Israeli Indie-Folk singer-songwriter VANNA
releases Let Me Fall, the second single of her 5-track debut EP High Hopes
released via Umami Records. This song explores the meaning of embracing the
vulnerability that one has while falling in love. The ambient production
centred around a finger picked acoustic guitar and pulsating bass lines exudes
a powerful calming feeling to listeners’ ears throughout the song.
Produced by Roy Avital of Tel Aviv based
indie-electronic trio Garden City Movement and mastered by Matt Colton (James
Blake, Muse, Coldplay), Let Me Fall is an ambient-folktronica song about
letting yourself fall completely in love, and embracing the vulnerability that
comes along with that. “When you fall in love, you expose yourself to getting
hurt. It’s an endless paradox. When you let someone enter your inner world,
you’re allowing them to gently break down your walls and then amazing things
can happen.”, shares VANNA, “I was scared that one day I’d lose this feeling,
and when it really happened I felt so alone trying to move on. This is the risk
you take for falling in love.”
VANNA builds up the energy from the verses to
the choruses, culminating in the bridge. “And all I could ever ask is to be
someone else / To know what I am for you to feel that you want me too / And I
wanna clear my head I don’t wanna be so scared / To leave all my fears behind /
To know you’re on my side”, she sings, before releasing all that tension in the
final instrumental drop.
VANNA tells the story about how she wrote the
song: “At one of my gigs I did a cover of RY X’s Deliverance, adding a minimal
beat and playing on my keyboard. When I finished singing the cover I kept going
with the beat and sang a new song, which became Let Me Fall. It was a special
moment. After I finished singing I told the audience that I felt like a rapper
improvising lyrics on the go. I said I hoped that someone in the audience
recorded it because this would become my new song.”
A music video accompanies the release of this
single, directed by award-winning independent filmmaker Matan Balalty and
French-Israeli artist Noémie Dahan, shot at the Beit Talal In Jaffa featuring
four professional contemporary dancers.
Born and raised in Tel Aviv, of Indian and
Iranian parents, VANNA grew up immersed in music, culture and diversity.
Creating music is her way of confronting and understanding the turmoil she feels
within herself, and she hopes her songs will touch others going through the
same struggle. She is also a graduate of the Rimon School of Jazz and
Contemporary Music.
Over the last 3 years, VANNA has been working
closely with producer Roy Avital on her debut EP High Hopes, delivering a
delicate fusion of indie electronic, pop, and folk influenced by artists like
RY X, Oscar and the Wolf, SYML and Sóley.
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