![]() ![]() ![]() She has scored films, including 2012’s Mountain with Rob Strachan, which she also produced co-founded the Mitra Music for Nepal project with Cathy O’Dowd in 2015 and released the 2016 electro-acoustic album Scanni with Scanner. Post-Soft Cell, Anni continued as Marc’s musical director, co-writing and performing as part of The Willing Sinners and then La Magia, for whom she co-produced 1989’s The Stars We Are album that contained the smash hit duet ‘Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart’ for Marc and Gene Pitney.Ĭontinuing her quest for musical enlightenment on collaborations with Yello, Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür, Zeke Manyika, and Swans’ Jarboe, Anni has also played with such legends as Hugh Masekela, toured with Paul Weller and formed the acclaimed Cactus Rain along the way. It’s for her formative collaborations with Marc Almond that Anni is perhaps best known – a friendship begun on the Amnesia dancefloor that blossomed through Marc and the Mambas, whose members included TheThe’s Matt Johnson and the multi-instrumentalists Martin McCarrick and Billy McGee and inspirations came from Jacques Brel, The Velvet Underground and Syd Barrett. Through these experiments in sound and technique, Anni developed both her songwriting skills and a fluidity on the piano akin to catching moonbeams in a jar: the results of which could be clearly heard on her iconic Kickabye EP of 1985. ![]() Her earliest musical forays were revelatory turns with Derek Jarman-soundtracker and avant-garde innovator Simon Fisher-Turner, nascent Bad Seed Nick Cave and big time swinger Barry Adamson, part of a heady scene that revolved around a houseboat in Chelsea and also included like-minded spirits Lydia Lunch, JG Thirlwell, Blixa Bargeld and Siouxise and The Banshees. One of the first female DJs and promoters in the fecund post-punk ferment of Leeds and London, she spread her infectious enthusiasm for electronic music, Northern Soul and smoky dive jazz in equal measure at the pivotal Amnesia and Batcave clubs, both on the decks and booking the talent. There has never been anyone quite like Anni Hogan. ![]()
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