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Ana Coman returns to Expirat on February 21 with her third album, “Tu nu o să mă uiți” (“You Won’t Forget Me”) in a BandBook event.

Take 2 ingredients: love and confusion. Place them in a cauldron, half black, half white, half in the present, half in the past. Stir. Love remains love, confusion blends with desire, emerging from nowhere, falling from somewhere in an imaginary future. Perhaps something is missing, however, as love stays in its place, only watching as the other creatures call a few friends to the dance: memories. They all mix, celebrating, half in the past, half in the present. Love remains love, approaching the three, but they push her away, laughing. It’s their dance, not hers. And in their dance, whoever they want enters: the cold, the sea, the pain, the blue eyes, the girls, the space, the one from before, the free one. Love has no place in their blend, but she keeps trying. She approaches, and the fire under the cauldron starts burning stronger and stronger; love is red, burning, burning with the need to dance with those who now seem to have merged into a single entity from all the mixing: within it.

Love approaches him, and above the fire that almost devours her, he withdraws, held cold by a past too long. So, there’s only one thing left to try: love throws herself over him and envelops him with her arms full of April, flowers, and the sea, choking him in an unfair fight until it seems she has won. But… now it doesn’t seem like love anymore. It seems to have transformed into something else… into something ruthless, into another beast: into madness. At the bottom of the cauldron, from the struggle, only madness remains, still pulsating and screaming towards him as he regains his strength: You won’t forget me, you won’t forget me.

You might have known Ana Coman from “Ana Are Cântec,” the segment on Radio Guerrilla. She started her musical training early, and her passion led her to make a name for herself. As a result, she has performed at several major festivals in the country, such as “Summer Well,” “Femei pe Mătăsari,” “Focus in The Park,” or “Electric Castle.” So far, she has experimented with various influences and expressed her storytelling talent with lyrics in both Romanian and English.

Cristina Lupu will open the night. She is an independent artist who writes love songs and enjoys singing them to others. “Sweet Amnesia” was born five years ago during sleepless nights with the guitar in her arms after work; a collection of mixed songs, sometimes playful, sometimes nostalgic, other times ironic, nervous, and noisy; a confessional one-woman show (voice/guitar), a peek through the keyhole into the world of an ordinary girl.

The release tour will continue in multiple cities, so check the list and buy tickets here.