Chicago Music Exchange | 3 years ago
In a reboot of our Sessions series, Karl sits down in the studio with Chicago singer-songwriter Hannah Frances to talk songwriting, the relationship between language and sound, and what she looks for in an acoustic guitar.
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On her fifth release, Bedrock, Hannah Frances offers a breadth of spirit in her storytelling, her bespoke guitar work, and her valiant voice. Unfolding the inquiry of belonging, Frances focuses on the experience of longing as a form of shelter amidst a wavering landscape, on the solemn emergence from dreams that could no longer sustain, with the humility of ardent love and the loss thereof. A jaw clenched, a silence remembered, a longing unfound, a loving fully, a hope in the hands of another in a hollow in a house, wherein the harrowing surrender the self grows still.
Bedrock is a fountain of intentionality, offering rawness with reverence. With her most prosperous writing, performance, and production, Frances displays her capacity to ceaselessly uproot and recollect, moving seamlessly in a sharp edged spiral of understanding. Frances is unyielding yet forgiving, remaining attentive and devoted to discernment, to love, to loss, to remembrance. Bedrock is a vigilant chronicle of becoming, of belonging, of being.
Check out more CME Sessions:
John R. Miller - "Borrowed Time" | CME Sessions: https://youtu.be/8XQNFN6POAk
Mdou Moctar | Live at Chicago Music Exchange | Full Session: https://youtu.be/9juVkImV0jk
The Tallest Man on Earth | Live At Chicago Music Exchange: https://youtu.be/W1PoiyRFrUI
Songs played in this video:
00:00 - 03:50 - “Honey, Hear Me”
05:30 - 09:31 - “Upstream”
11:34 - 15:20 - “Bedrock”
16:34 - 21:48 - “Oranges”
Listen on Spotify & Bandcamp!
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/1FNdKMFQrF3OdEGrqHvO8M?si=wdTyUxMURNCM38ueOAoRKw&dl_branch=1
Bandcamp - https://hannahfrances.bandcamp.com/album/bedrock
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