Because of a Flower, by Ana Roxanne

Because of a Flower

by Ana Roxanne

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Trace Reddell Wow, Ana, bless you for this! What a stunning album. I'm loving the whole journey but keeping coming back to the wonderful track, "A Study in Vastness," which taps into a pre-"Dark Side" Pink Floyd space vibe or Popol Vuh cosmic expanse that I could just float in forever, though fortunately the next track carries on this kosmische sensibility with the lovely vocal work and guitar. Vast indeed, and thanks for the sonic mind and soul expansion! Favorite track: A Study in Vastness.

Féfouille A real breathtaking album. Where the present is surrounded by an eternity. Favorite track: A Study in Vastness.

blayze hembree A++

So percussive and comfortable. Favorite track: - - -.

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1.	Untitled 00:50	buy track
2.	A Study in Vastness 06:50	buy track
3.	Suite pour l'invisible 07:01	buy track
4.	- - - 05:15	buy track
5.	Camille 05:04	buy track
6.	Venus 07:57	buy track
7.	Take the Thorn, Leave the Rose 06:04	buy track

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The sublime songs comprising New York-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 is a transfixing document of a rare artist in the spring of their ascension.

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released November 13, 2020

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