{"title":"Dana Gavanski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDana Gavanski's debut album \"Yesterday Is Gone\" is out on March 27th. The album, recorded and produced by Sam Gleason and Mike Lindsay, features the singles \"Good Instead of Bad\", \"One By One\", and the BBC 6 Music A-listed track \"Catch\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Vancouver to a Serbian family, Dana always had a passion for singing. While studying in Montreal, she discovered her ex-partner's guitar and decided to re-learn how to play. Despite having parents involved in film and painting, Dana was drawn towards making music after spending a summer as her father's assistant in a hotel-turned-office. This experience solidified her desire to pursue music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExperience Dana Gavanski's unique sound with her captivating debut album that showcases her talent as both a singer and songwriter.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"late-slap","title":"Late Slap","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere’s a party in Dana Gavanski’s head and everyone’s invited- well, kind of. \u003ci\u003eLate Slap\u003c\/i\u003e, Gavanski’s third album, gives voice to the highs and lows of the mindscape in all its joys and terrors, injecting some much needed playfulness into the process of writing about emotionally hard things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGavanski fleshed out the demos with her band before taking the album—and the band—to Mike Lindsay (Tunng, LUMP) at MESS, the producer’s studio in Margate. The five-piece, which includes Gavanski’s fellow co-producer James Howard (Rozi Plain, Alabaster dePlume), tracked the record over five days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Ears Were Growing,’ encapsulates the eighties zeal of Talking Heads or Klaus Nomi, pitching fantasy against reality through a playful lyric about negative self-talk, the domestic interior, and their way of creating a kind of Stockholm Syndrome equal parts comfort and fear. ‘Ribbon,’ is a tender song about the recent loss of a childhood friend, looks at the world through the lens of grief, marveling at the way the familiar suddenly loses its meaning and shape. The gently propulsive ‘Song for Rachel’ approaches the same subject matter from another angle, finding release in the simple, straight-to-the-point chorus refrain of “Cause’ you’re gone\/ it’s just that I’m lost\/ and I don’t know how to feel.” Not knowing how to feel, Gavanski shows us, is as valid and important a feeling as any other. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLate Slap’s\u003c\/i\u003e unsettling artwork places the album themes in plain sight, Gavanski’s ambiguous, animated expression and screened-out black eyes bearing witness to what might be a revolving exhibition of contradictory images: cute play-fighting kittens giving way to pictures of suffering and war, golden hours dissolving into lost hours never to be reclaimed. But\u003ci\u003e Late Slap \u003c\/i\u003eis also what its title suggests - a sudden jolt, a shock to the system that seeks to reconnect with the messy flesh-and-thought humanity of simply being human. The album’s tension between cynicism and trust, openness and despair, melodrama and silliness, ultimately invites the listeners in (throw your coat on the bed over there, stranger). It welcomes you at the door, and beckons you to find tenderness in a world doing its best to desensitize us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Full Time Hobby","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50402428911947,"sku":"2171896","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50402428977483,"sku":"2171897","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50402428649803,"sku":"2171895","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/DANA_GAVANSKI_LATE_SLAP_DIGI_COVER_3000x3000_ede11d19_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726544995"},{"product_id":"when-it-comes","title":"When It Comes","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited Copies on all formats come with a 4 Track Bonus CD 'Bouncing Ball'. There’s something mesmerising about the fingertips of Dana Gavanski. Conducting each note with a light gracefulness, they appear to dance whilst aiding their owner in expressing the stories behind each of her lighter-than-air tones. Stories which, on her new album \u003ci\u003eWhen It Comes\u003c\/i\u003e, may never have been heard if not for healing ‘lost’ vocal cords and a lesson in taking the rough with the smooth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In many ways this record feels like it is my first,” Dana tells. “When I could use my voice, I had to focus so there is an urgency and greater emotional trajectory than before… it’s very connected to vocal presence, which extended into an existential questioning of my connection to music. It felt like a battle at times, which I frequently lost.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArriving where introversion and extroversion meet, \u003ci\u003eWhen It Comes\u003c\/i\u003e is Dana’s most vulnerable record to date. A Canadian-Serbian artist unafraid of extremes, she seamlessly blends her love of music from the 50s-70s with mythology. Led by instinct in its purest form, Dana’s latest chapter is an ode to the voice as an instrument – its power, and how intricately it can deliver words to tug at, and tie knots in, every heartstring. “Words can be taken quite literally, but to me, a lot of the time, they are pivots. They point in a direction but don’t necessarily stay there,” she says.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in London, the original ideas for the record were played out on Dana’s toy Casiotone. Returning to Capitol K’s Total Refreshment Centre (TRC) with partner James Howard, the pair co-produced the songs together and felt very much at home. “James has an effortless musicality and we work together so well. The TRC is a special place, like a community centre,” she recalls. “It’s very understated but important to the people who come through it. It’s a rehearsal space, a recording studio, and there are a handful of music studios.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with music box sweetness, ‘I Kiss The Night’s twinkling piano melody paves the way for the baroque Wurlitzer-like nursery rhyme of ‘Bend and Fall’ and mystical lullaby ‘Under The Sky.’ Alongside humour and caricature (‘The Reaper’), mythological romance and spirituality (‘Knowing to Trust’) and idiosyncratic carnival arpeggio grooves (‘Indigo Highway’), the squelchy staccato and subtle jazzy flecks of ‘The Day Unfolds’ and tension release of ‘Letting Go’ dazzle like bokeh in a Nick Drake haze. The autumnal hymnal of ‘Lisa’ meanwhile, was one of the first, more fictional tracks written for the record, from the viewpoint of the sea, watching the protagonist pass by day after day, offering a metaphorical reflection on the natural world around us. “We don’t realize we are surrounded by all this beauty; we’re shut up inside, rushing to get to work, buying books online without ever leaving home. 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Though excited by the other elements of a song introduced during production, Dana and Mike were keen on ‘finding essential things, not overblowing, keeping things bare and letting the elements speak for themselves’. Not that the sheer variety of sounds and instruments didn’t overwhelm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album shapeshifted as it passed through the hands of Dana, Sam, and Mike, taking on different tastes, feelings, and visions. When Dana performed the songs with a band, they found new form again. She was intrigued by performers like David Bowie and Aldous Harding, who inhabit different personalities on stage, physically tuning themselves to their music. ‘\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut a three-month trip to Serbia in autumn 2018 really pushed performance to the forefront of Dana’s mind. She took singing lessons to learn how to sing with the resonance that defines traditional Serbian song. Stirred by the bombast of fifties, sixties, and seventies music, including the high-energy kafana, or café music, as rooted in expressive pouts as it is vocal resonance, the trip incited a yearning to completely inhabit herself on stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStood on a crowded train last spring, Dana sang the Macedonian song Jano Mome to an audience of cheery Scottish ladies. The moment, brief but beautiful, lays bare Dana’s craving for live spontaneity. But it also reflects her injection of stylish drama and vivid emotion into the folk landscape that inspires her, from contemporary singers H Hawkline and Julia Holter, to stalwarts Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Connie Converse, and Judee Sill. Expressive urges run all through \u003ci\u003eYesterday Is Gone\u003c\/i\u003e. Moments of beguilement splinter a backdrop of tenderly picked guitar, bass, synth, and poppier elements, which commune to produce her own kind of wall of sound. Each component is meticulously placed, yielding a deeply sincere response to the chaos of human emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Often we have to go a little far in one direction to learn something about ourselves,’ Dana says. The months of solitary writing and self-doubt testify to this, but they’ve led to Yesterday Is Gone: an optimistic, steely-eyed gaze into the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Full Time Hobby","offers":[{"title":"Orange | LP","offer_id":50498707554635,"sku":"1084592","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50498707718475,"sku":"1084593","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498708046155,"sku":"1084594","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/18a9be9b-2461-4547-b9d8-7c7ed3a919ba_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727754694"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_2457dd52_thumbnail_4096_8ff9ee8b-984f-455b-b8fd-65945f22382c.jpg?v=1726544958","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/dana-gavanski.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}