Ana Caravelle
Location:
Topanga Canyon, California, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
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.
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