- Anna Neale's self composed 'Evolution' offers mystic undertones of melodious chanting with an eastern influence. Rippling harmonies and luscious melodies are sure enough to entice the listener in. Sumptuous.
- Anna Neale is a multi-talented singer/songwriter, composer, session vocalist, voice over artist and lecturer in music. Anna's worked professionally in the music industry for over a decade. In that time she's toured the world, released three albums and an EP independently to critical acclaim, written songs for other artists, radio and TV advertising, and provided vocals for many TV animations, songs and adverts. Anna is also an elected member of The Ivors Academy Songwriter Committee (formally the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors / BASCA), a member of the Writers Committee for the Musicians Union, and a member of The Brit Awards Voting Academy for The Brits 2020. In 2019 Anna was one of the first mentors for the SheGrows mentoring scheme in partnerships with the Musicians Union and SheSaidSo. Anna is currency campaigning for more independent writers and composers to be able to join MCPS to collect their mechanical royalties.
Annas latest album 'Wide Sky', co-produced with Jez Larder (Amy MacDonald, Estelle, David Bowie) was released independently in 2018 and received a 5 star review in national music magazine RnR. (Rock n Reel). The album features performances from Syrian musicians, as well as singers from English National Opera (ENO). Fusing together Middle Eastern music with Western pop, and continuing the world music theme featured in her previous album 'River Man'.'Wide Sky' has been funded through Pledge Music, the campaign reached 275% of its target funding in three days. Her previous EP 'Free Falling' was also crowdfunded. The title track 'Free Falling' was chosen as BBC Introducing: The South's 'Track of the Day' twice in 2016.
Anna's award winning album 'River Man', (2012) also produced by Jez Larder, took the listener on an epic musical odyssey through Roman history and heralded a change of musical direction. Voted one of RnR (Rock n Reel) Magazine's albums of 2012, River Man features guest performances from Gary Brooker (Procol Harum), Patch Hannan (The Sundays, The Audience), and world-renowned Senegal virtuoso Jali Fily Cissokho. Influenced by the life, times, loves and legacy of Pompeii, Anna Neale's 'River Man' enthralled listeners with songs that chronicled universal themes of love and knowledge, as well as the eternal question of the human spirit and human identity.
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