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Early Frost feat. Alan Hampton

by Ana Silvera

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Rob D This is an irresistible and beautifully told story in song, with Ana and Alan's voices complementing each other superbly. The more I discover of Ana Silvera the more I wish I had discovered her music earlier. Sounds like The Fabulist is going to be a real treat of an album. Favorite track: Early Frost feat. Alan Hampton.
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The third 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’, and announces new album ‘The Fabulist’, produced with award-winning multi-instrumentalist Gerry Diver (BBC Folk Awards, Mercury Prize).

‘Early Frost’, a duet with LA-based singer-songwriter and bassist Alan Hampton, 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’.

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You said an early frost
Or sudden sun
Can wilt the leaves or
Turn the bud

Like a hidden fault
On an iced-up lake
It’s the smallest things
That can make it break…

We built this house
In love and haste
Stoked the fire
And filled the grate

We painted this house
In blue and gold
Closed the blinds
And shut out the world

It was cool and quiet
It was blessed hush
I lent into the calm
And the calm was your touch

We sowed the garden
With laurel and rose
And one small tree
By the quarry road

And said one day
On this porch we’d sit
In the shadow of an oak
Grown tall as a ship

We kept this house
In toil and trust
Burnished the beams
And blew out the dust

With our china plates
And our crystal bowls
Our light-up globe
To show us the world

But the world kept knocking
Kept calling for me
I hid in the shadow
Of that small oak tree

From the search and the wonder
And the wild in me
From the longing and laughter
And the call to be free

You kissed me softly
On the head
And brought me tea
And toast in bed

Spring was creeping
In through the cracks
Promising green
And turning new tracks

I smiled and said
It’ll be alright
But the words rang hollow
And I smiled too bright

It was blowing a gale,
To kingdom come
Oak’s branches were sailing
In the morning sun

And the world kept knocking
And calling my name
And I knew that I couldn’t
Keep turning away

You said an early frost
Or sudden sun
Can wilt the leaves or
Turn the bud

Like a hidden fault
On an iced up lake
It’s the smallest things
That can make it break

It’s the smallest things
That can make you…

credits

released March 20, 2022
from The Fabulist, releases April 22, 2022
Voice, Wurlitzer – Ana Silvera
Voice – Alan Hampton
Violin, guitar, mandolin, banjo – Gerry Diver
Double bass – Jasper Høiby

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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

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