“This is a nice record, folks. Tracked to 2″ w/ the creamiest most sexiest vintage German hardware known to man. Check it out!” says Jonathan Herrera, one of the bass players on “Spice, Gold and Tales Untold”, who constitute the focus of this BASS MAGAZINE coverage on a record rich in bass talent! “The record […]
It’s wonderful to escape the limitations of tags, compartments and styles, and simply enjoy music for what it is, help it where it wants to go! That says much about Luca Piotto, the writer of this review for Metalhead.it who introduced “Spice, Gold and Tales Untold” to the mellow hearts of Italian metalheads. “Piuttosto molta […]
The Proglodytes published a very profound and sympathetic X-ray of Ana’s album, noting on its honesty and authenticity, its genre-defying content and varied emotional foundation. “Spice, Gold, and Tales Untold is an eclectic exploration of life and love, abounding with witty insights and philosophical musings. […] Her vocals are emotive and pure, and her guitar playing […]
“The album opens with jazzy guitar chords wafting in on an easterly wind. Electric bass and rimshot drumming add a gentle groove. We could be wandering through a Turkish bazaar. Almost immediately a voice breaks in. It is not the call of a merchant selling fruit to the locals or trashy trinkets to the tourists, […]
Later edit: The aprox. 44 mins. live performance is now available here on Youtube, and the album containing the songs is here on Bandcamp (Spice, Gold and Tales Untold) Ana is playing a virtual concert tomorrow, Sunday, Sep. 13 at 19:00 CET, in a small band formation, from the studio, together with Per Stadin (b.) […]
More and more, the Romanian press is starting to show an interest in Ana’s activity – after all, that is where she started off as an artist more than twenty years ago! “Era ediția în care câștiga locul I. Voce limpede, amprentă solidă în corzile vocale și coardele chitarei, niciun vicleșug la mijloc. Cânta exact așa cum era, adică autentică.” […]
Ana had the privilege of discussing with Linda Garett from Indie Music Women what it means to be an independent female musician in nowadays reality, on the occasion of being featured as their Artist of the Day. There is much to be discussed on the subject of the artists’ independence in such times when the music […]
Singles Bar: “Soarele Meu” by Ana Patan A brand new release, right on time to celebrate the winter solstice, is “Soarele Meu”, a song in Romanian, with a light swing shuffle and a happy, easy groove about it. The quite insightful and dexteruous pen of Craig Bacon described it for the readers of Music Tap […]
Next song to be launched soon, from the upcoming album, is “Soarele Meu”. A samba-like groove with an optimistic statement that things will always get well again (“My sun will rise again”), in Ana’s mother tongue. Here’s a live video preview of it, recorded the other week in Berlin, at RadioDario, with Omeye Abbass-Yacoub on […]
The latest issue of Rock’n’Roll Magazine publishes an account of Ana’s performance at the Fuzz Guitar Show 2019, where pedal company EBS hosted a set of her latest compositions.
