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Anastasia Minster is a singer and composer based in Toronto, Canada. She creates melancholy soulful music in the genre of piano-driven chamber pop which fuses elements of classical, folk and jazz.
Living in a building overlooking a colossal park, Anastasia’s piano sits beside the window so that she can watch the sunset. It’s where she observes hawks as they soar, listens to coyotes howl and wakes up to the dawn chorus at 5 am. This is her favourite time of day, when there are no other sounds to hide their singing.
As the birds welcome the day, Anastasia’s is music to break the silence of the dark and to accompany those witching-hour questions of life and death, estrangement and connection. It should come as no surprise that composing is her form of meditation, a vessel for her unconscious mind.
After releasing her debut noir chamber pop album Hour of the Wolf in 2017, Anastasia Minster went on to work on a more ambitious and comprehensive project: her second record Father, released in 2020. Three tracks were created in collaboration with English musician, composer and record producer Steve Jansen, and feature his signature atmospheric synth and string arrangements. Other tracks boast multi-layered cello arrangements by Canadian virtuoso cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne and trumpet parts by JUNO-nominated Tara Kannangara. The album was recorded at Sonology studio in Toronto using a variety of vintage analogue sound equipment. The lyrics are inspired by the works of Carl Jung, Hermann Hesse and Andrei Tarkovsky.
Tracklist
The Ocean Song (Featuring – Steve Jansen)
Falling
We Are The Prison
Halos (Featuring – Steve Jansen)
Supernova
Solaris
Fireworks
Father (Featuring – Steve Jansen)