Small Friendly Giant Anna.Luca

• 1Hallonsommar03:45
• 2Hot Earth04:37
• 3Lost City06:40
• 4The Giant06:56
• 5Take Your Armor Off05:09
• 6Sea of Sorrow05:51
• 7House of Wood06:34
• 8All Long Gone05:46
• 9Follow the White Rabbit04:58
• Total Runtime50:16

Info for Small Friendly Giant

Coming from a family of classical musicians, the german-swedish singer and composer Anna:Luca started her musical career early at the piano.

As a teenager, the classical trained pianist searched for a more free and direct form of expression and discovered her voice and songwriting as the right form for her artistry. She experimented with Hip Hop, Electronica, listened a lot to Tom Waits and fell in love with Jazz.

While studying at the Artez conservatory in Arnhem, Netherlands, she was discovered by the well-known Nu-Jazz project C L U B D E S B E L U G A S. Their first collaboration SWOP was followed up by six more studio albums, several collaborations with other Nu Jazz Artists and a few years of extensive touring all over the world. In 2013 her first solo-album “Listen And Wait“ (chinchin records) was released. An album like a time capsule – full of memories, detailed observations of the world inside and around her. For her second solo-album Anna.Luca has joined up with producer and composer Rasmus Zschoch. Together they started to draw more heavily from electronic music again, using electronic instrumentation to contrast her lyrical melodies and the depth of her storytelling. The Album LOVE will be released in spring 2021.

With her new project SMALL FRIENDLY GIANT she combines the simplicity of scandinavian folk music with the liberty of Modern Jazz. Together with Pianist Roman Babik, bass and guitar player Hanno Busch and drummer Yonga Sun, she is searching for musical and lyrical freedom, as much as for unpretentious transparency. Playful at one moment, expressive and intense at the next, they always know how to stay grounded.

The Album SMALL FRIENDLY GIANT will be release in November 2020 on Frutex Tracks.

Apart from her own projects Anna.Luca has been working as a freelance composer and songwriter. She has written music for motion pictures, short-films as well as for several TV shows.

Anna.Luca, Gesang
Roman Babik, Klavier
Hanno Busch, Bass Gitarre
Yonga Sun, Schlagzeug

Anna.Luca
The swedish-german singer and composer Anna.Luca grew up in a family of classical musicians, with her piano as her constant companion. As a classical trained pianist, she always searched for more direct and open forms of expression. She experimented with electronic music and pop and fell in love with jazz.

Anna.Luca finds great joy in ignoring and bending genre borders. Her new record SMALL FRIENDLY GIANT is there for first of all a journey to trace her own roots – a musical journey through her own biography. Like her two languages, classical music, pop and jazz are inseparably woven together with the musical tradition of her swedish heritage. Anna.Luca has poured her own history into her music and has given it the melodical abstraction, that you can only find in jazz if you let it run free. Structure and outbreak alternate, improvisations are followed by pre-composed, polyphone structures. Scandinavian-melancholy melodies and complex rhythmical structures can unfold together organically. Anna.Luca and her Band are searching for musical and lyrical freedom, as much as for unpretentious transparency. Playful at one moment, expressive and intense in the next. Fairytales blur together with long gone memories, urban complexity change into dark woods and in it all lies the wish to catch life´s entirety in a single glimpse of a moment.

This album contains no booklet.