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Halos

by Ana Silvera

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"Haunting, lilting, yearning: Halos expresses a number of telling emotions that only grow stronger after every re-watch. Silvera holds one of the most distinguished voices around...." - Far Out Magazine

The second 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).

Ana writes of the song, "every time I perform this song it feels like a kind of prayer - I see the frozen furrows of winter fields and the birds wheeling in circles in the evening sky, or a pale morning mist descending on the dawn, like a benediction. It's a song addressed to and about my brother, about the altered air left in the wake of loss... about bravery and resolve... how remembering him is not done in broad sweeps but in those tiny, precious details - a ring of smoke, a strand of hair on a pillow, the slant of a certain light, a moment of tangible love amidst chaos".

lyrics

The birds are coming back
Like the circus does each year
These swallows -
Etching their lines in this picture
Waves above corn rows
Tides above furrows still frozen
Compass-drawn arrows
Circles drawn gold in the water
Halos

I came up early like twilight
Porous with sorrow
And the sun pulled its roots from the winter
Leaving us all alone -
Suddenly wide-eyed and fearless
I held your hand by the road
Watching the mist in the trees, like halos

And like these birds, my thoughts returning
Tombs in the last glow
Years passed, since you were turned in the grass
Beneath the weightless snow...

I’ll pluck the down from your pillow
Light you a cigarette
Watching the smoke making rings
Like halos

credits

released February 17, 2022
Voice, Wurlitzer, dulcitone – Ana Silvera
Guitar – Gerry Diver
Cello – Graham Coe
Flutes / Recorders – Rosanna Ter-Berg
Double Bass – Jasper Høiby
Drums – Pete Flood

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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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