Αναλυτική Περιγραφή
Daneshevskaya (Dawn-eh-shev-sky-uh), the project of New York’s
Anna Beckerman, writes songs steeped in the folklore of her own
personal history. Her artist (and real middle) name comes from her
Russian-Jewish great-grandmother, a person whose presence
she has always felt although their paths never crossed in real life.
Beckerman grew up in a musical family; her father is a music profes- sor, her mother studied opera and her own songs often feel spiritu- al, less so by any religious connotation and more as a hymn-like,
archival record of Beckerman’s own past, present and future.
Her first release on Winspear, Long is the Tunnel, contemplates how
the people you meet impact the pathway you travel. Through songs
like the poignant “Somewhere in the Middle,” the lilting “Challenger
Deep” and the surreal “Big Bird,” the EP paints a distinctive collage
between traditional songwriting and modern turns of phrase that
remain spellbound in the unadulterated luster of self discovery. The
seven songs read as both patchwork memories/diary entries and
elegies to those in her life. Co-produced by Ruben Radlauer and
Hayden Ticehurst of Model/Actriz and Artur Szerejko, the final
versions of these initial demos also saw contributions from Lewis
Evans of Black Country, New Road (saxophone), Maddy Leshner
(keys) and Finnegan Shanahan (violin), adding to the gleaming
instrumentation that makes each song sound like a world within
itself.
Long is the Tunnel is filled with hyperreal imagery that denotes a
form of escapism: two of the songs reference birds, which Becker- man describes as about being transfixed by something you can’t
take your eyes of while also being able to leave at will. Long is the
Tunnel prolongs this feeling of being completely immersed: by
desire, emotion, and fantasy, though the somber melancholy of her
love songs are often more manifestations to her internal self than
anyone else.
