Death and Decay...
For all who have been enchanted by Anna's alluring music.
Anna-Varney's music itself is quite emotional and dreary, using a variety of brass, woodwinds (in particular, flutes), string quartets and various guitars. In some instances, synthesizers and drum machines or real percussion is used. Anna-Varney has clearly stated that (s)he creates his music about himself, solely for himself. Various themes include death, suicide, karmatic pain, loneliness and sadness. A very important concept is the idea of becoming or being a woman, or at least removal of the male genitalia in favour of attaining the female variant.
Discography
Like A Corpse Standing In Despiration (Original demos, rarities & documented failures 1989-2004)
DISC ONE
1 Omen Sinistrium
2 Dead Souls
3 Stake Of My Soul
4 Beautiful Thorn 5 Baptisma
6 The Feast Of Blood
7 Sopor Fratrem Mortis
8 Reprise
9 White Body
10 Dio N'arap
11 Tabour C'alan O'itana
12 Deep The Eternal Forest
13 Watch Your Step
14 Introduction - The Termite People
15 Anima I
16 Shadowsphere II
17 Saltatio Crudelitatis
18 Fretoid-Phantasien
19 Anima II
20 Tanz Der Grausamkeit
21 As Fire Kissed The Echo Twins
DISC TWO
1 The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II
2 Ein Freundliches Wort Hat Meine Seele Beruhrt
3 Memalon II
4 Alone
5 Modela Est
6 Birth
7 Feralia Genitalia - The Arrival Of The Jugglers
8 Menuetto
9 Saturn-Impressionen
10 May I Kiss Your Wound?
11 Alone II 12 The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller II (Instrumental)
13 The Widow's Dream
14 The Goat
15 The Bells Have Stopped Ringing
DISC THREE
1 In An Hour Darkly
2 The Conqueror Worm
3 Minnesang
4 Von Der Einfalt
5 Hearse-Shaped Basins Of Darkest Matter
6 Leeches & Deception
7 Extract From: The Voices Of The Dead
8 Do You Know My Name?/What Has Happened While We Slept?
9 Album-Trailer "La Chambre d'Echo"
The Goat
1 The Goat
2 The Bells Have Stopped Ringing
Flowers In Formaldehyde
1 In An Hour Darkly
2 The Conqueror Worm
3 Minnesang
4 Von Der Einfalt
5 Hearse-Shaped Basins Of Darkest Matter
6 Leeches & Deception
7 Extract From: The Voices Of The Dead
8 Do You Know My Name?/What Has Happened While We Slept?
La Chambre d'Echo - Where The Birds Sing
1 The Encoded Cloister
2 Backbone Practise
3 Idleness & Concequence
4 Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
5 Imhotep
6 Hearse-Shaped Basins Of Darkest Matter
7 Interlude - The Quiet Earth
8 We Have A Dog To Exercise
9 The Lion's Promise
10 Leeches & Deception
11 The Skeletal Garden
12 Feed The Birds
13 Consolatrix Has Left The Building
14 Day Of The Dead
Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell Or: The Vampyre sucking at his own vein
1 Omen Sinistrum
2 Dead Souls
3 Stake Of My Soul
4 Beautiful Thorn
5 Baptisma
6 The Feast Of Blood
7 Sopor Fratrem Mortis Est
8 The Dreadful Mirror
9 Reprise
10 Birth - Fiendish Figuration
11 Penance & Pain
12 Holy Water Moonlight
13 Infant
14 Uber Den Fluss
15 Dark Delight
Nenia C'alladhan
1 An Die Sterne
2 Die Stimme Im Sturm
3 Schwarzer Spiegel
4 Schattengesang
5 Der See Des Vergessens
6 Sternblumennacht
7 Schwarzer Spiegel II
8 Lied Der Todesfee
9 Sternblumennacht
Songs From The INverted Womb
1 Something Wicked This Way Comes
2 Tales From The Inverted Womb
3 Do You Know About The Water Of Life?
4 And Bringer Of Sadness
5 Resume
6 Totes Kind/Little Dead Boy
7 May I Kiss Your Wound?
8 Saturn Devouring His Children
9 There Was A Country By The Sea
10 Little Velvetten Knight
11 Eldorado
Dead Lover's Sarabanade (Part Two)
1 Abschied
2 The Dog Burial
3 The House Is Empty Now
4 No-one Is There
5 Procession/Funeral March
6 Va(r)nitas, vanitas... (...omnia vanitas)
7 The Hourglass
8 Transfiguration
9 Has he come to test me?
10 If Loneliness was all
11 Daffodils
Dead Lover's Sarabanade (Part One)
1 Across the Bridge
2 On Satur(n)days we used to sleep
3 Hades Pluton
4 Sieh', mein Geliebter, hier hab' ich Gift
5 Ich wollte hinaus in den Garten
6 Gebet: an die gl..cklichen Eroberer
7 Lament/Totenklage
8 The Sleeper
9 Die Knochenblume
10 Inschrift/Epitaph
11 All good Things are Eleven
The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller
1 Sylla'bor..al
2 Question(s) Beyond Terms (Who is confronting the Impossible?)
3 C'ayllagher a Dom'bhrail
4 To a loyal Friend
5 Never trust the Obvious
6 The inexperienced Spiral Traveller
7 Memalon
8 Memories are Haunted Places
9 Die Widerspenstigkeit unerw..nschter Gedanken
10 Synchronicity
11 Totenlicht (Infant in the face of Time)
12 Ein freundliches Wort... (...hat meine Seele ber..hrt.)
13 Die Toten kehren wieder mit dem Wind
14 May I kiss your Wound?
15 Ein g..tiges L..cheln auf den Gesichtern der Toten...
Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne
1 Flesh Crucifix
2 Die Bruderschaft des Schmerzes
3 Shadowsphere I & II
4 Saltatio Crudelitatis
5 Just a Song without a Name
6 Soror
7 Le Th..âtre de la Blessure sacr..e
8 The Devil's Instrument
9 Todeswunsch
10 Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit I
11 Freitod-Phantasien
12 Drama der Geschlechtslosigkeit II
13 Saturn-Impressionen
14 Somnabulist's secret Bardo-Life
15 Not dead but dying
16 Only the Dead in the Mist
17 This profane Finality
18 Cage within a Cage
"...Ich t..te mich jedesmal aufs Neue doch ich bin unsterblich, und ich erstehe wieder auf; in einer Vision des Untergangs..."
1 Travel on Breath
2 Falling into different Flesh
3 Birth - Fiendish Figuration
4 Tanz der Grausamkeit
5 Im Garten des Nichts
6 Time stands still
7 Do you know my Name
8 Penance & Pain
9 Holy Water Moonlight
10 Beautiful Thorn
11 The Feast of Blood
12 Dark Delight
13 Baptisma
14 Birth - Fiendish Figuration