Hana Pestle is an Atlanta-born, Los Angeles-based singer and producer who got her start singing acoustic covers at the farmer's market in Billings, the small Montana city where she grew up. The two singles she's released thus far this year—"Clay" and "Avalanche," recorded in collaboration with boyfriend Mike Tucker, aka Blood Diamonds—represent something of a fresh start for Prestle, now operating under the HANA moniker. Two years ago, following a five-year career touring the college coffee-house circuit as a folky singer-songwriter, she decided that her powerful, gymnastic soprano was better suited to a backdrop of sparse electronics, and set to work learning how to produce them herself.
