So proud and happy to be part of the PARMA family and to see ANIMO two released by Ravello Records today.

A fantastic end to a year of 'firsts': 

HOPE, PARMA, Music Video, ANIMO two and fantastic audiences!

Animo have been signed by PARMA recordings, Ravello records, for their second album 'ANIMO two'.

YOUTUBE Premiere of our MUSIC VIDEO 'The Journey of Alan Kurdi'

April 1st, 2022 at 12 noon

Recorded at St George's Bristol on May 11th, 2021

Tara Guram's emotive 'Requiem' (for my mother) is being released on Friday 18th July. We feel so lucky and so humbled to have been part of this composition's journey and Tara's own. 

Animo and Supriya Nagarajan have been offered a Residency as part of Festival of New, at Snape Maltings, between the 6th and 12th September, 2021.

Go team!

Our Animo two residential and recording sessions are now in the past. What's left is the desire to do more, to work harder, to play more repertoire and to not rest but to keep going but we are all human and it really is time to rest... and be reflective.

Spring is on its way! Let's begin positive.

ANIMO two recording are starting tomorrow for another 3 days and I've made a little video called 'beginnings'.

Recording for 'ANIMO two' starts tomorrow with a 'set-up day'. Adam Bertenshaw is back to record us both on audio and video. We have created a little Covid-safe haven (Gazebo included!) and tomorrow we will spend the whole day setting up equipment, finding the right sound, floating ideas.

ANIMO are performing at the KIND20 worldwide online Festival -the 24-hour Kindest Christmas Festival- which will Livestream on Facebook, December 17th 2020.

You can watch Animo performing Christmas music in Jazz style (and we've turned our Home Studio into Santa's grotto!).

When you visit our website you will see that we have a new tab called: New Releases.

We are starting with 'The Journey of Alan Kurdi' by Lukas Piel which we recorded...

We are so enjoying performing for all of you out there! Thank you for supporting us on social media and our youtube comments. Livestream 3 (Spiegel im Spiegel) is now in the past and we are now preparing for Livestream 4...  

Stronger and more determined than ever, Animo are back to work during England's second lockdown. 

We plan to continue...

Today it was Animo's first live-streaming expedition! Three mics, two cameras, one mixing desk, ecamm-live streaming software (kudos to the developers!) and actually...

Animo had a brilliant conference experience at the end of June. We met so many wonderful musicians (4 from my home country!). We are now working on our 'new music' commissions, talking to our wonderful composers and planning ahead.

Like everybody else during this COVID parallel universe, we too had to double-think about whether we could, in fact, 'go to work' and we decided... we could!

Animo's sound is created by Adam Bertenshaw who I call 'our sound chef'. In reality, Adam is the team and has gathered the most wonderful young media specialists to film, photograph and capture our sound. This blog is dedicated to him.

Still a working title, Animo have completed their first recording! 

Thank you Adam; you did us proud!

Animo's residential signals the start of the Countdown to our recording and our official launch 24th October 2019.

Our launch story has officially begun. We've just had our first session with our launch composer Joe Howard. This is going to be good!

Our first meeting with Joe Howard, our launch composer, is in July. 

The idea is that we "organically" come up with any ideas that can be recorded and incorporated into our first ever Animo-commissioned composition. Very exciting! 

The first composition written specifically for ANIMO is under way