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.
electronic 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.
my new full length album
is available now
through trace recordings
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!
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.
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.
"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
character is destiny
and that is
the only truth
i know.
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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 :-)
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? :]
"oh, didn't she ramble...."
"the secret doctrine"
"studios and airplanes"
"there is no modern romance"
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