Mixed & recorded by Mike Erwin

Choir: Holland Andrews, Shannon Steele, Adrianna Locke, Emma Bagley, Jon Schied, Dana Valatka, Pieter Hylton, Devin Ghallager, Brandon Nikola, Bryan Phippen

DEATH AS A WAY

Turning of the Year - single release 18.4.24
Old Light - album release 5.9.24

Turning of the Year is the lead single from Anne-Marie Sanderson’s forthcoming debut album, Old Light. Six years on from her last release, the EP ‘Book Songs Vol. 1’, Sanderson opens a new chapter by offering both an invitation and a manifesto: ‘It’s time to set a new intention, focus our attention / Follow this breath to its full potential…’.
 
In an age where attention is spread thin and our focus seems constantly blurred by peripheral darkness, Sanderson’s songs seek out glimmers of hope and create space for them to shine. Appreciation of seemingly inconsequential things fuels her musical creativity, yet her songs often hint at the bigger picture, at once thought-provoking and uplifting. These elements of her songwriting are showcased with confident clarity in this new album.
 
Due out in September 2024, Old Light promises to be well worth the wait. In addition to being Sanderson’s first full-length album, it will be both musically and thematically her most diverse release yet, with a mix of brand new songs alongside previously unreleased material written over a decade ago. Touching on themes of nature, personal growth, and ancestral wisdom, the album is also rich in musical scope, paying homage to diverse influences from folk, pop and jazz. The end result is an original, organic sound, unmistakably Anne-Marie’s own; a signature sound crafted with care in her home studio, where she took on the roles of multi-instrumentalist, arranger, recording engineer and producer.
  
Combining deft guitar work with imaginative vocal melodies, Sanderson’s delivery combines a heartfelt tenderness with a sense of purpose. There is an understated authority to her work and an irresistible inevitability to its emotional momentum. Lush string and woodwind textures create a dreamy and expansive sound world, while her lyrics and voice strike the beautiful balance of expressing emotional complexity with grace and simplicity. Each note and every word is significant, an essential part of the greater whole. Or to borrow from the album’s soulful second single If, ‘everything has got its right place / everything has got its right time / and everything has got a balance / and everything will work out fine.’

Turning Of The Year

Recorded in a small cabin one summer night in San Luis Obispo, CA w/ members of Sparrows Gate onto a tape with a kitten watching and a classical guitar, 2012

Rake (DEMO)

Alela Diane & Ryan Francesconi - "The Sun Today"

From the album 'Breaking the Spell of Loneliness' by Ewan McLennan & George Monbiot

www.ewanmclennan.cok

Breaking the Spell of Loneliness

Such A Thing As Society

From the album 'Breaking the Spell of Loneliness' by Ewan McLennan & George Monbiot

www.ewanmclennan.co.uk

The Child Inside

Written and recorded at Lookout Point in Sequoia National Park while living there as an Artist-in-Residence.

Dana Falconberry's Album

Alberio

It’s been a grim year. I won’t add to the countless column inches exploring why; suffice to say I’ve spent a great deal of it feeling like humanity is on the edge of oblivion, and wondering if, all things considered, that might not be such a bad thing. At other times I’ve clung to what Obama described as ‘the audacity of hope’ – the idea that we may one day learn to live with love, that future generations may finally step out of the shadow of fear that divided and conquered their ancestors.

I wrote this track the night before last, then got up at 5am to record the guitar before engines started roaring in the bus garage outside my flat. You can hear a few birds singing at the end, but that seemed appropriate, so I left it in. 

Thanks for listening in 2016. Here’s hoping.

20.12.16

FREE DOWNLOAD: Some Hope

{ Watch the lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL15vLCwzVY }

It's taken me a while to process what's happened and what could happen as a result of November's election. For quite some time I, like so many others, was shocked beyond belief, lost for words, lost in despair. But sometimes inspiration and hope pop up from the unlikeliest of places. In her eloquent Golden Globe acceptance speech (the one where she slams Trump without ever saying his name), Meryl Streep quoted the immortal wisdom of Carrie Fisher: "Take your broken heart and make it into art." Such a simple turn of phrase, almost cliche, and yet it resonated so strongly with me. So, that's what I decided to do. Although I wasn't able to take to the streets in protest this past weekend, this song and video are my own response to Trump's inauguration and the looming shadow of his presidency. This is my first (and perhaps not my last) protest song.

Red Giant

seven years

Singer-songwriter (etc) in Cumbria.

Anne-Marie Sanderson opens a new chapter with her new single, Turning of the Year, offering both an invitation and a manifesto: ‘It’s time to set a new intention, focus our attention / Follow this breath to its full potential...’.

Old Light, her forthcoming debut album [5 Sep 24] promises to be well worth the wait.  Touching on themes of nature, personal growth, and ancestral wisdom, the album is also rich in musical scope, paying homage to diverse influences from folk, pop and jazz. The end result is a signature sound crafted with care in Anne-Marie’s home studio, where she took on the roles of multi-instrumentalist, arranger, recording engineer and producer.

In an age where attention is spread thin and our focus seems constantly blurred by peripheral darkness, Sanderson’s songs seek out glimmers of hope and create space for them to shine. There is an understated authority to her work and an irresistible inevitability to its emotional momentum. Each note and every word is significant, an essential part of the greater whole. Or to borrow from the album’s soulful second single If, ‘everything has got its right place / everything has got its right time / and everything has got a balance / and everything will work out fine.’

"a gloriously wide vista of astonishing grown-up tales which both fascinate and delight – the overall result, complex and immersive, is mesmerising... A bold, unusual and most beautifully constructed body of work." - Tap the Feed Magazine (2018)

Turning Of The Year

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