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MY NAME IS ANN! is a solo project of Lenka Morávková ⁄ Knoflenka (vocals, saxophone, children piano, midi keyboard); for more than a year now, she has been playing together with the singer and keyboardist Šárka Kobzová (children piano, synth, vocals) at live shows. The second album called The WorLd Is My oysTer captures the author’s crucial themes of the last two years, turning them into full-blown epic compositions, dealing with such subjects as de/formation by places and relationships, ecology of one’s own life, wandering in the open, city as a social trap, perception through technologies and touch of hands, rural tunes and honking cars at a crossing. What life conditions are we willing to adapt to? First compositions were recorded by Knoflenka in 2008 at a summer house in Hlásná Třebáň near Prague; more recent songs were recorded in Huesca, Spain, during her artist-in-residence scholarship in the spring of 2009. The album was mixed and mastered by New Yor...
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