anna domino
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Born on Tokyo, songwriter Anna Domino was raised in Italy, Canada and New York. After East and West (1984) and Anna Domino (1986), Anna went on to record several more albums for Crepuscule, including This Time (1987) and Mysteries of America (1990), before returning to the States. More recent albums (as Snakefarm) include Songs From My Funeral and My Halo At Half-Light, both collections of radical treatments of old and traditional songs. Anna is currently based on Los Angeles. To read full biography click here. To purchase Anna Domino CDs click here.


ANNA DOMINO LTMCD 2397 £10
After relocating from New York to Brussels in 1985, Anna Domino cut this magical album with the aid of top flight producers Alan Rankine (Associates) and Marc Moulin (Telex). The record proved a major independent success, thanks largely to Anna's confessional lyrics and reflective vocals, combined with sophisticated songs and sharp rhythmic styles. In particular check out Not Right Now, the crystalline, proto trip-hop of Caught and the near-hit singles Rhythm, Summer and Take That. The album also includes a smart cover of the Smokey Robinson classic The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game. In the UK the album was released on Factory Records. The five bonus cuts include all the non-album tracks from the 1984 ep 'Rhythm', plus the outstanding single remix of Summer by Arthur Baker and also Zanna, a collaboration with Luc van Acker. The remastered CD runs for 70 minutes, and includes detailed sleeve notes and cover art by Benoit Hennebert. Full tracklist: Rythm, Drunk, Koo Koo, My Man, Caught, Summer, The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game, Chosen Ones, Not Right Now, Take That, Sixteen Tons, Half of Myself, Target, Summer (Arthur Baker Remix), Zanna.

Reviews: "Well worth another spin round the block. A sophisticated slice of synth-pop, it still wears its down-tempo charms refreshingly lightly, with the smokey, finger-snapping opener Rythm worth the admission alone" (Q Magazine, May 2004); "A sharp, fun treat - Anna keeps an easy feel going in her music, with plenty of finger-snapping, hip-swinging grooves" (All Music Guide, March 2004); "The best possible introduction to a seductive, mercurial character who continues to make far too few orbits into our earthbound pop world" (Whisperin' & Hollerin', 4/04); "Domino's tainted torch songs are not for playing discreetly in the background, but well worth the trouble of engaging with" (Uncut, 5/04); "Cool and somewhat detached vocals sit astride the music's cool pop grooves. Anna Domino feels like an artist headed for mainstream success, which never arrived. Why?" (The Wire, 4/04); "Anna Domino is one of those artists who have somehow remained undiscovered by the mases during her 20 year career. Her music is jazzy, cosmopolitan and sophisticated, yet with a simplicity and poppiness which simply isn't reflected in the lyrics" (Exclaim! 05/04); "A state of resigned half-awareness lifts these uncensored confessionals beyond the precipice. This is the sound of dusk, seasons, sublime elegance and supernatural light" (NME, 9/86)


THIS TIME LTMCD 2399 £10
This Time was the follow up to Anna's acclaimed self-titled debut, originally released by Crepuscule in 1987. The album marked the debut of her enduring songwriting partnership with Michel Delory, and was produced by Flood (Depeche Mode, U2). The album was less groove-orientated than its predecessor and instead offered stronger, more direct songs delivered in a variety of styles, including uptempo dance tracks (Time For Us, She Walked), ballads (the singles Lake and Tempting) or country-folk (Own Kind). This Time saw Anna truly at the top of her game, and it's a measure of the calibre of the writing that a song as strong as Hammer was then relegated to b-side status. The five bonus cuts include non-album tracks from singles include Hammer and an alternative version of Tempting produced by former Associate Alan Rankine. 70 minutes of music, artwork by Madoka, detailed sleevenotes. Full tracklist: Own Kind, Just Once, Time For Us, Change to Come, This Time, Tempting, She Walked, Rain, Come to Harm, Lake, Hammer, Chaos, Please Don't, Tempting (12"), Tempting (1996 version).

Reviews: "A consistently melodic album with several standouts, notably the ambitious, baroque Kate Bush stylings of the title track, the serene ballad Lake and the excellent single Tempting. A triumph of understated, infectious pop" (Leonard's Lair, 07/04); "Her best and most enduring collection of songs. This Time displays an impressive range of moods and styles, and represents that ultra-rarity - the glossy but memorable album from 1987 that you will still want to own. Quite a result" (Whisperin' & Hollerin', 8/04)


MYSTERIES OF AMERICA / COLOURING IN THE EDGE... LTMCD 2410 £10
Mysteries of America dates from 1990 and offers eight original songs by Anna Domino and Michel Delory, as well as a haunting cover of Isn't That So by Jesse Winchester. More acoustic than before, the album was recorded in New York and Brussels, and produced by Anton Sanko (Suzanne Vega). The evocative cover art comes courtesy of Benoit Hennebert. Says Anna: "It's a travelogue of sorts - starts with a memory from childhood and ends with the Big Sleep." In addition this expanded CD reissue also features the five track mini album Colouring in the Edge and the Outline. Released by Crepuscule in 1988, the set experiments with a more electronic, sequenced sound than before. The final bonus track is a previously unreleased recording from 1987, an experimental cover of Stand Apart by The Hood. Full tracklist: Home, Pandora, Paris, Bonds of Love, Isn't That So, Tamper With Time, Bead/9.15, "Oh Beautiful…", Dust, Luck, Clouds of Joy, Tyranny (Of Your Company), 88, Perfect Day (No, He Says), Always Always, Stand Apart.

Reviews: "Repeated listenings draw out some fines tunes. Home is a classic, while Bonds of Love evokes the pure vision of Paul Brady's best albums. Every song has a fresh take, and none has a false note" (Whisperin' & Hollerin', 9/04); 'This is one daydream from which you shouldn't awake' (NME, 01/1991); 'An album to be relished' (Melody Maker, 01/1991)


EAST AND WEST / LIVE IN JAPAN LTMCD 2383 £10
The debut mini album by Anna Domino, originally released in 1984 by Les Disques du Crepuscule (TWI 187) plus rare b side track Repeating. Guests include Virginia Astley, Blaine L. Reininger and Luc Van Acker. Digitally remastered, the CD edition now includes another seven bonus tracks recorded live in concert in Tokyo in January 1987, two of them (Change, Just Too Much) not recorded elsewhere. Booklet includes images and biography. Full tracklist: With the Day Comes the Dawn, Land of My Dreams, Review, Everyday I Don't, Trust in Love, Repeating + live tracks 'Rythm', My Man, Take That, Change, Just Too Much, She Walked, Caught.

Reviews: "The way Anna lingers out desire, as if wounded by apprehension, is quite exquisite" (NME, 11/1983); "The wounded fragility of Anna's voice is a definite plus. Her approach is not a million miles away from The Raincoats, which is obviously no bad thing" (Melody Maker, 12/1983); "Land of My Dreams is a song of thrilling poignancy and confident, lonely calm" (NME, 03/1984); "Tender panache, intoxicating sound" (Melody Maker, 04/1985); "Fans of femme folk-new wave (Raincoats, Young Marble Giants etc) should check out this mini album even though the artist floats her lyricism in a gentle electronic wash and doesn't appear to hail from Britannia. Me, I'm a fan of early Tom Tom Club, Velvets-era Nico, and Maureen Tucker singing "Afterhours." Hypnotic with no cosmic aspirations, she could be labelled spaced out, but in a dreamy, nicely sophisticated way" (Robert Christgau, 1984)


DREAMBACK (BEST OF) LTMCD 2418 £10
Dreamback offers 16 of Anna's finest songs, including singles and album tracks recorded between 1984 and 1996. The singles include 'Rythm', Summer, Take That, Zanna, Tempting, Lake and Tamper With Time, along with key tracks from all her albums (East and West, Anna Domino, This Time, Mysteries of America). Featured producers include Marc Moulin, Alan Rankine, Arthur Baker, Flood and Anton Sanko. Dreamback also includes the newer title song, Dreamback. Full tracklist: Rhythm, Summer (7"), Take That, Caught, Zanna, Time For Us, She Walked, Tempting, Lake, Hammer, Luck, 88, Bonds of Love, Tamper With Time, Dreamback, Land of my Dreams.

Reviews: "Anna Domino's sensual voice, insightful lyrics and the tiny atmospheres encircling her arrangements offer more for the pop connoisseur" (The Big Takeover, 9/04); "A handy overview, Dreamback fulfils its brief and then some. It's incredible that she hasn't gained wider attention" (All Music Guide, 10/04); "The cream of Anna Domino's extensive catalogue" (Brainwashed, 2005)


SONGS FROM MY FUNERAL LTMCD 2539 £10
Originally released in 1999 as Snakefarm, the acclaimed downtempo/folktronica duo comprising Anna Domino and Michel Delory. After a decade in Europe recording as Anna Domino for Crepuscule and Factory, the cosmopolitan Domino/Delory partnership relocated to New York in the mid 1990s and decided to cut an album of traditional American songs, reworked in radical retrofit style. The sombrely slinky results defy easy categorisation. Acid blues? Trip-hop? Troubadour? Nick Cave meets Sneaker Pimps? Defying genre diktat, haunting Songs From My Funeral sold 30,000 copies on its original release, with St James and Banks of the Ohio becoming airplay hits in America. Booklet includes artist biography, lyrics and images. Full tracklist: St James, Rising Sun, This Train That I Ride, Frankie and Johnny, Laredo, John Henry, Black Girl, Tom Dooley, Banks of the Ohio, Pretty Horses

Reviews: 'This was, in many ways, the first salvo of the folktronica movement, re-imagining traditional American songs in utterly new ways, with loops and beats melded to the vocals and instruments. Even now it sounds as fresh and exciting as it did then' (fRoots, 10/2011); 'Slinky, funky interpretations of American standards and folk/blues classics' (Boomkat, 11/2010); 'Anna Domino has a new role as chronicler-in-chief of America's most blood-soaked folk music' (The Times, 10/1999); 'Groundbreaking trip-hoppery through the sacred cows of American folk music, right on the button' (Folk Roots, 11/1999); 'Brilliant!' (Rock n' Reel, 11/1999); 'This album had already caused major waves for the striking boldness of the way it strips down hoary old folk-blues standards and reinvents them in a series of astonishing inventive free-form arrangements. Arrangements swerve daring from trip-hop to subtle jazz to minimalist rock to mild heavy metal - a strange brew indeed' (Mojo, 08/1999); 'The familiar strains of traditional Appalachian ballads, blues standards, dust bowl folk; the harmonicas traded for electronica, but still a banjo and dobro here and there, and over it all, sultrysharp vocals as rich and disarming as the greenblack waters of the drowned French Quarter. Truly astounding!' (Amazon.com, 2001)


AFTER TWILIGHT LTMCD 2562 £10
Anna Domino contributes three exclusive tracks to this 2010 Crepuscule reunion album curated by Isabelle Antena, which also features contributions from Isabelle, Cathy Claret, Paul Haig, Blaine L. Reininger and The Names. Artwork by Andrew Prinz. For full details of the After Twilight project click here.

In addition to the CDs listed above we have a limited number of 7" singles on the Crepuscule label, namely "Rythm/Target" (TWI 520) and "Take That/Koo Koo" (TWI 586). Both come in attractive picture sleeves and are priced at just £2.00 plus postage.

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