So, we wondered, can it really be nearly two decades since the last grace Jones release?
“Yeah, almost, isn’t it? I don’t count but when you say two decades… mmm… I think it would be more a decade-and-a-half but I don’t know since I’m not counting. I don’t count but other people do. You might be right. It might make the Guinness book of records for the longest gap between albums.” But there is a timelessness about the fact that even though you haven’t made a record for however many years it just sounds like it fits into the modern world – your voice and rhythm hasn’t aged at all. “Well I don’t try to keep up. I think that’s what it is. If you don’t try and keep up you don’t sound like you’re trying to keep up, which would be wrong You just sound like yourself, which should sound like the moment. And it was important that we didn’t work to some industry formula of what the Grace Jones sound is. “We just found what we were looking for, all the musicians found their way, and, followed where it seemed to be going. Followed where my voice was taking the music and where the musi
