From Dungannon in the North of Ireland to radio play, appearing on festival stages, movie soundtracks, great reviews so far, and - to great response - premiering some of the new MOSES album in USA last year, a unique musical journey continues.
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‘Mother’ is a powerful new song from the star shaped, multi-talent-tasking, Anna Wolf,
Tunefully heartfelt, the aim is to be an enigmatic salve where grief from loss, in it’s many forms, comes from so many angles.
The result is a stark and beautiful comfort which reaches out with winter cool chords and solace warm vocals that are simultaneously fragile, strong and lyrically relatable;
“I don’t wanna breathe when you’re not here”
“As some of you may know, this is a very personal song for me, I wanted to capture the raw essence of grief and acknowledging that it's okay to not be okay... I have lost a few very close people to me over the past three years and it has not been easy”.
The song serves as a source of solace and hope if you are struggling to move forward after losing a loved one, reminding you that you are not alone and that healing is possible, even with a broken heart."
Anna Wolf
The video is a short film at one with itself, the song and performance. A personal artist and audience one-to-one feeling is created by the cinematic simplicity of being filmed with music photography legend, Paul Harries; one on one:
One camera, one tripod and one torch creating one sonic drama. The trust from their friendship and working relationship makes for personal viewing.
There are many layers to Anna Wolf, an artist who has achieved much but still has more to be revealed.
The eternal invention of presenting soundscapes being one facet. Then there’s the experience of Anna Wolf’s live show: A main stage drama. Hooked and down the front again for the launch of Kick Out The Jams new venue (Two Palms at Hackney Empire) recently. Anna Wolf and her band are a world class rock show! - Room. Stunned. Again.
As 2024 looms, Anna Wolf‘s big-screen debut is the (already award winning) new movie ‘Forever Young’. (FB movie trailer)
An imaginative sci-fi drama, directed by Hank Pretorius. It’s currently showing in USA and Canada - with South African screenings in December. Anna Wolf’s music is on the soundtrack, a perfect setting for such cinematic sound.
‘Mother’, is it’s own short film and could, in many ways, be a song for the loss of the world that we thought we knew. For many, this decade, especially…
The lasting impression of the song, which prompted this feedback article, is a balance between outpouring and resilience. Empathetic art like this, transports us to future hopes. All is not lost.
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Read MoreWe had to find out more, and asked:
Driftwood: “I’ve been making music in some capacity or another since I was a kid. My dad first gave me an old acoustic guitar when I was eleven and taught me to play a few Bob Dylan tunes. I would mess around and write my own songs when I was in boarding school. At the age of thirteen I was sent to boarding school in California, so I was exposed to all kinds of music in those early years, from
netal, reggae and rock to hip hop. Years later I studied an Electronic Music Diploma and Bachelor of Audio Engineering at SAE.” (Australia’s leading creative media institute)
“I’m not sure about highlights, as far as accolades go...
I was previously signed to Universal Music Australia, and I’ve been in studios writing with some huge international and local artist, in addition to being previously managed by one of the biggest writing managers in Australia.
I suppose that sounds really cool, but honestly for me, the personal highlight would be my more recent music and videos I’ve released and produced under Driftwood.
The nuance and overall creative aesthetic have been crafted with particular care.
I had a vision to be a multi-disciplined storyteller and I’ve always loved artists that could express
themselves across several paradigms. My skill set as a Singer songwriter / Producer / Director / Editor
came through organic grown and work as an artist. I was studying my audio engineering degree while
working part time shooting directing/editing real estate videos on the side for money.
I always had a very clear creative vision, so I was adamant that I had to be one to direct and edit my
own video clips as well. At the end of the day, I thought ‘I have to build it exactly as I see it.’
“It was interesting because this track was initially a freestyle that sat in my hard drive. I then came
back to it years later and thought I should try and build on the production,
This single is about breaking the fourth wall. It’s about the idea that there could be subterranean
energies and other factors operating within other paradigms of consciousness. It’s about feeling like
I’m trapped within this paradigm, and I don’t belong here.
The one thing I love about art is I have a license to explore ideas …no matter how crazy they may
seem. It is fascinating to me that whole genres of music can reside within the confines of three concepts and identities.”
“Hard to say as I listen to a lot of esoteric music, and in honesty, I don’t really listen to albums all the
way through anymore on a regular basis. The art of creating a timeless album is dying so it’s an
interesting question. Here are some more well-known albums that are timeless to me. But this isn’t a
reflection of what I would listen to on a regular basis.”
Bob Marley - Best of
Sam Cooke - Greatest Hits
Kanye - Watch the Throne
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Adele - 21
Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
Nas - Illmatic
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Drake - Nothing was the same
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Bon Iver - For Emma, For Ever Ago
“I’m keen to share a lot of new work in 2022! I’ll be heading overseas to work on music and I’m also
excited to play live.”
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Interview by Kelly Munro / End Of The Trail Creative