: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : 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.....: 232kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://badabingrecords.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Geranium 4:17 2. Blow Up 4:52 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 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 41:17 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 72.24 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: 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. :, : : :' ': : ' '.. ..' .. . :........... . . . . ............: . . ______________ ______________ \ / \ / \ / Shout out to all our homies from: \ / \ / \ / \ / iPC BOSS HiT2000 1way UKi i8 RNS \ / \ / RAGEMP3 MANDY DV8 pLAN9 BUTT \ / \ / \ / \/ ____ ____ \/ \ / F A N G \ / \/ 2 0 2 0 \/