ANNA has released a new remix of Martin Gore’s Cross Whisper. The track is out now as a digital release on Mute Records, and a vinyl edition is set to follow on December 4.
It is ANNA’s third collaboration with the Depeche Mode member. The original version of Cross Whisper comes from MG x CD + JL=, Gore’s project with artist and lyricist Cliff Damavandi and vocalist Johnnie Lee, Gore’s daughter.
Cross Whisper draws on the idea that birds can carry messages between the living and the dead. In ANNA’s remix, the whispered vocal stays in place while the track moves into faster techno, with spacey psychedelic textures and breakdowns that swap the original’s high male singing for a deep robotic voice.
ANNA said five days at Ozora Festival sent her back to the studio wanting to make something with a psychedelic feel. She said Gore’s stems arrived just as that idea was taking shape, and that she finished the remix quickly while dancing and jumping around the studio. She called working with Gore an honor.
