Biography

Anna Grindle comes from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is an educator, coffee-drinker, cyclist and traveller. Anna began in music as a woodwind player, spending summers busking in Belfast as part of a saxophone quartet. Anna has written songs ​intermittently over the ​years, mainly for guitar and more recently keyboard. Anna’s first album Journey (2004) was in service to a cause, being self-released in support of fundraising before several years of voluntary work in Uganda. A prolific journal writer, life observed and reflected is intrinsic to Anna, and is core to all her song-writing. Recent years have brought what Anna has described as a ‘flurry of song-writing’, and The Turning, is the result. Begun as a purely creative endeavour, friends in the music world persuaded Anna that it deserved to be heard widely. It is consequently her first ‘properly available’ (physically and digitally) body of work.

Essentially a solitary project, the song-writing on The Turning is an open, searching and honest interrogation of lived experiences and observations. Songs bear witness to questions, loss, process, memory and hope. The focus is on the lyrics, set against a mellow harmonic backdrop, and the words breathe on a simple and uncomplicated canvas.

Track Listing: 1. A Memory That Comes To Mind  2. Decide  3. People (with Zenon Joel Otim)

4. Ask Yourself  5. Recognise 6. Skimming Like Stones  7. Meet Me  8. More Than I Deserve

9. Hold On 10. Tears Fall  11. At The End Of The Day 12. When I Am Free 13. This Could Be

ALL Songs written by Anna Grindle Anna Grindle Music ℗ & ©

Additional lyrics and vocals on ‘People’ by Zenon Joel Otim (Uganda)

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Musicians: Anna Grindle (vocals, guitar, keyboard, saxophone, whistles) - Zenon Joel Otim (vocal) - Maurice Dickson (percussion, guitar)

Release Date: Dec 2021  Label: Own Label / Anna Grindle Music ℗ & ©  

Genre: Folk, Ambient, Mellow  Cat. No: AG MUSIC002  UPC: 5 060051334573

Album recorded & produced by Maurice Dickson at Warren Studios, Lisburn

Album mastered by Cormac O’Kane at RedBox Recording Studios, Belfast

Additional recording on ‘People’ by Nathan Mukisa at Nathanet Studios, Jinja, Uganda

‘This Could Be’ recorded and mastered by Cormac O’ Kane at RedBox Recording Studios, Belfast