New Yorker Ana Silvera has announced details of her debut album ‘The Aviary’ (Mar 12th) it was recorded with Maxim Moston (Antony & The Johnsons / Rufus Wainwright). Watch the video for her debut single the elegant restraint of ‘Hometown’ here:
Hometown from Ana Silvera on Vimeo.
She’s also announced the following UK shows:
Live
2nd Feb – The Junction, Cambridge, co-headline w’ Nick Mulvey (ex-Portico Quartet) – Tickets
7th Feb – The Latest Music Bar, Brighton – Tickets
16th Feb – Bedford’s, Norwich – Info
26th Feb – The Roundhouse, London – (main stage with the Estonian Television Girls Choir and Imogen Heap) – Tickets
27th Feb – Sage, Gateshead – (main stage with the Estonian Television Girls Choir and Imogen Heap) – Tickets
3rd March – The Cellar, Oxford
8th March – The Firestation, Windsor
Recorded in New York with Maxim Moston (Antony and the Johnsons, Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed), and produced by Brad Albetta (Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson) in New York and Ray Singer (Peter Sarstedt, Joan Armatrading, Japan) in London.
Following her debut single 7″ ‘Hometown’ launched in March 2011 to a packed house at the Southbank’s Purcell Room, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ana Silvera, releases her long-awaited first album ‘The Aviary’ on KMC Recordings. My Brightest Diamond and Rufus Wainright are clear references in the music and drawing on a love of story-telling, and for the classical music she grew up with, Ana sings of deeply personal experiences alongside mythical and historical tales of romance and tragedy. Drama, complexity, exuberance, life, death – they’re all here in the beautiful melodies and heart-warming, sometimes bone-chilling lyrics of this remarkable debut inspired by Ana’s own eventful life.
As a teenager, Ana regularly performed with the English National Opera before travelling the world, living for a stint in Ibiza under a fig tree, exploring the anti-folk movement in Berlin and most recently, forging exciting creative collaborations in Brooklyn with film makers, musicians and dancers. Constantly exploring various styles of music – singing in european jazz clubs, recording a brooding cover of the hit ‘Rosanna’ by 80’s band ‘Toto’ (listen here), and performing Britney Spears’ Womanizer’ in her live set – Ana continually adapts in her own way, all she is made curious by. Bjork, Fever Ray and Gillian Welch are particular current inspirations.
In February 2011, Ana wrote and performed a seven part song cycle with the Roundhouse Experimental Choir for three successive, sold out nights in the Roundhouse Studios entitled ‘Oracles’. Port Magazine premiered a short film (directed by Kate Church, formerly of the South Bank Show) documenting the making of this event which can be seen here. Subsequently, Ana has been invited back to the main stage of the Roundhouse for their 2012 Reverb Festival in February, performing alongside Imogen Heap.
