Ana Caravelle

Enter Ana Caravelle (real name, Anahita Navab), a 22 year-old composer,

vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and lifetime Los Angeles resident. With her

refreshingly genuine musical outlook, Ana takes the influence of her city

environments and turns them into something completely different -lush,

organic and melodic gardens for listeners to plant their

ears into.Basic Climb, Ana’s debut album and the second full length release for

Non Projects is a culmination of her first five years of classical harp

training and sees her take musical flight with comprehensive and adroit

songwriting and arranging skills. Produced by her beau Ryan York (also known

as Asura) and recorded at Alpha Pup label head Daddy Kev’s studio The Echo

Chamber,Basic Climb showcases Ana’s soulful harp playing and luxuriant voice

matched with her rich instrumental arrangements for voice, strings, winds

and percussion.



Ana’s musical journey began with the piano at age 5, which inevitably led to

more instrumental undertakings ­harmonium, guitar, musical saw,

glockenspiel, and most importantly harp and her own voice have since become

standard partners in her musical ways. Alongside discovering new timbres and

colors to work with in all off these varied tools, Ana cites influence in such

assorted musical stalwarts as Nina Simone, Björk, Sigur Rós, Beirut, Múm, Amiina and

lastly Joanna Newsom, with the latter strongly inspiring Ana to go forth with

her harp playing and arranging. While the songs featured in Basic Climb date

back to over a year ago, the crux was written and arranged in her final

undergraduate year at UCLA, where she recently earned a B.A. in Psychology. Her participation in clinical work with children ignites the playful and vibrant quality that is scattered throughout the arrangements. In addition to academic psychological studies affecting her works, Ana also draws inspiration from her own journal entries by turning static words on paper into flourishing and opulent vocal runs that resonate throughout

listeners’ bodies.



Although surrounded by the inspiring figures of the current Los Angeles beat

scene (Ana was featured on Asura’s stunning debut and has performed at Low

End Theory alongside Ryan), Ana provides us with a very powerful foray into

her own entirely acoustic musical world with Basic Climb, achieving a much

sought-after grand intimacy with an unparalleled style of large-scale yet

warm and inviting aural surroundings.