Anne Pe is a singer-songwriter from the Black Forest region, Germany.
Berlin at the end of the 90s was where she found a new (musical) home. After nine months travelling and living in Australia, Anne stayed in the vibrant city for seven years – long enough to write her first songs, to pass through the East Berlin pubs as a street musician, record a few demos and train as a music therapist.
Eventually, the forest and the mountains summoned her to swap the big city lights for the green slopes of South-West Germany, where she lives today. With a view of the nearby mountain ridge and in „starstill“ nights, she weaves here beautiful, delicate song ideas to take us away to fairy tale spheres.
Her songs, mostly written in English deal with deep, sincere feelings, of yearning and a particular sensitivity which moves from hope, to melancholy to nature. “If I didn’t live next to the mountains, the only alternative for me would be to live by the sea,” she says. So, it’s unsurprising her texts find metaphors such as “hearts without a sail“ and we are asked to “write words in water and time.”
“Glowing Seas” – Anne`s first full-length album (2017) is an authentic tapestry of bundled imagery, colourful melodies and a captivating beautiful soundscape. Produced by Chris Német, who has managed to attain that producer finesse which prevents the disillusion of listening to a CD following a charming small live concert – with grungy E-guitars and enchanting backing chants, mandolin and double bass – however without smothering the powerful poetry of the lyrics.
One of the songs on the album was nominated for the finals in the UK Songwriting Contest 2016, five others were in the semi-finals.
The album received airplay in several big radio stations in Germany as SWR1, SWR3, SWR4 and NDR. The German „ELLE“ recommended Anne`s song „Seagull“ and several prestigious music magazines (Schall, Akustik Gitarre, Hifi Stars,…) wrote words of praise.
With the album release, Anne was featured in an interview and unplugged session on SWR1 in Stuttgart. SWR3, SWR4 and NDR, various regional German radio stations and web stations played her music. In March 2018 she had her first appearance on German television in the SWR`s show „Kaffee oder Tee“ where she also played a new acoustic single „Tonband Berlin“ live with her band.
Currently she is working on a new album which will be released in 2025.
Music from a songwriter portraying an emotional melange of mystical and personal archetypes. If you have had enough of the ubercoolness of the world, then you are most probably in the right place.
