ANNA WOLF ‘Mother’ single/video

“It’s OK To Not Be OK”

Anna Wolf images (c) Paul Harries https://www.paulharries.com/

Available now on all streaming platforms https://linktr.ee/RealAnnaWolf

‘Mother’ is a powerful new song from the star shaped, multi-talent-tasking, Anna Wolf,

Tunefully heartfelt, the aim is to be an enigmatic salve where grief from loss, in it’s many forms, comes from so many angles.

The result is a stark and beautiful comfort which reaches out with winter cool chords and solace warm vocals that are simultaneously fragile, strong and lyrically relatable;

“I don’t wanna breathe when you’re not here”

‘Mother’ is for the many.

“As some of you may know, this is a very personal song for me, I wanted to capture the raw essence of grief and acknowledging that it's okay to not be okay... I have lost a few very close people to me over the past three years and it has not been easy”.

The song serves as a source of solace and hope if you are struggling to move forward after losing a loved one, reminding you that you are not alone and that healing is possible, even with a broken heart."

Anna Wolf

Click here for the video for ‘Mother’

The video is a short film at one with itself, the song and performance. A personal artist and audience one-to-one feeling is created by the cinematic simplicity of being filmed with music photography legend, Paul Harries; one on one:

One camera, one tripod and one torch creating one sonic drama. The trust from their friendship and working relationship makes for personal viewing.

Multi-talent tasking?

There are many layers to Anna Wolf, an artist who has achieved much but still has more to be revealed.

The eternal invention of presenting soundscapes being one facet. Then there’s the experience of Anna Wolf’s live show: A main stage drama. Hooked and down the front again for the launch of Kick Out The Jams new venue (Two Palms at Hackney Empire) recently. Anna Wolf and her band are a world class rock show! - Room. Stunned. Again.

Forever Young

As 2024 looms, Anna Wolf‘s big-screen debut is the (already award winning) new movie ‘Forever Young’. (FB movie trailer)

An imaginative sci-fi drama, directed by Hank Pretorius. It’s currently showing in USA and Canada - with South African screenings in December. Anna Wolf’s music is on the soundtrack, a perfect setting for such cinematic sound.

An Artist to investigate but also look forward to

‘Mother’, is it’s own short film and could, in many ways, be a song for the loss of the world that we thought we knew. For many, this decade, especially…

The lasting impression of the song, which prompted this feedback article, is a balance between outpouring and resilience. Empathetic art like this, transports us to future hopes. All is not lost.

Driftwood, the Bremfields interview.

Driftwood is an exciting artist from Australia who's brand new single, 'Bremfields', is quite rightly attracting a lot of attention.

We had to find out more, and asked:

How long have you been making music?

Driftwood: “I’ve been making music in some capacity or another since I was a kid. My dad first gave me an old acoustic guitar when I was eleven and taught me to play a few Bob Dylan tunes. I would mess around and write my own songs when I was in boarding school. At the age of thirteen I was sent to boarding school in California, so I was exposed to all kinds of music in those early years, from
netal, reggae and rock to hip hop. Years later I studied an Electronic Music Diploma and Bachelor of Audio Engineering at SAE.” (Australia’s leading creative media institute)

What’s been some of the highlights so far on your musical journey?

“I’m not sure about highlights, as far as accolades go...

I was previously signed to Universal Music Australia, and I’ve been in studios writing with some huge international and local artist, in addition to being previously managed by one of the biggest writing managers in Australia.

I suppose that sounds really cool, but honestly for me, the personal highlight would be my more recent music and videos I’ve released and produced under Driftwood.

The nuance and overall creative aesthetic have been crafted with particular care.

I had a vision to be a multi-disciplined storyteller and I’ve always loved artists that could express
themselves across several paradigms. My skill set as a Singer songwriter / Producer / Director / Editor
came through organic grown and work as an artist. I was studying my audio engineering degree while
working part time shooting directing/editing real estate videos on the side for money.

I always had a very clear creative vision, so I was adamant that I had to be one to direct and edit my
own video clips as well. At the end of the day, I thought ‘I have to build it exactly as I see it.’

New single, ’Bremfield’ - Is there a meaning behind the song?

“It was interesting because this track was initially a freestyle that sat in my hard drive. I then came
back to it years later and thought I should try and build on the production,

This single is about breaking the fourth wall. It’s about the idea that there could be subterranean
energies and other factors operating within other paradigms of consciousness. It’s about feeling like
I’m trapped within this paradigm, and I don’t belong here.

The one thing I love about art is I have a license to explore ideas …no matter how crazy they may
seem. It is fascinating to me that whole genres of music can reside within the confines of three concepts and identities.”

What albums do you never get tired of listening to?

“Hard to say as I listen to a lot of esoteric music, and in honesty, I don’t really listen to albums all the
way through anymore on a regular basis. The art of creating a timeless album is dying so it’s an
interesting question. Here are some more well-known albums that are timeless to me. But this isn’t a
reflection of what I would listen to on a regular basis.”

Bob Marley - Best of
Sam Cooke - Greatest Hits
Kanye - Watch the Throne
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Adele - 21
Kanye - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Weeknd - House of Balloons
Nas - Illmatic
Skepta - Konnichiwa
Drake - Nothing was the same
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Bon Iver - For Emma, For Ever Ago

What can we expect from you this year?

“I’m keen to share a lot of new work in 2022! I’ll be heading overseas to work on music and I’m also
excited to play live.”

The single: ‘Bremfield’ by Driftwood

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Interview by Kelly Munro / End Of The Trail Creative

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New Year's Revolutions

The Latest Picture Book - Dec’20-Jan’21

Sun 14th March 2021: "Hallo. We are TheZineUK. We are seven years of situationist, whimsical rock'n'roll artbeat poet lifestyle. The musical." We Are A New Sanse!

Except Sunday wasn't about us. It was about the women of (?) “Poundland” / “Povonia” / “Lepercoloniski” (?)  (seriously, what is Brexitannia's real name these days? "united" and "great" this nation sure ain't - but we can’t stick with Plague Island forever! Anyway, International Women’s Day is eternally every day for anybody who is onside.

Mon 15th March : The Ides were ‘ideous! #PolicingBill hell is, of course, going ahead.

Tues 16th March : In our parallel dimension we are inspired by the cast and crew of our story.

Most of them are our friends and many of them will know where this tale is coming from. Between us all, we have woven an almost-Almost Famous tapestry of golden threads which make increasing sense as a movie script. The latest picture book has been uploaded, what happens next? In seven years of kismet and riffs we have come a long and twisted way. Literally feeling sentimental like the faces on our pages are beloved characters in a real life folklore story of heroic every day people.

Season 1

(innocent-ish passions meeting at live music adventures). We launched New Year 2014 with punk art poetry on Tin Pan Alley, Soho, Central London. Mid March 2014 we uploaded Chapter 1 of the diary doc and went on a road trip of creativity and serendipity. It was the yellow brick road of highs and lows which led to the Music People Party in December 2017. Slideshow: Season 1 of 2021 cast/crew video clips.

Season 2

By 2018, you couldn't make it up how delectable DIY in dystopia was empowering a theatric fertile environment despite the increasingly hostile environment of reality's backdrop.

In 2019, the seeds, watered with love, accidental comedy and noisy funshine began to bloom. Then we awoke to the 2020 vision with many of the one race, humans, revealing themselves. Some inadvertedly.

Through the latest picture book December 2020 to 31st January 2021 - for many of us, although we are dividing, these shared experiences (including being uplifted by the arts, while despairing of cruel corruption) bring us together in different ways to gigs.

Cue the wealth of artists, their audiences, allies: photographers, writers, presenters, DJs, dreamers, producers,  film makers, dancers, promoters, technicians, designers, poets and cottage industry of crews. If TheZineUK doc is untrue then nobody will recognise the charismatic characters in our tales.

2021's Zeenagers ARE the Music People Party and beyond, plus new friends keep coming.

The latest upload is a melting pot picture house of Amanda Gorman, The Rezner, Bugeye, Simon Price, Cool Thing Records, Birthmarks, BLAB, Mourning Birds, Gavin Monaghan, Asylums, The Mysterines, John Robb, Music Venue Trust, End Of The Trail Creative, Travellers Tunes, Peace And Justice, Drilly, Sick Love, False Heads, A Cause In Distress, Coach Party, Emily Capell, Lock-In and OBTV with the wonderful Nadia Sheikh as our cover star. We’ve actually seen/met most of the people concerned, in the flesh, over the years.

Serious shout outs to the New Year (r)Evolution, escapism have never been needed so badly. Not so sure how long TheZineUK will last though. We are a nuisance. Headed up by working class women of non-elite heritages we're more Rocking Pebble than Rolling Stone but have gate crashed and blagged alongside all the kind invitations and access, to bring a story unlike anything else.

Our stars, yeah you heard, STARS, twinkle hard. They possess stages, not ages (Generation Tremorists of uniqulture are children of all ages). Our Newer Wave of Interdepent music industrious confuse the corporate. Vintage rockers bring the experience and anecdotes while teens and 20-somethings are the sussed marketing heads of the next biz, already. This frees the artists to break through between school and pension like music was the life long calling that it really is.

Season 3

We rebooted in Love Month 2021 (a.k.a. February) with the Lunar(tic?) New Year but also tinges of hope. No way would we stop reporting on the genuine stars rising under the radar despite everything. What happens next? We all decide.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Hallo Bright Pink CatWalk...