{"title":"Ana Roxanne","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a091a","title":"~~~","description":"\u003cp\u003eAna Roxanne is an intersex Southeast Asian musician based in Los Angeles. Ana’s love for singing began through her mother’s CD collection of 80s \/ 90s R\u0026amp;B divas. Raised in a Catholic church, she became a devoted choral singer, which led her to a small jazz and classical program in the cornfields of the Midwest. Ana’s practice also explores themes of gender and identity. For fans of Julia Holter, Sarah Davachi and Jenny Hval.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leaving Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50430871994699,"sku":"1070218","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/370d7e8c-56a1-4b42-a89e-d50e28f3e743_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726853066"},{"product_id":"because-of-a-flower","title":"Because Of A Flower","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sublime songs comprising Los Angeles-based musician Ana Roxanne's second release, \u003ci\u003eBecause Of A Flower,\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite 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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50473482649931,"sku":"1105917","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50473485238603,"sku":"1105916","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/658bf5c8-8f5c-4884-9a09-17922afed21b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727429417"},{"product_id":"poem-1","title":"Poem 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I wanted to travel \/ Home into somewhere,\"Ana Roxanne breathes across an eerie suspended drone on \"The Age of Innocence\". \"I wanted to try \/ And go very far.\" These are the first words we hear on \u003cem\u003ePoem 1\u003c\/em\u003e and reintroduce an artist who's in a conspicuously different phase of her life than she was when her debut album, Because of a Flower, sprouted nearly six years ago. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeartbroken and reflective, Roxanne surveys the transformations that followed and displays a new-found boldness. Her voice is naked, vulnerable and alive, no longer shrouded in tape noise or looped and echoed beyond recognition beneath layered electroacoustic textures. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the course of \u003cem\u003ePoem 1\u003c\/em\u003e, Roxanne displays her skill as a singer and songwriter in the classic sense, using the limited instrumentation simply to accent her exposed tones. Muted piano phrases and plucked bass notes languidly trail her anguished siren song on \"Berceuse in A-flat Minor, Op. 45\", making each word count. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn \"Keepsake\" meanwhile, she sounds as if she's alone in an abandoned bar, stroking the dust off the piano's keys as she inventories her emotional scars. There's a smell of old whisky in the air, but \u003cem\u003ePoem 1\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkably sober album; never wallowing in self pity, Roxanne finds catharsis in the logic of her expressions, twisting out the edges of her memories into surreal, cinematic asides. \"Untitled II\", the album's pronounced, uninhibited centerpiece, delivers on the Lynchian promise that's been present since her first EP, 2019's \u003cem\u003e~~~\u003c\/em\u003e. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd when she interprets the Robert Schumann's lied \"Stille Tränen\" on \"One Shall Sleep\", she turns Justinus Kerner's words into a whispered echo of her own grief, narrating the 19th century poem over syrupy synthesizers and strings. There's a light emerging on the horizon, though; burying her past on the choral standout '\"Cover Me\", Roxanne shifts the pace and the mood on 'Atonement', lifting her voice into a gentle lilt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kranky","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":56756080181579,"sku":"R4185-3185","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56756080214347,"sku":"R4185-5847","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/KRANK252.jpg?v=1773073259"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/ana-roxanne.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}