Disco Bambino Presents:"Dancing Without You."

feat. the vocals of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Nile Rodgers’ guitar.

June 26 marks the release of “Dancing Without You,” Disco Bambino’s original composition featuring the vocals of Sophie Ellis-Bextor and the guitars of disco titan Nile Rodgers.

The track has a lush orchestration, an opening monologue in Italian about theater and stage lights, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “character” dancing on her own. And while, despite the dominating 1970s soundscapes, the first verse has some ’80s synth-pop and ’90s dance hints (the phrase “You’re so long gone but you’re in my heart” can make you think, melodically, of “You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul” and “Desperately Seeking Someone Willing to Travel”), the rest has the lush opulence of a late-1970s disco hit with some Broadway (or West End) theatricality. When the beat picks up in the pre-chorus and Ellis-Bextor sings, “put on my makeup, a fashionable fool, mascara running when I think of you,” you’ll hear the assertiveness of an “I Want” musical number; the phrase “they shine / like diamonds when I move” presents …