Dear Andrew,
Hello there, I am Anna and I have wanted to share some videos where I read my songwriting/poetry work to you and sing a little; some are your songs as well as more music I love.
This is to say thank you for your presence in my life these past few years. Your work has helped and guided me in multiple ways, even before I could start grasping its depths.
Many of the songs/poems I share were written with your work in mind and I wanted to make them available to you, were you ever interested in collaborating. The rest of my website has photo and video work. I also have a bit of animation and mixed media here: https://sites.google.com/view/annahendersonvisualart
Later I will also post some paintings I’ve created with your music and some tracks I’ve recently worked on, playing with loops and natural sounds.
I apologize for the many mess-ups - I’m still learning to control my Voice...
I’ll be posting on this page for a few days so there is more coming.
Thank you and have a very Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year!
Intro
Night Swim - 2024
54x28 cm
Acrylic on Wood
Third Avenue
Shrike
Everything Rhymes (private link)
The Acrobats
Wasteland Baby
Trust
Fever
Chatter
(private link)
On Silence
(Private link)
Dear Andrew,
Although it brings me anxiety because of our aggressive world, I have admired your stance for Palestinian rights. I have spent a little time in the West Bank and still foster a dear friendship with a family of wonderful musicians and educators. For a while I was active towards spreading awareness to their cause. Then for a while I became silent.
I wish not to live in this silent space anymore.
I wanted to share these words with you, and you may use them as you see fit in your own work, or we might revise them together.
As for all of the songs and poems I’m sharing.
Thank you,
A
Your Song
(Private Link)
Today, and as we approach the end of my shares for the time being, I ve shared two more poems above, “Waking” and “More Than Rigid” and also wanted to send a small home recording session where I sing along with some of my favorite artists. It’s still very undaring singing but it is fun after all.
Listed below are the songs I have chosen, so you can listen to their grandeur properly.
Happy New Year Dear Andrew,
I wish you a beautiful year 2025
Here are a couple of tracks I have produced recently while attending a digital recording intro class. The first is an experimental track where I’ve recorded myself tapping, the sound of the tram train in Nice, where I was born, and the thunder to make a heartbeat + other natural sounds like crickets and a ticking clock. Also added in there are some Japanese drums loops and singing bowls to make bell sounds.
The second is a mix I created with my selection from varied loops made available to us by our instructor.
Dear Andrew,
Today I am posting some more paintings that I have created with your music. These two, as well as another which I’ve added on the top of this page, called “Night Swim”
To see more paintings, you can go here:
Day of The Knight - 2024
45x72 cm
Acrylic on Wood
From Eden (private link)
Dear Andrew,
This is the end of my shares for the time being.
I hope that these have made their way to you and that they provided a little fun and a little joy.
I have had such a great time myself creating all of this, thanks to being inspired by you and other wonderful musicians and I am looking forward to the next few months, hopefully going to see more live music, and expressing myself, even more freely.
I send you my love and I hope to hear from you one day
I wish you all of the best for this new year, may it bring you all that you wish for,
Anna.
Anna Henderson
contact@annabellehenderson.com
+1 401 829 9307
400 Third Beach Rd
Middletown, RI
USA
Fav Songs Combo (private link)
Both Sides Now (private link)
Hanuman - 2024
45x72 cm
Acrylic on Wood
I wrote “On The Bus To Boston” years ago, probably back in 2017, and it was inspired by singer/songwriter Valerie June after I heard her set at the Newport Folk Fest