Chic - I'll Be There (Starring Karlie Kloss)

Having kept busy these past couple years with collaborations with the likes of Daft Punk and Disclosure. Nile Rodgers has broken the 23 year chain with the return of disco-funk group Chic. Collaborating with the Martinez Brothers, the legendary band shared their new single “I’ll Be There” alongside an accompanying Inez & Vinoodh directed clip starring supermodel Karlie Kloss.

Taking to his website, Rodgers talks about the background of the song claiming it was taken from an early session for a Sister Sledge song. Continuing he notes the nostalgia induced whilst listening to them and how personal events inspired the albums themes. “Four years ago I was stricken with very aggressive cancer and I wasn’t sure how much time I had left. I decided the album’s concept would be about time and I’d feature as many people from the lifespan of CHIC that I could on it.”
Maintaining the theme of time, the video was released today because “it’s the vernal equinox – when day and night are of equal length. But in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, there will also be a total solar eclipse… so I’ll be releasing the record at the exact start of that celestial event, in the country and city where they set Greenwich Mean Time – London, England.”

Watch the video above and stay tuned for the release of their forthcoming album It’s About Time.