On this album, Anaïs teams up with collaborator Jefferson Hamer to co-arrange old English and Scottish folk ballads from the Francis James Child collection. The recording, which was produced in Nashville by Gary Paczosa, is an intimate one, featuring a lot of close harmony and two-acoustic-guitar arrangements. AM says: “We never once put on headphones in the studio”
Our first independent release, produced by Todd Sickafoose at Earycanal in NY and CA! Ornate and percussive, this album features a tribe of innovative musicians, new friends and old.
AM says: “Inspired by American manhood, British ballads and my father.”
The recorded version of Anaïs’s folk opera based on the Orpheus myth and set in a post-apocalyptic Depression Era. The album features guest singers Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Ani Difranco, Greg Brown, Ben Knox Miller (Low Anthem) and the Haden triplets. Arranged and orchestrated by Michael Chorney and produced by Todd Sickafoose at Earycanal in Brooklyn, NY. The opera was originally developed as a theater show in the state of VT in collaboration with MC and Ben t. Matchstick (director).
This is a split EP Anaïs made with her good friend and fellow songwriter Rachel Ries. The idea was A., to make vinyl (it comes as a 7″ along w/ a CD), B., to sing beautiful girl-harmonies and C., to record their mutual friend Louis Ledford’s devastating song ‘When You Fall’. They recorded the basic tracks in one session at Hi-N-Dry in Boston, MA with the rhythm section of the Session Americana band.
The first album Anaïs made for Righteous Babe Records, produced by Michael Chorney at the Grain Bin in VT. During this era she lived in the apartment upstairs from the studio. AM says: “Inspired by a heartbreak.”
Her first collaboration with producer Michael Chorney, recorded in a two-week span at ‘the Grain Bin’, a converted grain mill in Bristol, VT. AM says: “Inspired by the terrifying first term of George W. Bush.”
CHILD BALLADS (with Jefferson Hamer)
(Wilderland Records, 2013)
On this album, Anaïs teams up with collaborator Jefferson Hamer to co-arrange old English and Scottish folk ballads from the Francis James Child collection. The recording, which was produced in Nashville by Gary Paczosa, is an intimate one, featuring a lot of close harmony and two-acoustic-guitar arrangements. AM says: “We never once put on headphones in the studio”
YOUNG MAN IN AMERICA
(Wilderland Records, 2012)
Our first independent release, produced by Todd Sickafoose at Earycanal in NY and CA! Ornate and percussive, this album features a tribe of innovative musicians, new friends and old.
AM says: “Inspired by American manhood, British ballads and my father.”
HADESTOWN
(Righteous Babe Records, 2010)
The recorded version of Anaïs’s folk opera based on the Orpheus myth and set in a post-apocalyptic Depression Era. The album features guest singers Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Ani Difranco, Greg Brown, Ben Knox Miller (Low Anthem) and the Haden triplets. Arranged and orchestrated by Michael Chorney and produced by Todd Sickafoose at Earycanal in Brooklyn, NY. The opera was originally developed as a theater show in the state of VT in collaboration with MC and Ben t. Matchstick (director).
COUNTRY EP w/ Rachel Ries
(Righteous Babe Records, 2008)
This is a split EP Anaïs made with her good friend and fellow songwriter Rachel Ries. The idea was A., to make vinyl (it comes as a 7″ along w/ a CD), B., to sing beautiful girl-harmonies and C., to record their mutual friend Louis Ledford’s devastating song ‘When You Fall’. They recorded the basic tracks in one session at Hi-N-Dry in Boston, MA with the rhythm section of the Session Americana band.
THE BRIGHTNESS
(Righteous Babe Records, 2007)
The first album Anaïs made for Righteous Babe Records, produced by Michael Chorney at the Grain Bin in VT. During this era she lived in the apartment upstairs from the studio. AM says: “Inspired by a heartbreak.”
HYMNS FOR THE EXILED
(Waterbug Records, 2004)
Her first collaboration with producer Michael Chorney, recorded in a two-week span at ‘the Grain Bin’, a converted grain mill in Bristol, VT. AM says: “Inspired by the terrifying first term of George W. Bush.”