Born in Vancouver to a Serbian family, Dana Gavanski has always harboured a desire to sing. In her final year of university in Montreal, she picked up the guitar left by her ex-partner and decided to re-learn.
Dana just released the title track from her upcoming album, Yesterday Is Gone, out March 27th. The song highlights her delicate, yet expressive vocals with understated, intricate instrumentation.
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Set in Montreal’s iconic Metro, with its colourful, modernist 1967 architecture, Dana Gavinski’s song “Yesterday is Gone” became an ode to the passage of time in this underground world. In the Metro time and space are distorted; a constant state of arrivals and departures signalling a state of nostalgia and longing — married here with the playful, halting 7/4 meter of the song.
“Yesterday Is Gone” is more of a straight pop song than the others on the album,” says Gavanski. “It’s about the intractability and muddiness of time passing. At the time I wrote the song, I was super into 60s pop music and the idea of what makes a classic song classic. I was toying between being more obvious in my lyrics and progressions while still tending to feelings hard to describe.”