Helder by Annelies Monseré

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http://anneliesmonsere.bandcamp.com/album/helder

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FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:

ANNELIES MONSERÉ is a Belgian songwriter, currently living in Hilversum, the Netherlands. Her basic instruments are piano and voice. In some of her songs she also uses cello, guitar, melodica and glockenspiel. The simplicity of the melodies is not unlike EMPRESS, while the sound textures will remind the listener of MOVIETONE or TARA JANE O'NEIL.

'Helder' is Annelies' debut CD, though she also performs in the duo ZENT ONE (who have a split LP out w/ the brilliant CIRCLE BROS. on MORC). She has also done collabortation work with DREKKA and TOSS ((k-raa-k)3).

With ZENTONE and solo, she has performed mesmerizing concerts with the likes of MOVIETONE, CRESCENT, HOOD, DREKKA, RIVULETS, and TARA JANE O'NEIL.

She studied painting and is now studying history.

WHY BLUESANCT IS SO EXCITED ABOUT ANNELIES' 'HELDER' CD:

"Annelies' music is singular. It is not trying to be anything except honest and simple. She performs songs for voice and generally one instrument; piano, cello, guitar, or melodica. Sometimes there is only voice.

She is the first European artist on Bluesanct.

Like the other artists on Bluesanct and within the Day2 Alliance, she is a card-carrying member of romance, whose songs are expressions of love and hope and all the pain and fright that comes with trusting another person.

I had to sneak my first listens to her music behind her back. Her collaborator and my friend, Wim Lecluyse (who runs Morc) played it for myself, Nathan Amundson (of RIVULETS) and JESSICA BAILIFF (KRANKY) one afternoon because it was too powerful not to. We were stunned.

Drekka set out to try to perform these songs in my own voice, but only came a fraction of the way to being as vital.

I knew that this music needed to be part of the Bluesanct oeuvre, and so it is. And I couldn't be happier."
- Michael Anderson, April 2005.

RIYL: EMPRESS, MOVIETONE, TARA JANE O'NEIL, K.JOY, FUSCILLAGE, VOLLMAR

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Tracklist

1.	We'll Dance	2:27

2.	You Were On My Side (melodica)	1:54

3.	Sarah	3:59

4.	Midnight	1:05

5.	These Streets	3:45

6.	Here	3:48

7.	This Quiet Room	1:27

8.	Cold Night	4:18

9.	Early Rising	1:19

10.	You Were On My Side ('cello)	1:51

11.	Voices	2:14

12.	Wet	2:17

Credits

released July 15, 2005

Bluesanct (INRI078, 15 JUL 2005)
• CD = ltd to 500 copies (1st pressing / black ink)
• CD = ltd to 500 copies (2nd pressing / blue ink)
• DIGITAL = unlimited (via Annelies Monseré)

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Annelies Monseré
"Helder"

Piano, vocals, 'cello, melodica, guitar, glockenspiel, recording and songs by Annelies Monseré. Mixing by Wim Lecluyse.

1, 3, 4, 5 and 12 were recorded in Ingelmunster, Belgium, during the summer of 2002. The rest was recorded in Hilversum, The Netherlands, spring 2003- spring 2004.

Thank You: Wim Lecluyse, Sarah Carpentier, Nathan Amundson and Michael Anderson.

Art direction: Annelies Monseré and Michael Anderson.
Design by Michael Anderson for 4K Design.

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