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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZHOMLER, Anna(b 1 Nov. '48, Los Angeles CA) Performance artist and experimental vocalist, with background in visual and performance arts. Self-taught, she began inventing a phonetic musical language and creating the character 'bread woman' '82--6 (sang in the 'bread language') and won acclaim for linguistic alchemy. She created Pharmacia Poetica '87, an ongoing installation and performance project exploring the tonal and symbolic properties of words and objects; also met vocalist/percussionist David Moss '87 and began working with him, incl. her debut album Do Ya Sa Di Do '92 on the German AMF label. She has made several international tours; writing about her incl. a feature article in Option magazine. Further albums: Sugar Connection Plays Alien Cakes '94 on No Man's Land (Sugar Connection is the group's name), Macaronic Sines '95 on Lowlands with percussionist Pavel Fajt, Silver Bowl Transmission Voices of Kwahn on North/South. |