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the wanderer



hamilton wasteland,
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Member Since11/23/2005
Band Websitewww.room101.net/buildingcastles
Band Members
several girls named anne.


a few synthesizers

a guitar

lots of effects pedals


secrets.


















the synthesizer is my expression.

like the view of the horizon

it has become part of me.
























do you daydream?






























my handwriting is terrible

but i can draw robots!





















and

perhaps its ridiculous,

but i take thousands of photos.






they make time stand still.
















Influencesmy shifting reality.





secrets.

surprises.

stories

my memories

romance

laughter

daydreams

the stars.

space.





QUESTIONS...

and PAUSES.






so


what if everything
i know

and remember

isn't even real.

i think alot about that.

memories?

it's AN illusion of time missing.

humble pieces
thrown together.

it doesn't make any sense

anymore.




things are shadows
without substance....



and still

my heart beats
to the sounds
of
thousands
of robots
ALL singing

to themselves.

real or not

that is
my biggest influence
of all!


and things like

ubik.
radio shows.
an eye to the sky?
synthesized sounds.



every single album

by Rothko.

i really like

butterflies.
and synth-pop
country roads.
report cards.
sweet kisses.
casino versus japan.
moogs
robots
hawkwind with brock+turner!
robert calvert
first dates.
getting over horrible breakups.
the other window.
mark beazley.
three sweet kitties.
phil ogison.
long talks.
ESCAPING heart ache...

new beginnings.....

positivity


so here's a MONOLOGUE:


if i could

you know i would

i do not want

to waste

another day.





i would have

never

let you down


AN ASIDE...

you know

i have 2 problems

IN LIFE.

1. people have let me down


2. i have this inability to let things go.



?

and still

people seem to take

and take some more....

but

this is all i have.

it may not be much

but to me it's everything.




and then they think its funny

HOW
i spend most of my time

daydreaming and

wandering.....


documenting.

wishing...


re-living.





practicing the art

of forgetting





but you know


i still know how to smile.



i

really

love emotional music
and
laughing.
forgetting everything
and heading for the country
in a car
loud music
acceptance
without my friends
it wouldnt mean anything.

(they make this place less lonely)

i love listening to
flying saucer attack
american analog set
and drawing cute robots.

being surrounded
by thunder storms with
reflections in water
i wonder and i wonder

happiness?
oh, its hard to keep a balance

it helps to own
every single book
by philiP K DICK

his secret messages
are incredible!


i love
SCIENCE NORTH

(he is the beat master)
and TARWATER


sometimes i even

love to yell

when its snowing!



i dream of
pink ballons.
snowflakes.
gold stars....

being in love

for like forever!!!!

yes, it is

possible.


BUT

sometimes i think

that all this

doesn't mean anything..

cause none of this is real!



























i know


i know...


i talk too much

and i think too much

and

IM STUCK

IN SOME KIND

OF LA LA LAND.

BUT YOU KNOW, I LIKE IT HERE!













i love
sonic youth.
dream signals.
oval.
i like playing with
short wave radios.
and matt david.
looking at autumn trees.
listening to seefeel.
i love post cards.
original ideas.
creativity.

im always

puttering about a small land.


my most secret land
lust?
belonging.
love?
well it isnt hatred.
false hopes....
ideals?
confusion
these are what goven my life.

but i resist.

and i laugh anyway.



so lets just forget everything
and listen to
yo la tengo.







my life is filled with

unreplied emails.
blocked users.
secret messages.
empty streets.
mountains of hope

kisses goodbye.

painful hellos.

cold days.

the longest nights.


many endless kisses.

decisions
and
revisions....






but i think that
perhaps all this

is what makes me crazy.




but still i keep telling myself

that just because

something isnt true

it doesnt mean

i cant believe in it!















have i confused you yet?

(i have that effect on people)




life without buildings ?


if it was any other city..........






































here's a secret....












i'm hopelessly in love with a machine!





































i also make videos
here is one of my films

music by rothko

a song called

be invisible


rothko - be invisible

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ok

lets pause for
another
moment






































i know

there

is

no

modern

romance



























and still

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i wait most patiently....




























































I'm lost.






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but not in this world

that i have created...





















































and when im asked

who is anne sulikowski

i dont even know what to say

there's tons of different parts of me

and it always simply depends

on stupid or silly things.




things always get better





but in a way

even that doesnt matter

cause you know

its not really about
whether or not

its going to be a better day tommorrow


its more about

how i will react

when


it gets here.



























and sometimes im asked

how can a girl be so outgoing

and yet so sad.


it is no illusion

being surrounded by others

doesn't mean

you have found

any connections.














Sounds Likeelectronic lullabyes
filled with oscillating synthesis
telling stories of love
of dreams shattered
of promises not broken
lies often told
fairy tales coming true

and

other strange things i think about.







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my new full length album

is available now

through trace recordings

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01 - Maybe
02 - All You Leave Behind
03 - Stay
04 - Everything
05 - Bardzo Daleko
06 - Daytime Masquerade
07 - Promise Me Just One More Night
08 - You And I
09 - Secret Land
10 - The Unspeakable
11 - Tell Me A Story
12 - What Lies Between
13 - Voices
14 - This is Our Goodbye
15 - Desire Lines
16 - All My Love For You Is Still Unknown











new castles split with millimetrik available now!
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CASTLES SPLIT MINI CD RELEASE

with science north

available for 3 dollars

limited edition

















..........




smile silly face

19 songs of love, loss, mystery, dreamstates
and secret messages....

available on itunes through 9.12 records












here are some of my olde releases from worthy records, if you would like to purchase one just click on the little button....


all older releases are $5 canadian
free shipping anywhere.




"oh, didn't she ramble...."


"the secret doctrine"


"studios and airplanes"


"there is no modern romance"
























YOU KNOW



everyone has a story.....











filled with dreams

and secrets.



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i know i've said alot.

BUT

perhaps i didn't really say too much at all.
maybe it's just scrambled words and random bursts of emotions i feel from time to time.

i don't know.





I've stopped trying to figure alot of things out.


.......





i guess to an outsider
it may seem

that i dont know much

but i do know

that things will just get better from here.




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This is the musical diary of Anne Sulikowski.


an emotional anarchist; self proclaimed wanderer.







































a biography

"Anne has been musical since she was a child and started noodling with electronics her last year in highschool. Since then she has performed in many groups and duos often sticking to improvised works and various forms of audio installations using primarily synthesizers, pedals and a guitar.

She began this solo project early 2000 and Since then she has musically documented and explored extraordinary events, her dreams, her experience of love, battles with introspection, random thoughts and the simple pleasures and boredom of her everyday life.

Building Castles out of matchsticks cannot be easily lumped into a particular electronic genre. her songs are reflective of her emotional drive, like a modern day folk music. when asked, she often refers to her music as "drone-pop". she is always recording using sounds and thoughts she finds in la la land and in her daydreams. Her experimentations are filled with analogue synthesis, drones, organs, broken guitar strumming, pedal manipulations, circut bent toys, found sounds, disjointed beats and often intimate vocals telling secrets she wouldn't dare write.


or would she?

the honesty contained in the music of building castles out of matchsticks is real. as real as the one thousand sides of anne that records them. "


















anne also spends time behind a camera as both photographer and videographer...


photo link to castle clips



her photos are all over this page and a photo link here:
































some press and words:


Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, a project that fuses abstract songwriting with highly unconventional electronics, resulting in a magical blend of electroacoustic ambience, and disembodied vocal loveliness. (Bookmat)


deeply intimate and revealing. equally comfortable writing songs about the demons that lurk deep in her heart and the soaring joy that true love can bring. (Rik Mclean, Ping Things)


a constant undertow of symphonic bass and murmuring synth that conjure images of happy water babies, oceanic worlds of mermaids. (God is in the TV)


Sulikowski crafts out a sumptuous spectacle of spectral synth mirages haloed beautifully by fleeting passages of ebbing and flowing celestial crests and gently pirouetting figurines that twinkle and serenade as though beset in night skies firmament of stars (Mark Barton Losing today)


Lovely proof that “experimental electronica” can also provide a happily “straightforward” listening experience without imploding into cuteness. (Jonny Dovercourt, Wavelength Toronto)


Rainy sketches for rainy days. (Vital weekly no 409)



This is lushness that is trippy, hazy and mostly lethargic. When present, beats are intermittently woven into the fabric of the songs. I'm not exactly sure that I could even call these tid-bits songs. They could be better described as edits of Anne's wildly imaginative dream-world. I'm not sure if her dream world is scary or fun as most of the time, her words are obscured [my guess is, they're obscured on purpose]. Obscurity works wonders in hiding away her real intent. Let's face it, on a human level, absolute honesty in a song could be equal to suicide. Why would anyone want to share the most innermost thoughts and feelings and throw these out for all to see? With the cricket sounds surrounding my warm, fuzzy musical reality, I conclude that Anne is one brave soul. Unafraid to be honest in her intent and musically coming off as a soothing remedy, "Secret Land" is an altered-reality experience that is not to be missed. (Tom Sekowski GAZ-ETA)














labels: click on pics for links

trace recordings (anne's label)















anne's collectively run, non profit record label.








undersee recordings
























































some links of anne's work/pages


























































anne is always working on music or film. She has and is collaborating with rothko, pleq, millimetrik, -243, Phil Ogison, theapplespfenergy, lodz, Sound in Stasis, Monodrone, science north, SIRK, rhea tucanae, jan st iverson, implex grace, antonio de braga, tellemake, lil dreamland, the mass of silence, mach feedback....

more collabs coming soon!



if you are interested in a collab be in touch.
































anne does a weekly radio show

of experimental, electric and other types

of obscure, ambient and la la land music.





if you would like to be featured on air

be in touch



































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character is destiny



and that is


the only truth

i know.



























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Robb Appleton





Jul 9 2009 11:36 PM

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Hello Anne - just passing and enjoying your sounds and pictures - really like Voices. Cheers~Robb
floreality





Jul 9 2009 8:42 PM

Great Sound,
I'm a new fan!!!

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Thanx for the add,
Adrian*
CHRIS YAN


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Jul 9 2009 5:16 PM

chris yan elephant dream
finneyerkes





Jul 9 2009 5:13 PM

hey ma'am
check out the new video for "cobain"
it's kinda trippy
bug i hope you enjoy it
definitely let us know what you think
how are you? :]
+ert+





Jul 9 2009 1:25 PM

News pics & sound on :

www.myspace.com/ertjogleor

Complot performance Body


 

eBoNiiikq





Jul 9 2009 12:13 PM

...bin long lung thyme, ...eYe g0t beAt up!
peAc
:::rannou





Jul 8 2009 11:47 PM

hello again :)
D A ä R i





Jul 8 2009 7:43 PM

hi friends, come listen to "trouble" our new song!
Satyen Thaker





Jul 8 2009 5:34 PM

Thanks for being my friend! :)

Satyen
SYNESTESIE/A2b


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Jul 8 2009 5:04 PM

hello Anne ,

i have a new track analoqique.

Good Week -)


Pascal



chronik





Jul 7 2009 8:40 PM

:)
im really glad :)
Jesper Sørensen





Jul 7 2009 2:13 PM

Hi Anne

just a visit 2 enjoy your a1 music, im at all you leave behind, very very good.

Also a new track I'm not alive with the also as yourselves very talented artist ramsaygee who is singing, an a1 collaboration, I hope you will enjoy it when you get 4.58 min :-)

best wishes and have a great day
jesper
Ian Maksin





Jul 7 2009 4:07 AM

just passing by to hear and see some very beautiful things. you are tremendously gifted... thank you for the inspiration. hugs from chicago
Placement





Jul 6 2009 8:57 PM

Tremendous beats and hanging tension on Voices. Glorious stuff.
Imago Meccano





Jul 6 2009 3:26 AM


THE most blocked artist ON myspace





Jul 5 2009 4:02 PM

thank you
pixyblink





Jul 5 2009 7:55 AM

♥ pink eye :3
finneyerkes





Jul 4 2009 9:03 PM

hey
check out the new songs
'Lark' is for the ep and 'Keely' is for the instrumental album we're working on
check it out and let us know what you think
how are you? :]
antonio de Braga





Jul 3 2009 10:01 PM

Photobucket x.
Studio LAG





Jul 3 2009 2:31 PM

Hi!How are you doing?
Great music...and your sound is very interesting!

Peace and Love.
ARTE SACRA spa (Francesco Perdonà)





Jul 3 2009 5:32 AM

Robert Mapplethorpe - Orchid - 1985 Pictures, Images and Photos
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Jul 2 2009 5:36 PM

it never ends.
connecticat





Jul 2 2009 5:30 PM

New song / Complot :

Wake up ! (remix 2009)
on :
for the fun & the sun...

Eric
building castles out of matchsticks





Jul 2 2009 5:07 PM

spam totally sucks
AGHARTA





Jul 2 2009 4:37 PM

new track!
"HAY UN VAMPIRO EN MI MENTE"

hope you like it!

greetongs from AGHARTA.
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