Ana Never
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Topic: Ana Never
Posted By: AstralliS
Subject: Ana Never
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 05:45
Ana Never, a band from Subotica (Vojvodina, Serbia) exists since spring
2002. Shaped in a spirit of friendship and sensibility, it emerged out
of exploration and experience of music and life of its three members,
Srdjan Terzin (guitar), Dejan Topic (guitar) and Goran Grubisic (drums),
who were friends since they were children. Inspired by music they
listened to and motivated by their intimate emotions and fears, they
started creating music which represents an unpretentious trial of
multidimensional expression of emotions, thoughts and visions. It is a
drift from decadence, what can be found in emotional and intellectual
life of in these people in small scale, as well as in a more general
sense, in the field of spirituality and life in general. Aware of their
(lack of) qualities, but also deeply aware of the success that this
longing for affirmation (of themselves, as well as of the, so called,
artistic truth) brings, they did, after all, succeed in realizing
themselves as a band, despite the resignation, defeatism and apathy that
defines these souls from the Pannon mud.
After a year of their existence as Ana Never, Ivana Primorac (on bass)
had joined them. This refined the content of their music, sublimated
them as a band into an (now not so fragile) esthetic reference. Not long
after that Ivan Ckonjevic joined the band, as the third guitarist. This
completed the group and crystallized the soundscape of their music in
that time. Back then they have been working on the music for A Diary of a
Morphinist, a theater play based on a Csat Geza novel, directed by
their friend Bane Filipovic. As a integral part of the consort, Ana
Never performed whenever A Diary of a Morphinist is played…
With the help of their friends, they recorded the lo fi material for the
first album, in Subotica, in July of year 2005. They didn’t quite
succeed in their wish to sublime what they have started. What they have
recorded is a realistic, but also a bit pale, confirmation of the
floating anxiety and breaking down of a warmth that could exist in it
all, inside of us and around us. It is also a verification of their
longing for unstained recovery from it all. From year 2006 on their
shows, when there are technical possibilities, like steady part of a
band’s performance, there are video projections of band’s close friend
Branislav Filipovic little movies and video works.
On 1st April of year 2006 the first album is self-released. After the
release of their 1st record, Ivana simply moved away, geographically and
she moved away from a band, as well. And now she’s totally focused on
her solo project. So band nowadays works as a quartet + occasionally
video operator… And in spite of anxiety and everyday life, they still
have their quiet, but strong longing and insidious urge for making some
more songs, concerts, records, videos…
Knowing that there is no line between the existence and nonexistence of
Ana Never as a band, band lives in hope that in the end it will not
convert into a pitiful sole existence, and that it will continue living
as a thought about something small and beautiful. The sparkle of hope, a
grain of consciousness that every song could be the last one,
uncertainty in the damned tranquility, awaiting… Extending the steps
into the swamp of all-devouring self-abandonment…
In year 2011 Fluttery records practically and officially (re)released
Ana Never first record from 2006. Also band after some quiet hiatus and
in new line-up is working on few new records that will be released in
near future.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 07:48
Did you write the bio, Nikola?
Excellent stuff BTW, I'm taking this suggestion to the Post-Rock Team for evaluation.
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Posted By: AstralliS
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 08:07
Nope, I've just used the already written biography from the band's last.fm profile.
Glad you've liked it :)
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Posted By: angelmk
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 08:20
Awesome band!!! i saw them in live concert few years ago, pure beauty, they released new EP few days ago, you have my YES vote
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 08:24
Awesome, only 2 hrs & 35 minutes between the band suggestion and the team clearance!
I'm going to take the info from the bio in the OP and use it for PA's own bio, and add them today.
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Posted By: AstralliS
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 08:30
Hell yeah! :D Thank you!
By the way, that EP is the same EP they've released in 2006, so it's just re-released on Fluttery Records. I've talked recently to a drummer of the band and he confirmed that they are working on new material.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 09:18
Added. This "EP" is 50 minutes long, I added it as a studio album.
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Posted By: AstralliS
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 09:33
Thank you!
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 09:48
I'm a looking forward to your review.
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Posted By: AstralliS
Date Posted: March 09 2011 at 09:55
Actually I was about to do an interview, but surely I'll come up with a review too, just don't know when :D Preparing new volume of compilation and also planning to release a live collaboration between Consecration and Temple of the Smoke, they've done 3 years ago.
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