Ana Silvera releases ‘Hometown’ and plays live at the Purcell Room

Date: 21st January 2010

ARTIST: Ana Silvera
TITLE: Hometown
DISTRIBUTION: digital inc iTunes & Bandcamp
LABEL: Mirabeau
RELEASE DATE: 11 March 2010
FORMATS: 7” vinyl, digital download
ONE LINE: velvet vocals, baroque tinged lyrics and stunning strings and piano

LISTEN: http://soundcloud.com/ana-silvera/hometown-debut-single

http://soundcloud.com/ana-silvera/letter-from-new-york

VIDEO: http://www.anasilvera.com/video/

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7″ & Digi

A: Ana Silvera – Hometown

B: Ana Silvera – Letter From New York

How did your hometown make you feel this Christmas? Old haunts, past lovers and faces you’d rather forget?  For her long awaited debut single, Ana Silvera has rendered that weirdly emotional push/pull of familiarity into an achingly beautiful love song to her own hometown of London. 

With her richly evocative voice, Ana takes on the persona of an unnamed body whose eyes are now ‘food for fishes/served on sea dishes’ lying at the bottom of the Thames, singing to us who are still earthbound: “I wanted to suggest that death can perhaps be as much a liberation as a tragedy, that there may be more than one side to that tale, as sad as it may seem at first.”

Maxim Moston who plays on and orchestrated ‘Hometown’ (violinist with Antony and the Johnsons and a renowned arranger in his own right) felt immediate affinity with this story-telling aspect of Ana’s songs. ‘They channel the great line of lieder and chanson…her music flows from such a deep and natural spring that upon first listen I felt like I had know and loved these songs for a very long time’

The video directed by New York based Ryan Foregger (Ben Kweller, My Brightest Diamond) conjures up the eerie yet tender story, as Ana sings from the waters to her bereft lover. Her lyrical style invokes well-trodden streets, farewell kisses and rivers that exert their hold on you long after the Christmas presents are put away. This is one Hometown guaranteed to leave you wanting a return visit.



The single’s B side, Letter From New York, is the culmination of an online correspondence through her blog between Ana and her fans in the UK: “New York is a kind of ‘mirror city’ to my hometown of London, but as a foreigner you become hyperaware of its strange quirks – the 2 dollar psychics, the strangely named churches, the million nail parlours. The song is also a straightforward love song, yearning for the one over the sea”.

Featuring renowned bluegrass violinist Antoine Silverman, the song builds to a intense contusion of strings and vocal harmonies before ceding finally into a poignant invitation: ‘I have made myself an island/but I don’t mind if you come ashore.’

2010 will see much more from this uniquely talented singer songwriter who’s spent the last year holed up in New York finishing her first studio album with stellar support from producers Ray Singer (Armatrading, Hardy) Brad Albetta (Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson) and Maxim Moston (Antony and the Johnsons, Keren Ann).

The fruit of all that that studio work will be released this year but it’s in the business of live performance where Ana really comes into her own. Having enthralled audiences on guitar, piano and vocals at venues such as London’s Roundhouse and New York’s Rockwood Music Hall, Ana will launch her first single on 11th March 2010 at the Southbank Centre’s famous Purcell Room.  Join Ana and the Santiago String Quartet and for a trip to their ‘Hometown’, will it change the way you see yours?



Background information



“A songsmith whose music simply aches beauty,” (Time Out), “A major talent in the offing…sublime”(Music Week) “extraordinary artistic ability” (South Bank Show), is just some of the praise being heaped on London born, New York based singer songwriter Ana Silvera who’s will launch her debut single with an elaborate performance at London’s legendary Purcell Room on 11th March 2010.

Ana’s ability to weave intense, poetical story-telling into hauntingly tender melodies saw her proclaimed recently as “charismatic, dramatic and full of an explosive energy that simply can’t be bottled up” (The Last Broadcast), with a lush, intimate sound that is fast gaining recognition amongst the New York/London contemporary songwriter scene and beyond.

Writing songs inspired by everything from her own life experiences to those of a starlet in war-torn Paris, a biblical and murderous Salome, an Irish choirboy and a dead poet’s wife, the forthcoming album promises to be an intimate account of her own – and many other vivid characters’ lives and loves.


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