annalogue is a parasol that covers anything that ann has recorded, performed or thought of outside of the Fflaps ('87 - '92) and Ectogram ('93 - )
...from lo-fi cassette recordings ('83 - '88) to 80 minute studio recorded and live performance with the Camre Cain Dance Company in '93 through to 21 hours of recording used for Brif Gof's (Welsh avant-garde theatre) summer show in '96 to the present self contained recordings done for the sheer joy of picking up any instrument, pressing record on anything that records and seeing what happens.
She also collaborates with the north Wales artist and sculptor Wanda Zyborska. Live shows comprise of recorded and live music by annalogue and performance by Wanda and Ann. See Video under annalogue blog for a taste of rubber, art and music.......................................................
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...........annalogue Debut LP BROCKEN SPECTRE is OUT NOW
on Atol Records
Pre-order and buy from www.ankst.net Or from any good record shop.
Brocken Spectre is a traditional length 12 inch VINYL LP – containing 12 tracks that will fit neatly on to one side of a C90. All new songs, written, recorded and produced by annalogue, from the fair Isle of Anglesey....
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SIDE A
Brocken Symmetry, Anomic Recipe. Ship of Mistook, Know your Vessels. Smaller Leaner, Tony Wilson.
SIDE B
Eve's Drop, Sudden Desert, Corn Curl, Cappo Incognito, Apron! Incontinuation..............................................
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Review Organ Magazine. by Sean Worrell
1st May '09: ALBUM REVIEW: ANNALOGUE – Broken Spectre (Atol) - Now there is no indication that this is deliberately coming out on Beltaine (as in today), a May Day release does feel just right though, especially when you dip a first toe in to the inviting waters of opening track Broken Symmetry (and who releases an album on a Friday unless it is a date-tying deliberate act anyway?). This is inviting spiritual drip-drip twinkling warmth and instant otherly magic from Ann Matthews - for this is a first solo album from Ann, she of Welsh experimental band Ectogram (and previous to that post-punk noise makers Fflaps). Released as a vinyl only thing (although you can buy the download version should you wish to not have the proper magic of vinyl and the art in hand to study) and perfect for this sunny Beltaine warnth today... Something very different here, rather magical, sprinkled dust and glowing tunes that slowly uncoil in a very experimental, delightfully different, very welcoming soothing inviting way.. Delicate textures, fragile layers, primitive recordings that are so so rich in sound and form (if it is primitive then very positively so), genuinely avant and experimental yet so easy and inviting - nothing hard boiled or awkward here, every slowly placed considred note, every sound an invite to go further in and discover more, and invite to bathe in the different sounds, you can’t just dip a toe in to these delights, you can’t help but go under and bask in it all for hours and hours. They are songs, nothing that conventional though, whispered words, dust in the sunlight through the cracks, natural sounds, chimes, embroidered multi-layered simplicity, lines of words and bits of tunes that take their own way, no regard for convention – always tunes though, always formed and structured, never mere experiments with sound and word... these are most certainly songs. Broken Spectre is an absolute delight of an album. An album alive, alive with those whispers, those chimes, alive with that tick tock and those gentle colliding rocks, the gentle bells, the clicks, those shadows and the mysterious otherworldly warmth of it all. Reference points? Well there aren’t really any obvious reference points, no clichéd cats and dogs and cogs and maybe a not quite so obvious Psychic TV? A touch or two of Faust? Dead Can Dance? Webcore’s magic? Not too many drums on here though, none of that Webcore forward motion, more the otherly magic and knowing mystery. Recorded in North Wales, the Isle Of Anglesey.... flutes, hums, drones that never actually become drones, words, lines that catch your ear and then retreat in to the body of the sound again, some kind of Pagan spiritual thing that never nails any colours that obviously. A magical beautiful treat of a highly recommended album and a perfect Beltaine release for this first warm day of a new summer, who’d have thought it...
