Hannah Schneider (AyOwA) is a Danish composer and singer-songwriter. She finds inspiration in a wide variety of artists including Hania Rani, Beach House, Satie, Björk, Serge Gainsbourg and Debussy.
Born and based in Copenhagen, Denmark, Hannah Schneider has previously both lived and toured in the UK. Hannah signed to Sony Music in 2009 and subsequently released two full-length albums – a self-titled debut and Me vs I. In 2014, her third album Red Lines was released on Mermaid / Sony and UK label Lojinx.
“We Will Be The Only Sound In The World” is the first excerpt from the upcoming album called Ocean Letters which will be out via Midnight Confessions. Speaking of the song, Hannah Schneider explains: “This is the first single from my forthcoming album “Ocean Letters”- an album that is thematically inspired by Danish poet Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen and her little book of the same name, that talks about the evolution of the world as it is seen by the Ocean. This song is written from the perspective of a conch shell, telling its stories of the grains of sand and the waves that indented it, playing with the fact that seashells actually are a kind of amplifier of ambient noise. The song was written during a lockdown in Denmark this January, and it reflects the feeling of pandemic stillness – the lack of aeroplanes in the sky, and traffic sounds that usually create eternal background noise.”
Listen below.