Anna Homler
House of Hands
© 2000 Anna Homler and ND
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The often-brooding lines conjure up dark images. Homler whispers and seduces with her voice, and the electronics state an eerie case on this unusually crafted recording. It is disconcertedly bewitching.
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- 1 Jungle Cake
- 2 Fingerhut
- 3 Oo-ee
- 4 Robot Love Song
- 5 Barcata
- 6 Rue Clarisse
- 7 Ejo Wob'co
- 8 Die Hande
- 9 E'sha Ko'la Kee'yo
- 10 Pillow Song
- 11 Rosale
- 12 Dosomeli
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"Homler is a Los Angeles-based performance artist in whose work visual art plays a central role. In all of her work, Homler creates a persona who expresses herself in a newly invented language that appears to be rife with tradition, ritual, ceremony and a culture all it's own. The language is couched in lyrical and somewhat exotic melodies sung with a pure vocal style sans vibrato, which gives the work an ambience of an authentic folk tradition. Homler's voice is pleasant and accurate. The delivery, ever so slightly nasal, alludes to a non-Western culture and might be likened to that of the now famous Bulgarian women's choral music."
Option Magazine
"...a witch with a few home brewed spells an a ray gun...", "...a singer who can take an audience by the hand and lead them along the weird path between atmospherics and surreal humour."
Resonance
"...disconcertedly bewitching."
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Alien Tongues
author: ethereal_ladWhat sets Homler apart from other practioners of "mouth music" (Liz Frasier, Lisa Gerrard, Azam Ali, Deidre Dubois) is the glacial, alien quality of her vocals. She also speaks in her invented tongue. The backing tracks are miminalist tribal--very percusive, with sci-fi sound effects. Homler's chattering, singing voice rises above the cacophony like a human theremin. In her brittle tones, you hear the whispering of sorceress, the unuttered though, the declamations of politicians, the outrage of the opressed. It's a fascinating listening experience.