Early frost

On Early Frost (release date 17 March 2022), the third single from forthcoming album The Fabulist, Ana Silvera duets with LA-based singer-songwriter and bassist Alan Hampton. The song tells the story of a couple living a seemingly picture-perfect life – marriage, a house, a perfectly tended garden – but ‘like a hidden fault on an iced-up lake / it’s the smallest things that can make it break’.

Ana says “Alan is an incredible singer-songwriter in his own right, but also well known for his harmony singer and double bass playing with artists including Fiona Apple and Andrew Bird. We recorded his vocals in the early days on the pandemic, with him recording from his house in LA and me in Copenhagen.”

Video conceived and co-directed by Liv Anastasia Ikkala & Ana Silvera

DoP - Liv Anastasia Ikkala ; additional shots by Ana Silvera and Jasper Høiby

The first release since her much-lauded ‘Oracles’ live album (Guardian Critics’ Pick 2018; “a rare commitment to art” - CLASH), singer-songwriter Ana Silvera releases ‘Early Frost’, a collaboration with LA-based singer-songwriter Alan Hampton (Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird) and the third single from new album ‘The Fabulist’. Produced with award-winning multi-instrumentalist Gerry Diver (BBC Folk Awards, Mercury Prize), the album also features stellar musicians including double bassist Jasper Høiby (Phronesis, Planet B).

Known for her lyrical, emotive alt-folk and bluegrass stylings, works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’ (Metro), Ana has helmed a number of tours and collaborations over the past decade with notable British contemporaries including Imogen Heap, Olivia Chaney, Jim Moray, Bill Laurance (Snarky Puppy), Maya Youssef, Mara Carlyle, Max de Wardener and Aidan O’Rourke (LAU).

As a solo artist, she has drawn packed houses to top venues including Purcell Room, (South Bank Centre), Liverpool Philharmonic, Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), festivals Folk Alliance International, Iceland Airwaves and SXSW and composed commissions for Royal Ballet, Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction’ and Estonian Television Girls Choir.

‘The Fabulist’ releases on Friday 22nd April. Ana will be touring the UK in support of ‘The Fabulist’ throughout May ‘22, alongside Jasper Høiby (double bass), Marc Michel (guitar) and drummer / multi-instrumentalist Chris Vatalaro (Sam Amidon, Bat for Lashes). The London launch will be at Bush Hall on Thursday 19th May.

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