Name: BarryNet Message Board
Date/Time: 7/9/2021 9:39 PM
Subject: DJ Claptone teams up with Barry Manilow

"DJ Claptone teams up with Barry Manilow" by Conor Brummell
BUZZ.ie, 08 July 2021

The mysterious DJ and producer Claptone has announced his forthcoming third album called Closer. The 14 track album is set for release on the 12th of November via Different Recordings /PIAS, and it will feature a string of collaborators and pop icons including Barry Manilow, Seal and Ireland's own James Vincent McMorrow ... The album has been three years in the making and shows off a natural development in sound for Claptone. Closer was co-produced by Stuart Price, the three-time Grammy-winning electronic musician, DJ, songwriter, and record producer who has collaborated with artists such as Madonna, The Killers, Dua Lipa and Pet Shop Boys ... Claptone also enlists the help of some fresh and exciting names such as Mayer Hawthorne, Mansionair, APRE, Dizzy, SPELLES, Lau.Ra, Two Another and long-time Claptone collaborator, Nathan Nicholson, ex-singer of The Boxer Rebellion. The most intriguing and surprising name to pop up on the album though has to be American Pop icon and showman Barry Manilow. It came about when Claptone heard Manilow speaking on a chatshow stating that his "favourite act was some guy named Claptone." Claptone soon got in contact and asked the music legend to collaborate and before long, the pair collaborated on a track that Manilow wanted - which was that “he was looking for a Dusty Springfield/Pet Shop Boys moment”. That moment has now arrived, with Barry Manilow featuring on standout album track, "Nobody."