Lotte Kestner is the solo project of Anna-Lynne Williams of Trespassers William. China Mountain (named after a mountain range in southern Oregon) was recorded over a year in her bedroom in Seattle. Her second album, Stolen, is a collection of cover songs. Her third release, The Bluebird of Happiness, came out on Saint Marie Records in 2013. And lastly, Saint-Loup Records has just released a fourth album, Until. Anna-Lynne also makes music with Robert Gomez in the band Ormonde, and has written several books of poetry, most recently the book In the Night I Go Sailing. "Wrestler" is from The Bluebird of Happiness.
I am sure you get asked this a lot, but can you tell us what inspired the name Lotte Kestner?
"A few years after I’d already read “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, I came across the name Lotte Kestner again. She was the woman who inspired that novel. I loved the sound of her name, and I borrowed it. She’s a symbol of unrequited love." -The Big Takeover.
I am sure you get asked this a lot, but can you tell us what inspired the name Lotte Kestner?
"A few years after I’d already read “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, I came across the name Lotte Kestner again. She was the woman who inspired that novel. I loved the sound of her name, and I borrowed it. She’s a symbol of unrequited love." -The Big Takeover.