The Wind That Had Not Touched Land represents a brief flash in time. It may be that the five musicians who make up Annie A never play together in this form again, so the document that we have here is a record of a fleeting moment.
Annie A is a collaboration between French musician, writer and artist Félicia Atkinson, poet Christina Petrie, London-based duo Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney (better known as Time is Away), and New Zealand/Aotearoa songwriter Maxine Funke. The far-flung geographical origins of the group is offset by a certain closeness, an intimacy that feels almost miraculous.
Opening track, ‘First the Crocus’, is a minimal, mantra-like meditation awash with background clatter and hiss. Its two-word refrain…
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