Antony and the Johnsons

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Anohni (2008, then Antony Hegarty)
Anohni (2008, then Antony Hegarty )
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
I am a bird now
  AT 71 07/24/2005 (1 week)
  UK 16 
gold
gold
05/28/2005 (17 weeks)
Another world
  US 179 10/25/2008 (1 week)
The crying light
  DE 15th 01/30/2009 (5 weeks)
  AT 21st 01/30/2009 (6 weeks)
  CH 7th 02/01/2009 (7 weeks)
  UK 18th January 31, 2009 (3 weeks)
  US 65 02/07/2009 (3 weeks)
Swanlights
  DE 29 10/22/2010 (2 weeks)
  AT 30th 10/22/2010 (3 weeks)
  CH 32 October 24, 2010 (3 weeks)
  UK 28 23/10/2010 (2 weeks)
  US 122 10/30/2010 (1 week)
Cut the world
  DE 27 08/17/2012 (2 weeks)
  AT 24 08/17/2012 (2 weeks)
  CH 27 08/19/2012 (3 weeks)
  UK 41 08/18/2012 (1 week)
Hopelessness (only Anohni)
  DE 29 05/13/2016 (2 weeks)
  AT 28 05/20/2016 (2 weeks)
  CH 17th 05/15/2016 (3 weeks)
  UK 26th 05/19/2016 (2 weeks)
  US 121 05/28/2016 (1 week)
Singles
Hope There's Someone
  UK 44 05/28/2005 (5 weeks)
You are my sister
  UK 39 12/03/2005 (4 weeks)

Antony and the Johnsons is an American band from New York around the singer , songwriter and pianist Anohni (Antony Hegarty). Anohni is also an artist.

biography

Anohni is transgender , she was born as Antony Hegarty in Chichester , Sussex ( England ) in 1971 . She moved to Amsterdam with her parents in 1977 before the family settled in California the following year . As a teenager, she became enthusiastic about contemporary British synthpop , especially the soulful Torch Song performers like Marc Almond and Boy George . In 1990 she moved to Manhattan , where she founded the Blacklips artistic association with partner Johanna Constantine .

When the British neofolk musician David Tibet heard a demo from Current 93 , the latter offered to release Antony's music on his Durtro label . The first release was a split CD in 2000 with a song each from Current 93 ( Immortal Bird ) and the track Cripple And The Starfish by Antony And The Johnsons. The debut album Antony and the Johnsons was released shortly thereafter. She referred the band name to the New York transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson . An EP followed in 2001, I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy , which, in addition to the title track, contains the cover version of a David Lynch / Angelo Badalamenti song and a Current 93 song.

After the producer Hal Willner heard the EP and presented it to Lou Reed , Antony immediately recruited for his project The Raven . In the wake of the growing attention Antony received, she signed on to the US label Secretly Canadian , where she released another EP called The Lake , on which Lou Reed was a guest on one of the tracks. In addition, Secretly Canadian released the debut album again in 2004, with which this reached a wider audience. The second full-length album - I Am a Bird Now (2005) - received critical acclaim, including the UK's Mercury Music Prize .

Antony's voice has been compared to singers like Billie Holiday , Nina Simone, and Otis Redding . Numerous prominent admirers, including Philip Glass , Marc Almond, Lou Reed, Devendra Banhart and the guest singers Boy George and Rufus Wainwright who appear on I Am a Bird Now , appreciate Antony's work.

Hegarty can be heard as a guest singer on the album Volta by the Icelandic singer Björk, which was released in 2007 . In two songs ( The Dull Flame of Desire ; My Juvenile ) Hegarty sings in a duet with Björk. In 2008 Hegarty sang the song Will I Ever Learn? With Herbert Grönemeyer . for his best-of album Was muss muss ein. In 2008 she also worked on the music project Hercules and Love Affair . The album The Crying Light was released on January 19, 2009 . The first single from this album, entitled Another World , was released on October 10, 2008. The Swanlights announced months before with eleven new songs was released punctually on October 10, 2010. With Fletta it contains a duet with Björk. A forerunner EP was released in August 2010, which only contained the song Thank You for Your Love (also available as a video) from the current album , as well as a cover version by Imagine . Swedish DJ Avicii produced a house version of Hope There's Someone for his debut album True . Swedish Idol participant Linnea Henriksson contributed the text .

Antony Hegarty has been called Anohni since 2015 and has been producing music under this name ever since. On May 6, 2016, she released the album Hopelessness under this name .

In 2016, Anohni's artistic, painterly and graphic work was exhibited for the first time in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld .

She also works with Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never .

style

The songs by Antony and the Johnsons are ballads that are mostly played in chamber music with piano, cello, violins and acoustic guitars, and now and then also drums and electric bass. They are dominated by Anohni's extraordinary voice. The songs are consistently very melancholy , tell of the strangeness in the world, of wistful moments of love and of the desire to be someone else and thus to be free. Anohni also indirectly addresses her life situation as an intersex person. The very sentimental song Cripple and the Starfish is part of the soundtrack of the ARD- Tatort episode "Sleeping Beauty Revenge".

Discography

Albums

  • Antony and the Johnsons (Durtro 2000; Secretly Canadian 2004) in Europe on Cargo Records
  • I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian 2005) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • The Crying Light (Secretly Canadian 2009) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • Swanlights (Rough Trade / Beggars Group / Indigo 2010)
  • Cut the World (2012) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • Del suo veloce volo (2013) on Universal Music, recording of a concert with Franco Battiato
  • Turning (2014) in Europe on Rough Trade Records, live music CD and film DVD with performance by Charles Atlas
  • Hopelessness (2016, only Anohni)

EPs and singles

  • Cripple And The Starfish (Durtro 2000), split CD with Current 93
  • I Fell in Love with a Dead Boy (Durtro 2001)
  • The Lake (Secretly Canadian 2004)
  • Hope There's Someone (Secretly Canadian 2004) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • You Are My Sister (Secretly Canadian 2005) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • Whose Are These / Tears Tears Tears (NO 7 "Hot Rod Magazine 31 2006)
  • Another World (Secretly Canadian 2008) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • Aeon / Crazy in Love (Secretly Canadian 2009) in Europe on Rough Trade Records
  • Anohni: 4 Degrees (2015)

Video clips

  • Hope There's Someone (2005, directed by Glen Fogel)
  • You Are My Sister (2005, directed by Charles Atlas)
  • Cripple and the Starfish (2006, directed by Claire Carré)
  • Another World (2008, directed by Colin Whitaker)
  • Epilepsy Is Dancing (2009, director: AFAS)
  • Thank You for Your Love (2010, directed by David Boatman)

Guest appearances

  • Poison on Tales Of A Grass Widow by CocoRosie (2013)
  • Tears For Animals on Tales Of A Grass Widow by CocoRosie (2013)
  • Prisoner auf See the Light (2010) by Jessica 6 (colleague Nomi Ruiz from Hercules and Love Affair )
  • Forgiveness on Heart by Elisa Toffoli (2009)
  • Beautiful Boyz on Noah's Ark by CocoRosie (2009)
  • I Was Young When I Left Home Duet with Bryce Dessner on Dark Was the Night Compilation (2009)
  • as a duet partner in the song Will I Ever Learn on Herbert Grönemeyer's Best of album Was muss muss (2008)
  • Otto; or, Up with Dead People by Bruce LaBruce
  • Blind and other tracks on the album of the same name by Hercules & Love Affair (2008)
  • The Snow Abides , How God Moved at Twilight and Your Eyes Close on The Snow Abides by Michael Cashmore (2007)
  • Knockin 'on Heaven's Door on I'm-Not-There soundtrack (2007)
  • as a duet partner in the song Beauty on Linda Thompson's album Versatile Heart (2007)
  • Dull Flame of Desire and My Juvenile on Björks Volta (2007)
  • All There Is to Tell on Golden Boy by Reuben Butchart (2007)
  • Bird Gerhl on V for Vendetta Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)
  • If It Be Your Will on Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Motion Picture Soundtrack (2006)
  • Nighttime and Morning on Desert Donuts by Metallic Falcons (2006)
  • Idumæa and The Beautiful Dancing Dust on Black Ships Ate the Sky by Current 93 (2006)
  • Semen Song for John Bidgood on The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of the Beast by Matmos (2006)
  • One More Try on the album Dial 0 by My Robot Friend (2006)
  • I Defy on the album Real Life by Joan as Police Woman (2006)
  • Don't Fall on If I Were You by Jason Hart (2005)
  • Happy X-mas (War Is Over) in a duet with Boy George Auf Help: A Day in the Life (2005)
  • Beautiful Boyz on CocoRosie's Noah's Ark (2005)
  • Old Whore's Diet on Rufus Wainwrights Want Two (2005)
  • Came So Far for Beauty Concert in honor of Leonard Cohen (2005)
  • Candy Says on Lou Reeds Animal Serenade (2004)
  • A Little Bit of Time on Red Tape by Brooks (2004)
  • You Stand Above Me , The Lake and Cripple and the Starfish on Live at St Olaves, Split EP with Current 93 (2003)
  • Calling for Vanished Faces I , This Carnival Is Dead and Gone and Virgin Mary , (PanDurtro, 2003) Split 7 "single with Current 93 (500 copies)
  • Perfect Day and Change on Lou Reed's album The Raven (2003)
  • Blood on the Door on Breadcrumb Sins by Jamie Saft (2003)
  • Whilst the Night Rejoices Profound and Still on Live at the Teatro Iberico by Current 93 (2003)

literature

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ Interview: Antony and the Johnsons. In: Velle. Retrieved September 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Steffen Greiner: New album from Oneohtrix Point Never: Technology longs for stupidity . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 1, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 1, 2018]).

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