In 2020, Dana Gavanski dropped her debut album’ Yesterday Is Gone. She also left quite an impression with her Wind Songs EP, on which she delivered irresistible covers of songs by the likes of King Crimson, Robert Wyatt, Judee Sill and Tim Hardin. With a voice that Bob Fish compared to Judy Dyble, he concluded his EP review, “Wind Songs doesn’t simply recreate old arrangements, it celebrates classic material, making it live for new generations.”
At the end of this month (29 April), she returns with ‘When It Comes’, an album of self-penned songs. With the album’s announcement came the first single and opening track, ‘I Kiss the Night’, on which she shared the following:
“The nocturnal and lulling atmospheres evoked by Dana’s song,” says Gaia, “had me design a video treatment that aims to represent a dreamscape, or, more precisely, the moment of drowsiness happening right before falling asleep.
“By entering the door of the liminal space between wake and asleep, the character erases the external world and enters within her brain, experiencing a maze made of layered visions, distorted perception of self, time and space, intrusive thoughts that range from playful – bizarre – uncanny sequences to reassuring memories, in the attempt to fall asleep and finally shut the door.”
Dana wrote the song whilst cat sitting alone in her friend’s apartment in Montreal: “It’s an ode to the night, learning to lean in to its magic, and the spookiness of solitude in a winter storm.”
The accompanying stop motion animation video was directed by Gaia Alari and features 1,700 hand-drawn frames, around 12 drawings per second.
Pre-order/save the album here: https://orcd.co/whenitcomes
Dana will be playing live this year, with a handful of UK in-stores right around release and a full tour in September, including EU dates. Ticket info here.
April
29th Brighton Resident In-store
30th Bristol Friendly Records in-store
May
2nd London Rough Trade East in-store
June
16th Birkenhead Future Yard
17th Edinburgh Hidden Door festival
September
12th London Moth Club
20th UT Connewtiz, Leipzig, DE
22nd Prachtwerk, Berlin, DE
23rd Theater der Wohngemeinschaft, Cologne, DE
24th Heppel & Ettlich, Munich, DE
27th Merleyn, Nijmegen, NL
28th Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
29th Cactus Club, Bruges, BE