Daneshevskaya

Daneshevskaya is the songwriting project of New York City’s Anna Daneshevskaya Beckerman. Her artist name, also her great-grandmother’s last name, is a call back to her Russian-Jewish familial roots from her home base in New York. The name conjures a world of romance and unknowns, and as Daneshevskaya, Beckerman crafts artful, haunting songs that only ever reveal themselves halfway before she spins the wheel again.

On “Somewhere In The Middle”, the debut single for her new label home, Winspear, Beckerman approaches identity with a child-like curiosity. Backed by the production team of Model/Actriz’s Ruben Radlauer (drums, synths) and Hayden Ticehurst (guitar, synths), plus co-producer Artur Szerejko (bass) and Black Country, New Road’s Lewis Evans (saxophone), she delicately dissects the ways we often see ourselves and others in the harsh contrast of black and white.