Dana Gavanski
★★★ When It Comes FULL TIME HOBBY. CD/DL/LP/MC
Ethereal second album from Canadian-Serb singer-songwriter. When It Comes
drifts like twigs in a stream; its meditative atmosphere sounds as if Jane Weaver were fusing France’s Emmanuelle Parrenin with mid-period Stereolab at their most reflective. Indigo Highway, the sole up-tempo song, suggests a familiarity with Gallic ’80s electro-pop duo Elli & Jacno yet filters this through a folk-informed perspective. Last year, Dana Gavanski followed up her debut album Yesterday Is Gone with Wind Songs – a covers EP including King Crimson’s I Talk To The Wind, Macedonian folk staple Jano Mome and songs by Chic, Tim Hardin and Judee Sill. Such magpie-mindedness may reflect her roots: being of Serbian extraction, having lived in Canada and a subsequent relocation to London. Now, there’s a cohesiveness both tonally and stylistically.
When It Comes is a mood piece on which Gavanski appears to chronicle living through a waking dream. Kieron Tyler