Ana Roxanne -Because Of A Flower -Kranky LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Untitled"
02. "A Study In Vastness"
03. "Suite Pour L'Invisible"
04. "- - -"
05. "Camille"
06. "Venus"
07. "Take The Thorn, Leave The Rose"

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Because Of A Flower by Ana Roxanne, released 27 November 2020, includes the following tracks: "Suite Pour L'invisible ", "Camille", "Take The Thorn, Leave The Rose " and more. This version of Because Of A Flower comes as a 1xLP. The vinyl is pressed as a opaque disc. -

The sublime songs comprising Los Angeles-based musician Ana Roxanne's second record, Because Of A Flower, germinated gradually across five years, inspired by interwoven notions of gender identity, beauty, and cruelty. She describes her process as beginning with "a drone element and a mood," then intuiting melody, syllables, and lyrics incrementally, like sacred shapes materializing from mist.The experience of identifying as intersex informs the album on levels both sonic and thematic, from spoken word texts borrowed from tonal harmony textbooks to cinematic dialogue samples and castrati aria allusions. It's an appropriately interstitial vision of ambient songcraft, a chemistry of wisps and whispers, sanctuary and sorrow, conjured through a fragile balance of voice, bass, space, and texture.Despite a background studying at the prestigious Mills College in Oakland, Roxanne's music rarely feels conceptual, instead radiating an immediate and emotive aura, rooted in the present tense of her personal journey. She speaks of the flower in the title as a body, singular and sunlit, as many petals as thorns, an enigma beholden only to itself. But whether taken as surface or subtext, Because Of A Flower is a transfixing document of a rare artist in the spring of their ascension.

Issued in a die-cut sleeve. Tracks listed sequentially from 1 to 7 on back cover and labels. Text from "Untitled" : Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression by W. A. Mathieu published by Inner Traditions International and Bear & Company, ©1997. All rights reserved. http://www.Innertraditions.com Reprinted with permission of publisher. Text from "Venus" : Venus Signs by Jessica Shepherd published by Llewellyn Worldwide, ©2015. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of publisher. Audio from "Camille" : Mystère Alexina by René Féret, ©1986. Used with permission of JML Productions / Les Films Alyne. Piano from "Take the Thorn, Leave the Rose" : Ave Maria, performed by Alessandro Moreschi, 1902. © Ana Roxanne ? Kranky, Ltd. 2020 Recorded ... in Los Angeles, CA

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00143588

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