Name: Yesterday Is Gone
Brand: Dana Gavanski

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BING 157

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-03-27

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Supplier US

Revol­ver

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Sales:8.875

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600197015711

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dana Gavanski

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Full Time Hobby

Dana 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".

Born 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.

Experience Dana Gavanski's unique sound with her captivating debut album that showcases her talent as both a singer and songwriter.

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The record is a co-production between Dana, Toronto-based musician Sam Gleason, and Mike Lindsay of Tunng and Lump. While Sam helped Dana bring out the tunes, Mike’s input marked ‘the beginning of developing a sound that was closer to what I had in my head’. 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. 

The 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. ‘

But 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. 

Stood 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 Yesterday Is Gone. 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.

‘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.

Yesterday Is Gone

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