"Written from the precarious juncture of dreams & reality .. here is my newest single, The Cliff.
The Cliff is asking .. what is it like to reach the precipice & to then fall down? Our human journey is to never remain in one fixed state. We are destined to traverse every state & emotion. This question is universal & laden with metaphor .. This question is life itself.
This song is euphoria, acceptance, frustration, regret, longing, bitterness & envisioning, traversing the unknowns surrounding cliffs.
The Cliff is asking .. what is it like to reach the precipice & to then fall down? Our human journey is to never remain in one fixed state. We are destined to traverse every state & emotion. This question is universal & laden with metaphor .. This question is life itself.
This song is euphoria, acceptance, frustration, regret, longing, bitterness & envisioning, traversing the unknowns surrounding cliffs.
Cliffs can symbolize so much : dissatisfaction, sensationalism, hysteria, shock, peace, & the stuff of lore. We are forever clinging, grasping, savoring & ultimately, letting go. We are perpetually between living and dying - what we do know and what we don’t know; bored with the familiar, yet terrified by the abyss.
Someone once told me, before our parting, that everything is uncertainty. In the song itself, it is unclear whether or not you will fall off the cliff. Each song that I've been writing has a different expression of the same experience.
The Cliff is early 2000s pop meets 50s doo wop, and a bit Pink Floyd meets Elliot Smith with a tinge of country. I wanted the departure to the chorus to be mysterious and anticlimactic, as if to sound like something falling, or suspended in time. I wanted to remember the depth of the darkness that he took me to, and for listeners to feel every word.
I had the melody ideas percolating for The Cliff long before I released Elegy, but the song was not fully formed & recorded until later.
Sometimes, it happens in the early germination of a song being born, that we know exactly where we want everything to fall. Nothing is nebulous & everything about the song’s trajectory is known in the early stages of creation.
The imagery & metaphor of The Cliff have been sitting with me for a long while & I am eager to share"
Elegy was premiered by V13 Media and has been featured by Ones to Watch, Ditty TV, Americana UK, Paul Dettmann, Grateful Web, Dreamgaze Overtone on KXFM, Tinnitist, Out the Box Music, Soundsplore, BFF.FM, The Listen Local Show in San Diego, The Boston Chris Show, indie B & B podcast & Country and Northeastern on WERU.
Anna has opened for artists like Kacy Hill, Amythyst Kiah, The Arcadian Wild, People Museum, Jann Klose, Altan, The Michigan Rattlers, Kyran Daniel, and Jacob Jolliff and has performed at Wildflower! Music and Arts Festival, Treefort Music Festival, Whole Earth Festival, and the prestigious Art of Elan series at San Diego's Central Library.
Anna was nominated for best Indie song of 2023 by Indie Boulevard Magazine, and her song The Show was KUTX's song of the day in August 2024.
She has been a featured guest on NPR's Great American Folk Show, WKU PBS Lost River Sessions & was nominated for Best Americana Act at the New England Music Awards in 2024. Anna was recently featured on the WDVX Blue Plate Special, and We Found New Music Showcase.
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