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Artist......: Aoife Nessa Frances
Album.......: Land of No Junction
Label.......: Ba Da Bing Records
Genre.......: Indie
Catnr.......: BING156
Source......: CD
Rip.date....: 2020-02-19
Str.date....: 2020-01-17
Quality.....: 777 kbps avg / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Url.........: http://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com
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1. Geranium 4:17
2. Blow Up 4:51
3. Here In The Dark 5:26
4. A Long Dress 1:35
5. Less Is More 5:34
6. Libra 4:02
7. In The End 4:31
8. Heartbreak 4:50
9. Land Of No Junction 6:10
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,: On the eponymously titled final song of her debut album Land of :,
: No Junction, Irish songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances sings ôTake me :
:' to the land of no junction/Before it fades away/Where the roads ':
,: can never cross/But go their own way.ö This search, indeed the :,
: heart of the album, recalls journeys towards an ever shifting :
:' centre - a centre that cannot hold - with maps that are ':
,: constantly being rewritten. :,
: :
:' She writes: The album title is a result of a mishearing. Cian ':
,: Nugent [AoifeÆs musical collaborator and co-producer] was :,
: telling me about childhood trips he made to Llandudno in Wales, :
:' passing through a station called Llandudno Junctionà Land of No ':
,: Junction later became a place in itself. A liminal space - a :,
: dark vast landscape to visit in dreamsà A place of waiting where :
:' I could sit with uncertainty and accept it. Rejecting the ':
,: distinct and welcoming the uncertain and the unknown. :,
: :
:' The album is shot through with this sense of mystery - an ':
,: ambiguity and disorientation that illuminates songs with smokey :,
: luminescence. Yet, through the haze, everything comes down to :
:' what, where and who you are. With Land of No Junction, she has ':
,: built a universe full of intimacy and depth, with lyrics written :,
: through a process of free thought writing. It lends the record :
:' fluidity, each song in dialogue with the next not only through ':
,: language, but the way each musical choice complements or threads :,
: into another. I would write without putting pressure on taking :
:' the song in any particular direction. It all carried itself ':
,: naturally and instinctively with melody coming first and then :,
: structure later. Written over several years, the songs traverse :
:' and inhabit this indeterminate landscape: the beginnings of ':
,: love, moments of loss, discovery, fragility and strength, all :,
: intermingle and interact. Some songsùlike lead single ôBlow Upöù :
:' date back to university days, where Aoife studied film. ':
,: Borrowing its title from the 1966 Antonioni picture of the same :,
: name, it indirectly provided the catalyst for AoifeÆs broader :
:' considerations about being a woman and self-determination - ':
,: Blow Up and Less is More were written before the abortion :,
: referendum was passed in Ireland in 2018 û during time when :
:' women were forced to travel abroad during crisis pregnancies. ':
,: They are both songs about being a woman and finding strength in :,
: a forever changing world. :
:' ':
,: Aoife now currently lives in North Dublin, but spent most of her :,
: childhood along the cityÆs southern coastline with the Irish :
:' Sea: she still swims there regularly, and her connection to the ':
,: ocean is palpable in her songwriting. Born into a large and :,
: creative family û her mother is an actor, her father a :
:' fiddle-maker û she was encouraged by both her parents to play ':
,: music from a young age. She took up the guitar at 11, eventually :,
: taking flamenco guitar lessons until she suffered a hand injury: :
:' It broke my heart not being able to play that kind of music but ':
,: the injury also made me rethink how I could play and shaped my :,
: style today û mostly strumming and fingerpicking. :
:' ':
,: Regardless of provenance, Aoife and her band, intermittently :,
: recording at the Oxford Lane Music Society studio in Ranelagh, :
:' Dublin over the course of a year and a half, realised a ':
,: remarkably coherent sonic world: buoyant and aqueous, with dark :,
: undercurrents. She sings and plays guitar, sensitively supported :
:' by Cian Nugent on bass and lead guitar, Brendan Jenkinson (who ':
,: also engineered and mixed) on keys, Brendan Doherty on drums and :,
: percussion, and Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, whose strings weave :
:' through the songs like silver thread. It sounds unhurried, ':
,: masterful, and soothingly whole. We did a lot of experimenting :,
: and recorded some of the songs a few times in different ways. I :
:' think because Brendan was a good friend we had the freedom to ':
,: keep coming back and try new things. When you have that kind of :,
: space and time really wonderful things can happen. Navigated by :
:' the richness of AoifeÆs voice, along with the layers gently ':
,: built through her collaboratorsÆ instruments, gives a feeling of :,
: filling up space into every corner and crack. The crossroads as :
:' a place where someone can be stuck, static in the face of the ':
,: future, becomes instead an amorphous realm, where the remnants :,
: of the past and what is unknown meld together and come to an :
:' understanding. ':
,: :,
: ôMy old life was hard to shake,ö Aoife sings at the beginning of :
:' ôBlow Up.ö Over the course of Land Of No Junction, nostalgia ':
,: and newness ebb and flow. Sounds simmer up in the background of :,
: the songs, and are washed over by changes both summoned and not. :
:' It shows us a reckoning to be found in flux, and an ongoing ':
,: acceptance of the inexplicable. :,
: :
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