lotte kestner (anna-lynne) - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Lotte is my first solo experiment. I have been singing in Trespassers William for over 10 years but I have lots of songs that are too short or too folky for the band and I am going to try to play almost all of the music myself with some brief appearances from friends. A 2007 release is most likely. I should mention that the songs on here are unmixed, unmastered, and will change in the future. I have a lot of songs in my head so I'm not sure which will make it to the album, but they can all debut on this page. The songs are a bit quiet - headphones are good. For the time being I'm planning on putting this out myself, but I am on the lookout for a good label. I am also working on the project Tunnel-Tunnel with Rooos! which is more experimental than any of this. A new Trespassers record is also in the final stages. I also have a book of compiled writings called Split Infinitive. Jeff Martin of Idaho lends piano, guitar, and voice to the album version of Fainting Spells and the ambient reprise Fainted Twice. Toby Campbell (Hope Convention) lends violins to Temperature and piano to Before You Are.Other places I've been heard: singing with the Chemical Brothers, AFI, Minotaur Shock, Phononoir, Buddy, Hope Convention...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/28/2006
Band Members: Anna-Lynne Williams
Influences: cat stevens, lisa germano, radiohead, joanna newsom, idaho, kings of convenience, talk talk, cocteau twins, cocorosie, nick drake, elbow, iron and wine, avey tare, bjork, will oldham, mark kozelek, kate bush, marcel proust, leonard cohen, w somerset maugham, jim krusoe, magnetic fields, jeff buckley, dirty projectors, miranda july, hayden desser, vashti bunyan,kent, devendra banhart, david cross, david lynch, vincent gallo, rooos!, matthew barney, nicolai dunger, massive attack, tom waits, animal collective, red house painters, wilco, disinterested, n.c. skolrud, sun kil moon, thom yorke, elliott smith, el perro del mar, cat power, under byen, imogen heap, tom tykwer, paul thomas anderson, vladimir nabokov, daniel johnston, panda bear, sigur ros, innocence mission, joe maloney, sergius gregory
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new hope convention track

hope convention has a new song up this week called "american view" which features vocals by toby, penny, and myself at the hope convention myspace page:http://www.myspace.com/hopeconvention toby is o...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:52:00 PST

working

so i'm taking advantage of this last opportunity to make changes to china mountain as the design is being finished and details are ironed out.meanwhile, the tunnel-tunnel project is being resuscitated...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:52:00 PST

writing

a few poems, mostly from last year.(freckles)if you talk like a philosophera lover without questions.i do not understand,cannot imagine any lustfor something you know entirelysomething you could immed...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:14:00 PST

we still miss the future

phononoir's "the objects don't need us" is now available on amazon, featuring the song "we still miss the future", on which i lent some vocals.trespassers just mixed the last 2 album tracks 2 days ago...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:01:00 PST

loud and clear

the first round of mixing is all finished, we (matt brown and i) worked at orbit audio in downtown seattle. we bounced down several different mixes for each song, so i don't know exactly what the albu...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:36:00 PST

every kiss means less and less

pleased to have another new cover. i decided a few days that i just had to do this one, and tonight it all came naturally. this is a song that appeared on the first 6ths record. the 6ths is a side pro...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:08:00 PST

temperature with strings

toby campbell of hope convention recently recorded some violins for temperature. here is an early mix of what it is becoming.
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:06:00 PST

oh yes you should own....

the new zidane soundtrack by mogwai. like a glorious new extended version of ep + 2 which was always my favorite of theirs. mellow and epic. one of the prettiest things out this year.bat for lashes.th...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:18:00 PST

...in the studio

next week is the week.final mixes with matt brown in a seattle studio. keeping it simple but hopefully making it better. and some beautiful artwork coming along by PCP. just wanted to say thank you. t...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:04:00 PST

room sound

there aren't many good things about relationships ending. except that maybe in that window of time following, there is a bit more earnestness in the songs that are written. maybe there is a difference...
Posted by lotte kestner (anna-lynne) on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:09:00 PST