Portland Artist & Composer Ann Annie Releases Fifth Full-Length Album ‘The Wind’; Announces Fall Tour

 Today, Portland composer and multi-instrumentalist Eli Goldberg, better known by the name Ann Annie, releases his anticipated new album The Wind. Over the course of thirteen songs, Ann Annie builds upon the minimalist and pastoral approach he’s become known for. With a mix of acoustic instruments and modular synthesizers, he’s been lauded for his contributions to both folk and electronic music. On, The Wind, Ann Annie’s explorations are delicate yet playful with some compositions lasting mere minutes yet carrying a wave of expression. With song titles like “Silver Creek,” “The Wind,” “Cottonwood,” and “Sweet Coast,” he also evokes the beauty of the Oregon landscape where he lives.

Eli explains: “My 4th full length LP The Wind has been the longest album project I’ve worked on. It reflects upon the feeling of letting go, and the nature of how change and growth moves us. The imagination of being a something, or someone that can only be pushed by the wind.”

LISTE & SHARE THE WIND HERE:
https://annannie.ffm.to/thewind_album

Ann Annie’s The Wind is quietly transformative music that achieves a rarified intersection of subtlety and pure transcendence. The fourth record and Nettwerk debut from Portland-based musician Eli Goldberg conjures pastoral ambience through delicate yet weighty arrangements and warm, enveloping melodies—all possessing the entrancing effect of watching snow fall slowly on the horizon, or leaves spiraling in a miniature ground gust. These eleven songs are a showcase for Goldberg’s deeply felt songwriting and accomplished musicianship, charting new territory for the Ann Annie project while also refining past influences in search of blissful unvisited horizons.

The Wind is the latest sonic evolution for Goldberg, who started playing music at the age of 5 after a babysitter brought over a Casio piano to his house. After graduating early from high school to focus on music full-time, he dove headfirst into self-recording with his sad. rad project, which started as an exploration of indie rock’s trappings before Goldberg discovered the wonders of modular synthesizers. “I’ve always loved synths since I saw a picture of Daft Punk’s modular synth setup,” he recalls. All the while, Goldberg continued to gravitate towards the world of ambient music, taking particular cues of inspiration from the Album Leaf’s seminal 2004 classic In a Safe Place: “I didn’t even know it was ambient at that point, I just knew it was music I’d never heard before.”

The Wind represents the convergence of Goldberg’s ambient leanings, his lifelong love of classical music, and the radiant tones of cosmic instrumental folk music like James Blackshaw and William Tyler. It was recorded in his Portland home (“I love to weave in house sounds”) and the creative process was inspired by time off from making music, which allowed him to rethink what Ann Annie represented to him as a project. “I started to expand my idea of what it could be, which was an exciting experience,” he explains. “It gave me time to think about how things change and how to move through change—what that looks like for me. I wrote a lot of these songs in an attempt to let go of a lot of things, while being OK with doing so.”

Ann Annie – The Wind TRACKLIST:

1. Opening
2. With Violet
3. Sweet Coast
4. Aviary Reverie (Waltz in No. 2 in C)
5. Introduction
6. The Wind
7. Lamb’s Ear
8. Interlude
9. Willows
10. Drift Creek
11. Silver Creek
12. Cottonwood
13. Three Chords