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xana

About Me

EP AVAILABLE NOW! Available online at www.cdbaby.com/cd/xanaXana will sing for you. Citing McGyver and chocolate soy milk as two seminal influences, this millennium minstrel weaves voice, acoustic riffs and chords into melodic poems of love, politics, traditional folk and experimental sound. Xana is currently playing solo shows in venues around Melbourne.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 01/12/2005
Band Website: This is it!
Band Members:

Influences: Jack Kerouac, Emmylou Harris, Pippi Longstocking, Browny and Sonny, The West Wing (i heart cj), Brie and avocado, old coins, the original nintendo, disintegrating sidewalk posters, making bread, serving the bread, conversation, sandalwood, Eddie Vedder, Princess Smartypants, smaller versions of things, patching holes in my pants, Ben Harper, Woodie Guthrie, Pixar film marathons, Chopin, Bob Dylan , comets, Laurie Anderson, Jeff Lang, Kaki King, Gotye, olives, Anais Ninbeing so easily influenced
Sounds Like: "Xana injects sweetness and hope into all she sings and writes, as if her songwriting and vocal performance were no different than having a cup of tea with the lady in a cafe somewhere." - TheDwarf.com"Gorgeous! I can't wait to here more!" - Kate Miller Heidke"Xana knows how to take an audience on a wild emotional ride - she has great rapport with her listeners and the courage of direct, compelling honesty in her lyrics and performance." - Robert Davidson, Topology
Record Label: N/A
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

EP REVIEW thedwarf.com

Click on this link to see a  review of my EP. http://www. thedwarf. com. au/nd/albumreviews/xana_xana   :)
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:33:00 GMT

EP OUT SOON

Hello, This is just a shout out to say that I have just uploaded 2 newly produced songs that will be on my upcoming self titled EP, Chemical Reaction and Come on Home- (a song I've had up here for a ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:17:00 GMT

totally rad news

Hey this is just a quick shout out to say that I'm featured on this weeks Triple J Unearthed Jukebox! It's totally exciting, and my face fades into view when you click on my name. Very sexy, the fadin...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:15:00 GMT

The Albatross

L'Albatros Souvent, pour s'amuser, les hommes d'équipagePrennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers. À peine le...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:10:00 GMT

just a few illusions

Its frosty cold tonight as I sit at my humming computer with my feet tucked inside a cardboard shoe box in a desperate attempt to keep warm, and my little dog snoring behind me. Its been a wonderful p...
Posted by on Thu, 04 May 2006 22:13:00 GMT

Tea, dishes and straw hats

I was discussing with a friend the other day the abundance of tiny zen/Buddhist influenced products available in stores these days. Pocket sized Buddhas, bonsai trees you need a magnifying glass to vi...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:37:00 GMT

dust and light and gravity

i saw a galaxy of love, spinning softly in your eyes. and every time i go to find a star i realise that everthing is changing that's the nature of this place from the edges of the universe,&nbs...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:30:00 GMT

category 4

Ah well here i am again. treading the vast desert of the empty page. i always end up back here. this same place. but mirages always pop up and keep me hopeful. and each word is a step away from the l...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:26:00 GMT

gecko

Its Saturday night tonight and most people i know are doin something absurdly merry like going out to dinner of drinkin or dancing. However i Xana lone ranger chambers remain in my little un...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:31:00 GMT

Bax not Brisbane

Tonight i made my way into the valley to see a band. I thought it would be a really wonderful thing to do. I put on my jeans and a crips white bonds shirt and even made my hair all spiky like astro bo...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:00:00 GMT