Anna Tivel
Anna Tivel is a Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter with a flair for capturing intimate moments and crafting strong, narrative-driven Americana-tinged folk songs. After debuting in 2014, she earned increasing critical acclaim for releases like 2017's Small Believer and 2019's The Question. Tivel's 2021 collection Blue World reimagined some of her earlier songs in a minimalist piano and percussion setting, after which she joined the Mama Bird roster and released 2022's collaborative and deeply organic Outsiders, which featured all-new material.
Raised in rural northern Washington, Tivel comes from a musical family and grew up playing the violin. After a move to Portland, she began writing songs and developed an affinity for framing her poetic observations within gentle, often somber folk songs. She released her debut album, Before Machines, in 2014 on Portland-based Fluff & Gravy Records. After taking home honors at both the Telluride Troubadour Contest and the Kerrville Songwriting Contest, Tivel issued two more albums, Heroes Waking Up (2016) and Small Believer (2017), in quick succession, earning widespread praise for her delicate lyricism and intimate style of storytelling. She continued to earn new fans with 2019's nuanced and atmospheric The Question, an album that paired her with engineer Brian Joseph (Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens) and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shane Leonard.
For her next project, Tivel collaborated with fellow Portland musicians Galen Clark (piano) and Micah Hummel (drums) to re-record sparse new arrangements of songs from her previous albums. The resulting release, Blue World, appeared in 2021. By this point, Tivel had already written the material for her next album, and she headed to Rock Island, Illinois, to reunite with the team of Joseph and Leonard, working with a small group of trusted musicians. They arranged the songs collaboratively and recorded quickly, emphasizing the spontaneous nature of the music. Outsiders arrived in August 2022 and was Tivel's first release for the Mama Bird label.
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The Question (Live and Alone) (Acoustic)
Pop - Released by Fluff and Gravy on 29 May 2020
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Outsiders
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 19 Aug 2022
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Blue World (Map Room Sessions)
Pop - Released by Fluff and Gravy on 16 Jul 2021
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Before Machines
Pop - Released by Fluff and Gravy on 17 Jun 2014
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Heroes Waking Up
Pop - Released by Fluff and Gravy on 20 May 2016
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Anna Tivel on Audiotree Live
Pop - Released by Audiotree Music on 3 Apr 2018
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Anna Tivel | OurVinyl Sessions
Folk - Released by OurVinyl TV, Inc. on 14 Mar 2023
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Outsiders (Live in a Living Room) (Acoustic)
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 18 Aug 2023
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The Good Fight
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 17 May 2023
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Two Dark Horses (Map Room Sessions)
Pop - Released by Fluff and Gravy on 23 Jun 2021
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Illinois - Single
Pop - Released by Fluff and Gravy on 11 Aug 2017
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The Question
Folk - Released by Fluff and Gravy Records on 19 Apr 2019
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The Question
Folk - Released by Fluff and Gravy Records on 19 Apr 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Outsiders
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 31 May 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Blue World (Map Room Sessions)
Folk - Released by Fluff and Gravy Records on 16 Jul 2021
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Black Umbrella
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 28 Jun 2022
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The Bell (Acoustic)
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 20 Jun 2023
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The Dial
Pop - Released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on 2 Aug 2022
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The Question - Live And Alone (Acoustic)
Folk - Released by Fluff and Gravy Records on 29 May 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo