Phew 198111/28/2023 In 2005, Ana released her solo debut, The Lighthouse - a self-recorded collection of spare, elegant experiments in electronic indie-pop on Chicks on Speed’s label. Ana returned to song writing and performing with The Raincoats after Kurt Cobain invited them to tour with Nirvana shortly before his untimely death in 1994, and they released an album Looking in the Shadows in 1995 on DGC and Rough Trade. She wrote music and collaborated with choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis on Shouting out loud and Undine and the Still performed at Sadlers Wells, Riverside Studios, ICA and Almeida Theatre, London, and she wrote the music for Channel 4 film Freefall in 1988. After The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984, Ana collaborated with The Go-Betweens on their single Bachelor Kisses and she formed the band Roseland together with This Heat’s Charles Hayward. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing. The Raincoats have offered creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists, cited as a formative influence by Kurt Cobain, Carrie Brownstein, Bikini Kill, and Sex Pistols’ John Lydon. Across four daring full-length records, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it to be-an act of raw expression, not any one sound. I’ll make music with Phew to express these feelings of uncertainty, fear and… hope!”Īna da Silva is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. Throughout this time, a great weight fell heavily on all of us - fear, mismanagement, injustice, physical and mental pain and massive loss. Looking inwards can be rewarding, but isolation can be lonely. “Time flows and the world is ill and worried. Life changes on its own, without us even knowing it.įluctuation and changing without trying to change, thinking about it.” One minute I'm wondering if I can express what I'm feeling at this moment as a musician, and the next I'm worrying about a cat with a skin disease. Once we are in the past, we can talk about events as we please. I try to imagine what will be left when the event is over. The more I try to talk about what is currently going on, the more I can't find the words. Sleeping, eating, working, feeling anger, sorrows, delight and then fears. “I repeat my daily life before and after the lockdown. Pairing artists in disparate locations who cannot work together in “traditional” ways, the Distant Pairs series examines the collaborative process, methods of working, and partnership amidst these constrained conditions. Composed through files exchanged files via email, both artists are familiar with working across distance with a sense of discovery that will be familiar to Raincoats fans-a sense of poetry and inquisitiveness, of intuition and invention, of new languages taking shape.ĭuring the Fall, 2020, ISSUE is commissioning artists to produce collaborative work at a time when the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has drastically impacted their' ability to travel and perform, and altered the nature of collective work and performance. Ana and Phew contributed pointillist bits of spoken word in each other’s native tongues of Portuguese and Japanese, reflecting on isolation, friendship, and nature. In 2018, Ana and Phew collaborated on their debut release, Island, a bracing odyssey in industrial noise, absorbing textures, tactile rhythms-a showcase of each artist's highly developed and dynamic compositional style. Friday, October 30th, ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaborative work from legendary artists and cult punk icons Ana da Silva and Phew.
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