Manfred Eicher, founder of ECM, extended an invitation to Annette: to compose and record an album for voice, piano, and the Cikada String Quartet. What emerged is a rare and haunting work—measured, contemplative, and steeped in a kind of timeless clarity. This is a record that breathes slowly, unfolding like a thought held in silence. The poetry is stark and luminous, the pacing deliberate, as if time itself were being stretched to allow each phrase, each note, to fully resonate. Though the songs may seem disarmingly simple at first glance, they are intricately woven—each gesture precise, each silence purposeful.
A short documentary made during the recording process offers a rare glimpse into the stillness and concentration behind its making—an atmosphere as evocative as the music itself.
weightless
Show me
how to love you.
Under
and above you.
Bare
weightless glove of you.
Made of light and air.
Teach me how
to please you.
thrill you and
increase you.
touch you and
release you.
Present as
prayer.
Share our innocence and sweetness.
Share our graces and courage.
Our strenght and our dreams.
Our strenght and our dreams.
Show me
how to love you,
Angelman.
***
Over.
Over. Every end
a new start. Every bend
of winter brings
you to the new spring.
Every crown a new king.
Every loss a new find.
Over. Every fear
I'm facing, takes
me to a new place.
And when mine
was yours, I'd shine
for you.
Remember
how we grew into
the dream that lived
until we killed
love. Betrayed
our hearts'
fulfillment.
Attraction thrilled
our dance,
like poetry
to romance.
Till love became a season,
a system of behaviors.
A ritual of reason
deprives the self of truth
and innocence, innocence.
When love was in its youth,
you were my prince.
***
as long as now
Come to me. You dream me. Now
& now & now as long as now will
ever b, b with me. I adore thee. Here
with me while I cherish u. I cheer u,
& comfort u, & please u in these
stolen moments of out history.
As we discover affinity & trust
completely. Completely fearless.
This is a promise. Honesty is so sexy.
So is bravery. Come 2 me. You've
dreamed me true.
***
u slide
A lover's promise.
The mother's kiss.
Tho tears will
dry, and souls as
high, as hearts
can go, expand,
while eye to eye
and hand in hand.
We teach
ourselves to make
the chains we reach
to break.
Forsake the truth
if sly will buy
or steal some love,
but know not of
or why
the thing we seek
can live,
then die.
We know those
words to speak
that get us next
to another's skin.
Then close our
minds to the din
of an opening
heart, without
remorse.
So on that
smooth and seamless,
prideful course
of choice your ego
made ago,
alone
u slide.
Till one
gray day
inside
a voice
may say,
"A coward's way
to go. I robbed
and cheated
myself of love
I needed.
I was not
brave enough to know,
brave enough to show,
or keep
a lover's promise",
(the mother's kiss).
***
b 4 u said
That I know
my soul is
being seen, more
than hoped for.
And that others
every time
only spoke,
"I love you."
Almost broke
me half-bro-
ken.
That you know
my soul
healed me,
has saved me,
and freed me.
I was lost
in the dead
time, b 4 u said
my name.
***
The heart keeps
No matter how I keep on trying
my thoughts won't stop about you.
It's just a lie I keep denying.
I can't control my response to you.
I intruct my mind stop dreaming.
I instruct my body stop needing you.
The heart keeps leading me
back to you. The heart keeps
leading me back to you,
(leading me back to you).
Why can't my eyes stop
seeing all they see.
And my senses
sending your beauty.
And my brain
recording memory.
And the information
playing me.
I tell myself.
I tell myself.
Thru all of the doubt
and all of the fear.
Past all of the time
and all of the space.
The heart keeps
taking me back to you,
taking me back to you.
So place
and time's
untrue.
My heart
and I'm
with you.
***
ways it isn't
I want 2 try 2 love again. I think i know how
2 love now. I know all the ways is isn't. No
winning, no losing in love. Longing 2 tell u,
"I can c your beauty." And, "It's been hard 4
me 2 c any1's beauty b4, 4 a long x." No taking,
no giving in love. Truth is all i have 2 live on,
have 2 trust and 2 4give on. Saving me, brave
in me. Had never known love, and so we never
knew what it was, but then no1 else did. Still,
we all were willing 2 try. No lying , no blaming
in love. No hurting, no stopping in love.
***
Safe
My soul searches thru universes for you, but I can't say
"I love you" out loud. Cause if I do, I might believe it too.
I don't feel sure enough to lose control.
My body is burning, turning on to you, but I won't say
"I need you" out loud. This war within could really weaken me.
The flow with life and love should fit me like a glove.
At ease the trees
receive the sun
with no suspense.
While I manu-
facture reasons
that don't make sense.
My brain's showing feature films. The close-ups
of only you, portray you more ideal than true. It feels
so safe behind the fantasy. And much more difficult
when you are real.
***
Free the memory
Take the sum of your own tears.
multiply by unknown years.
You've been so brave, unafraid.
Underneath you bare
the wounded child.
Walking wounded can't rewrite
the story told they hold so tight.
Play the part they must relive.
Do not forget, do not forgive.
We do all that we can do
to survive what we're put thru.
here in this cool, ruthless
worlds. Too unsafe
to show the wounded child.
There's no gain when we encore
the painful past forever more.
Nothing real for us to score.
The love that's lost,
we can't restore.
Let if fall. Let it perish.
Free the memory we cherish.
here in this blind,
careless worlds.
Where our kind,
create the
wounded child.
***
, ever 2 b gotten.
I want 2 show u
how i can b.
I want 2 b
who i show u.
I want 2 know
your thoughts b 4
u tell me. And then
her u
tell me,
anyway.
We R all
we need
of each other.
All, there is, ever
2 b gotten.
Dual mutuality.
***
Camille
When you're not here
within me
the mem'ry
is all I can feel.
I'm lost and found
in rev'rie.
I really am Camille.
Recalling the sense of you
is all I care to do.
Inventing a way to you
thru the abstinent blue.
Thru the obstinate blue.
To the bone, blue
for you.
You make the
song you, true,
when the feeling's too
strong. I go on
till the dawn
restores me.
Exploring
your mystery.
Marking my way to you.
Thru the deeper than
dark bitter blue.
I'm lost and found
in rev'rie. The mem'ry
is all I can feel.
When you're not here
within me. I really
am Camille.
Recalling the sense of you
is all I care to do.
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