I was lucky enough to attend SXSW this year, and it was a very different experience than my last visit in 2008, but I won’t get into that right now.  Right now I must tell you about Anni Rossi.  I had heard a couple of her tunes before going, and they were lovely like Kate Nash is lovely and interesting like Regina is interesting, now substitute that piano for  a violin, mostly plucked, and you are getting close.  The cool part about seeing her at SXSW was not that her music was just as lovely and interesting in person, but that it was so much better!  The key difference was this quiet thrown together band backing her lovely plucks.  It gave her music this weight or anchor that I didn’t even know it needed.  Besides the  awkward pauses in between songs, I would say this was one of my favorite shows.  Did I mention I saw her at St. Davids.  Such happy acoustics.  Anyway, you might want to hear this…

Anni Rossi – Machine