LIKE THE NIGHT ITSELF | 17 JANUARY 2026 | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
1961, Sidney Poitier and Paul Newman play two jazz musicians in post-war Paris. Their guitarist - Gypsy, they call him - is unraveling. Addiction has eroded his relationships, his musicality, his sense of self. One morning, Newman’s character takes him down to the banks of the Seine to confront Fausto: once a great musician, now a pusher.
“I knew him,” Gypsy says quietly.
“The greatest of the flamenco guitarists.”
“He used to play like … like the night itself.”
I was drawn to the guitar at eight. By twelve, my mother was waiting up at midnight while I played blues and jazz bars. At fourteen, I was on my first international tour, and soon after I was opening shows for Tommy Emmanuel, crossing borders, seeing the world - all while carrying a fracture I didn’t yet understand.
That fracture widened. At twenty-one, I found myself in Paris, no longer playing my instrument, my life in pieces. Like Gypsy, I had drifted far from the thing that once anchored me.
Fast forward to now. A week ago, Tommy and I spoke about how the past decade - all of it - was not wasted time, but preparation. The slow construction of a human being and a musician with something worth saying, the capacity to say it, and the resolve to follow through. That opening line you hear at the start of ‘Like The Night Itself’ isn’t decorative. It marks a departure - from vocation, from self - and a return. A near end, and a reclamation of the place I’m meant to stand. It’s why this is the first song of the album. And why the video, shot on the banks of the Seine at night this past summer, exists at all.
The song was released January 1. What follows is the video below - and, in time, perhaps a deeper exploration of what Like The Night Itself has come to signify: a refinement of artistry toward something more majestic, and an electric current found equally in muse and in music.
Video: Like The Night Itself | Kyran Daniel
En Partenariat Avec | Larson Bros. Guitars
Cinématographie | Boubkar Benzabat
Tourné le 27 Août 2025 | © 2026 Kyran Daniel
