DESCRIPTION:
from the album "Little Black Dress & Other Stories" (Ragazza Music, 2003)

Music & Lyrics by Anny Celsi
Track produced by Marvin Etzioni
Vocal: Anny Celsi
Electric Guitar: Marvin Etzioni
Bass: Sheldon Gomberg
Drums: Joey Peters
Keyboard: Danny McGough
Cover art by David Chelsea

Album available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/annycelsi

Little Black Dress & Other Stories: A collection of musical tales from the pop noir song rack that combines the intrigue and mystery of dime-novel culture with pop-rock sensibility and pulls you into its world - hook, line and melody...

"Think of Victoria Williams, Aimee Mann, Suzanne Vega and Sheryl Crow mixed together and you begin to get the picture...Anny is pretty much their equal as a songwriter."
-- S.P. Clarke, Two Louies



"An ultra-cool, ultra-hip album that is one of the best new releases I've heard in a long time. Check it out." -- Ed Kociela, Utah Daily News


"well deserves my five stars top rating!"
-- Hugues Orsetti, CROSSROADS (France)


"The music is all in Celsi's writing, which is direct, killing...needing no ornamentation..."-- Greil Marcus, Real Life Rock Top Ten


"Little Black Dress & Other Stories is a hell of an impressive debut,
and Anny Celsi is a talent to watch." --Michael Toland -- highbias.com

Little Black Dress & Other Stories is a hell of an impressive debut,
and Anny Celsi is a talent to watch." --Michael Toland -- highbias.com


"There isn't a weak track in the set, which is no small achievement."
-- Adrian Zupp, HARP


"Hit material folk pop" -Tom "Tearaway" Schulte -- Outsight Communications


"A musical journey in the best sense, "Little Black Dress" unfolds like a tightly written script. " -- Mark Spangler, The Oregonian

"...a marvelously cool, hip, subtle singer and songwriter...equally convincing with a Dusty Springfield/Jackie DeShannon style ballad as a Peggy Lee-ish torch song...." -- John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music

"One of the most literate, appealing albums of 2003...Celsi has produced
a superlative set of song novellas that demand you hit the repeat button."
-- Paul Andersen, San Gabriel Valley Papers

"In the classic singer-songwriter mode, Anny's sunny/dark folky-rock took me to a "Raymond Chandler-esqe" Los Angeles of hard lessons learned and the high cost of love. Dig it! It's black and white 50's film-noir in color!" -- Two Louies

Nominated for L.A. Weekly Annual Music Award: Best Rock/Pop Songwriter