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Ghosts

by Ana Silvera

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Single 1 from The Fabulist, releases April 22, 2022

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 ‘Ghosts’, and announces new album ‘The Fabulist’, produced with award-winning multi-instrumentalist Gerry Diver (BBC Folk Awards, Mercury Prize) and featuring stellar musicians including LA-based singer-songwriter Alan Hampton (Fiona Apple, Andrew Bird) and double bassist Jasper Høiby (Phronesis, Planet B).

Stylistically, ‘Ghosts’ repurposes the classic ‘ghost song’ of the English folk tradition to tell a deeply personal story: Ana’s witnessing of her teenage brother’s descent into psychosis over the course of a sweltering London summer: “I watched the faces of so many strangers/come ricochet through him like ghosts at a ball”.

Ana says of the track, “I wanted to describe the eerie experience of watching this person I felt so connected and close to suddenly slip from my grasp. It seemed as if my brother was a vessel inhabited by spirits, who were each fighting for their voices to be heard. Using a traditional form helped me to navigate these difficult memories, and that style is echoed in the folk sound-world of the arrangement, with instruments like acoustic guitar and fiddle as the foundation. In many ways, ‘Ghosts’ feels like the closest I’ve come to being able to tell my brother’s story in song”.

lyrics

Summer looked the same
As it ever did before
The grass cut close
As a barber’s throat
Wet diamonds in her jaw

Summer looked the same
As it ever did before
An August haze
A petrol glaze
A sleep walk to our door

Summer fell like lead
And pinioned to the bed
We lay like butterflies
Until our wings turned dry

Summer looked the same
As it always had till then
A bridal veil
A ship set sail
The dazzle of a green, green gem

And the night that wrote your name
Made a cast upon the dawn
Oh we didn’t see its hand
Move over the pages like a storm

Turn me like a light
Blind me to this sight
Circling my mind
Like scavengers at night

Summer turned its face
And it never looked the same
A broken bowl
A patchwork doll
A wind-up in its place

And you didn’t speak a word
As they led you through the door
You were dumbstruck by the ghosts
Who waltzed your body down the hall

And I watched the faces of so many strangers
Come ricochet through him like ghosts at a ball
A soft-footed priest with his eye to the steeple
My father, Our Saviour, a conquistador

And the summer stumbled by
But my love was still the same
Though this hope, pinned like a stolen brooch
Grew rusty in the rain

And I loved you to the bone
Far more than I could say
Though my arms held fast
I could not ask those weary bones to stay

Turn me like a light
Gather me from sight
Visions in my mind
An ever falling sky
Go down to the end
Where calla lilies bend
Roots that in the dark
Still hear his beating heart
And tendrils with blind sight
Still lean towards the light
In golden sorrow

credits

released January 20, 2022
Voice – Ana Silvera
Guitar – Adrian Lever
Violin, banjo, drums – Gerry Diver

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Ana Silvera London, UK

'Stunning...magical storytelling' -The Guardian

Ana Silvera is a London-born singer- songwriter and composer whose folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes are lyrical, intimate and emotive, works of ‘lavish, vivid imagination’ (Metro). ... more

anasilvera.com

discography

The Fabulist

Apr 2022
Early Frost feat. Alan Hampton

Mar 2022
Halos

Feb 2022
Ghosts

Jan 2022
Gift

Dec 2020
Light, Console Me

Nov 2020
Oracles

Jul 2018
Arcana - A Winter EP

Dec 2017
The Aviary

Mar 2012

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