Crush the Bird by Lotte Kestner

 

“It’s like the Little Match Girl instead sold all of her matches

and bought a guitar.”

- {Sic} Magazine

 

 

Lotte Kestner is the solo project of Anna-Lynne Williams of Trespassers William.

China Mountain (named after a mountain range in southern Oregon) was recorded

over a year in her basement bedroom, and mixed in a Seattle studio with Trespassers

bandmate Matt Brown. Most of the songs are built around acoustic guitar and several

tracks of voice, and a bit of harmonica, keys, drums, ukulele, and harp. She was

assisted on a few songs by friends – including Jeff Martin of Idaho on two of the album’s

tracks.

 

A Lotte Kestner covers album will be released this summer. Anna-Lynne’s new duo

Ormonde also has an album coming out in July on Hometapes.