Annie Wenz: Buy Annie's Music

The Quintessential Biker Anthem! An Ode to the Open Road. A Must for Bikers, Dreamers, Rockers & Road Dogs! Featuring Annie & Walter Parks (Richie Havens accompanist) Produced by Ben Wish ('Walkin In Memphis')

Annie's ALL instrumental, hour long, multicultural "magical musical journey" featuring haunting Native American & Indigenous flute solos accompanied by stunning, peaceful melody/dances on piano, cello, sitar, gongs, kalimba, violin & bliss...

In addition to Annie on flutes from around the world, piano, digeradoo & soft percussion, it features world renowned percussionist Glen Velez, breathtaking cello pieces by composer Vernon David & the captivating strings of wizard To Prasada Rao...

A perfect recording for YOGA, MASSAGE, MEDITATION or as a gift to those you love... including yourself! Recommended by R.N. Magazine!

“Poet’s Dance”, co-produced by Tom Prasada Rao, is a BRILLIANT work of musical art & poetry... with each instrument (over 20) played by either Annie or Tom. It includes the powerful “Vietnam”, opening with Annie singing in Vietnamese; the spoken word piece “Laos” with accompanying gongs, panpipes, Vietnamese Trong & various Asian instruments; Annie’s love song “Saskatoon Sky”; the Thai song “Loy Krothong” honoring the River Goddess; Annie’s percussive political song “Freedom”; Annie & Tom’s duet English/Spanish rendition of Phil Ochs “Bracero”; & Tommy Sands “There Were Roses”... among others.

"Each song on Poet's Dance is a crafted jewel, a vibrancy of colours shifting from the snowy Saskatoon Sky, a love song of breathtaking beauty to Malcolm's World where the invite is to kick the sandals off and do a Carribean snoopy dance.
The feeling of the album is of a poet on the road, blending in with the people of different lands from South America to Ireland. Annie Wenz has stayed a spell, embraced the people, understood their plight, shared songs and enriched herself as much as her new found friends:
The late Phil Och's Bracero is just Annie & Tom Prasada Rao's guitars underpinning a vocal duet that is a brooding burner to peel paint. Poet's Final Dance is an awesome tribute to Al Grierson "friend, brother, poet, monk, wiseass". The ringing guitar introduction stops the breath and Annie Wenz's voice melts the senses."

If beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, does it also reside in the ear of the listener? And if it does reside there, would I then be incredibly presumptuous in declaring Annie Wenz's Time is Magic to be an inarguably beautiful album? Yes and yes? Oh well. I've been called worse things.
Time is Magic is an inarguably beautiful album. Opening track "Dance Under the Moon" perfectly frames Wenz's unique musical nether-world, which is bordered by traditional guitar-based folk and various Native/Latin American musical styles. "Moon"'s arrangement is kick-in-the-solar-plexus surprising (it sits you down and sucks your wind out with an befuddled, involuntary ahhhhhhh when you hear it the first time)--but it prepares you for the album's rich melange of acoustic guitar, fiddle, cello, flute, percussion and even (gasp!) an electric lead line on "Wild Horses", which ends up sounding like Richard Thompson/Sandy Denny era Fairport Convention.
Wenz is also an evocative lyricist and story-teller: lines like "Richard couldn't live in the flats anymore/the devil lived in his stove and the creaks in his door were the voices of hell come to haunt him" make you want to listen to songs that were already wonderful when you were just hearing them. Does it get much better than this? Maybe. Does it get more beautiful? No. Are you ready to call me presumptuous? Listen to the album before you do.

- Metroland/ Albany,NY