Anna Homler

Anna Homler is a vocal, visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She sings in an improvised melodic language of her own creation, and has performed around the globe with a wide range of collaborators. Anna’s original music is “both ancient and post-modern.” Its deep earthly origins are evident, yet it’s tied to no genre or classification. She appeared on a dozen recordings between the 1980s and early 2000s.

However, one definitive recording was seemingly lost in archives without a publisher for nearly two decades. Produced during an artist residency at Jack Straw Cultural Center in collaboration with several of Seattle’s finest improvisers, the album Reverie is at last available, through Right Brain Records. Its 13 tracks showcase the alternate musical universe of Anna’s creation.

Hear Reverie on Bandcamp.

Reverie was recorded over four days in April, 2008. The album’s supporting cast includes:

  • Amy Denio - voice

  • Bill Horist - acoustic guitar

  • Elizabeth Falconer - koto

  • Lori Goldston - cello

  • Susie Kozawa - voice

  • Ikue Mori - elctronics

  • Steve Peters - suling gambuh, piano, percussion

Steve Peters also produced the recording.

 

Post-session: Bill, Anna, Susie, Lori, Elizabeth.

 
 
“Variously quaint and cutting, charming and provocative, and utterly musical and engaging.”
— Option Magazine
“Homler seems to sing in the forgotten dialect from some past life or world... disconcertedly bewitching.”
— Cadence

Photo by Helen Van Der Neer