One day when he was a child in New York City Anton put his ear against a speaker in a dark apartment on the west side and went into a trance. He had a long dream. When he woke up twenty years later his heart was permanently broken, but in a good way. Trying to make a movie out of the turbulence in his mind, he found himself writing songs instead, songs some have described as sounding like Bryan Ferry, some as sounding like John Lennon, and some as sounding like a session of great sex during psychoanalysis.
His first CD, A Sentimental Education, has been described by listeners in the US and Europe as Lush, Dreamy, Mesmerizing, Groovy, Catchy, and Gorgeous.
Sometimes Anton takes himself a little too seriously, but his melodies are often beautiful, his lyrics often interesting, and his beats cool, so forgive him. Girls are usually more enamored of his tunes than boys, but the boys are slowly being won over.
Anton is currently assembling a real and imaginary band. Real members adding to Anton's keyboard and voice currently are Jessica Hallman on cello, Kristofer Widholm (Morex Optimo) on guitar, and Joanna Choy (Tall Pines, Tragedy) on second vocal.
"Should you have forgotten what a beautiful ballad is or what a finely crafted good pop song sounds like, Anton Sword has 'A Sentimental Education' ready for you: 11 wonderfully produced songs of melancholy, love and the fleetingness of human existence...dark but tender."
--Roman Elsener, in The Roman Games Diary Blog
music
JS Bach, Beethoven, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Thelonius Monk, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Coldplay, The Decemberists, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Simon and Garfunkel, Miles Davis, Jeff Buckley , Jesse Malin, Velvet Undergound, Django Reinhardt, Jimmy Smith, Beatles, Kinks, Bacharach and David, Sly Stone, Quincy Jones, Elton John, Steely Dan, Cocteau Twins, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Prince, Smiths, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Stereolac, My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Elliot Smith, Sam Prekop, Radiohead
artists
Caravaggio, Bosch, Francis Bacon, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Vermeer
movies
The Wages of Fear, 81/2, The Three Musketeers (Michael York version), Last Year at Marienbad, Yellow Submarine, Citizen Kane, Rashomon, Alphaville, Goodfellas, Casablanca, Scarlet Street, The Third Man, Little Miss Sunshine, Dr. Strangelove, The Life of Brian, The Philadelphia Story, Breathless, La Dolce Vita, Singin' in the Rain, Trouble in Paradise
tv shows
The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under
actors
Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn, Romy Schneider, Kate Winslet, Clint Eastwood, Michael Caine, Cary Grant, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Anton Sword
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