"This bafflingly brilliant Brazilian's 'sci-fi torch songs' sound like jungle music from a galaxy far, far away"
-Paul Lester, The Guardian

"It’s absolutely stunning...This is a music that is completely its own... “Last Night, I Lit the Moon” is a subtle, but ambitiously bold marrying of human possibility and the concept album. Anna-Anna is everything and nothing in these songs. As soon as you begin to build a picture of this fictive nom de plume, she disappears behind macabre melody, shadowy lyricism and unearthly imagination. These tracks come highly recommended"
- Their Bated Breath

"Lyrically, it's David Bowie meets Scott Walker: Anna-Anna's creations aren't just songs, they're poems that will take a breath or two out of you. The pieces in Last Night I Lit The Moon may come from a very personal place, but they also speak to the universal human experience. Perhaps the best way to describe her music is in her own words: "Basically the idea that we can re-organize "reality" according to our dreams, not the other way around ... the idea that music provides alternate models of existence that can be inhabited by anyone."
- NPR.org

"Warm and ambitious recordings, a sonic construction where simplicity meets magnificent complex structures. Beautiful recreations of the unconscious by a poet in a dark, enigmatic planet ruled by tornadoes, crystals and the desert; evocative of the great French singers of the sixties and seventies like Françoise Hardy, and other hand, feline and experimental...a collection of stylized songs full of expressionism, avant-pop textures and noir fantasies." -Felinno blog (*spanish translation my own)

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FYI stuff I listen to/"influences"

Diane Keaton as Annie Hall singing, Peggy Lee, Beat Happening, St Etienne, Tindesticks, Portishead, Beak>, Anika, Ingrid Caven, Marlene Dietrich, Nico ♥, Marianne Faithfull ♥, Maria Braun, Patti Smith, Martin Hannett, Spiritualized, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds, Mick Harvey, Rowland S Howard, Crime & City Solution, John Barry, Serge Gainsbourg, Bill Callahan, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Ornella Vanoni, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Leonard Cohen, Vashti Bunyan, Gal, Caetano (60s-mid 80's), Mutantes, Rita Lee, Rogério Duprat, Vince Clarke, Arthur Russell, Cat Power, Dusty Springfield, Antony Hegarty, Goldfrapp, Juliette Gréco, Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot, Jacqueline Taïeb, Charles Trenet, Bertrand Burgalat & anything at Tricatel records, 60’s french pop, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, Yazoo, Dusty Springfield, Maysa, Elis Regina, Donna Regina, Cartola ♥, Edwyn Collins, Daniel Johnston, Magazine, New Order, The Smiths, Morrisey, Jesus & Mary Chain, women in Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Fassbinder films, Lee Hazlewood, Scott Walker. Perfume Genius, The XX, Jamie XX, Dirty Beaches, Wild Nothing, Shocking Pinks, Maria Minerva, “style culture”, Dolce Gabbana ads from the 90’s, I-D magazine early 90's.

If you have questions let me know at annaannahello at gmail dot com