- 2024-10-25
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Anna B Savage Announces New Album “You & i are Earth”, Shares New Song “Agnes” featuring Anna Mieke
London-based singer-songwriter Anna B Savage has announced her third studio album “You & i are Earth” will be released on January 24, 2025 via City Slang.
The album comprises 10 songs, featuring a guest appearance from Irish singer-songwriter Anna Mieke, produced by John 'Spud' Murphy.
From the album, she released a new song “Agnes” featuring Anna Mieke on October 24, 2024.
The track was written by Anna B Savage and produced by John 'Spud' Murphy. The accompanying music video was directed by Anna B Savage herself.
She said of the song, “This song is inspired by Irish folklore, therapy practice, and a tweet. In therapy we had been meditating and visualizing, a practice that is in turns frightening and deeply comforting. Concurrently, I was reading about Selkies and Faeries, and it was when I read this tweet that I felt the folklore melding with my own personal therapeutic experiences. That moment of potential relief followed by a deep terror, and the act of turning your clothes inside out to release your entrapment from the 'stray sod'.”- She continued, “This song – or rather Agnes herself – is an embodiment of the fascination and fear, the joy and the reverence I felt in these lessons. At once benevolent and kind 'you can come here any time', and deeply frightening 'she's tucking me [under the ground]… leaving me over here' I felt like I was trying to learn how to be content holding multiplicities all at once and being okay with it. I struggled to think of people who could be Agnes's voice, and suddenly I realised Anna Mieke was perfect, I adore her music, and her vocals/lyrics are in turns delicate and ethereal, powerful and a little uncanny. I am so grateful to her for taking on this wild song and making Agnes come to life.”
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The new album is ger first project since the 2023 album “inFLUX” and features contributions from Kate Ellis and Caimin Gilmore of Crash Ensemble, Cormac MacDiarmada of Lankum, and Mieke offering vocals, strings, harmonium, bouzouki, taishōgoto, and clarinets.
Anna B Savage said of the album as “a love letter to a man and to Ireland.”
She continued, “When I was writing the first record, it felt difficult. I wanted to make sense of something I didn't really understand. Then with the second record I had done some therapy, and was getting to grips with myself, but my old self was still pulling me back a bit, but with this one it was quite different.”
Background photo by Katie Silvester - source : Apple Music
