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very pleased to welcome back Ana Roxanne to Manchester
Born and raised in the Bay Area and currently based in New York City, Ana Roxanne is a composer and vocalist whose personal, subtly experimental style has been described as "introverted euphoria" by Resident Advisor and "ecstatic" by Pitchfork. Most recently, Roxannechanneled her heartbreak and grief into 'Poem 1', her second album and most unguarded statement to date. A blend of decelerated jazz, minimalism and vocal folk forms that's marked by an awareness of ambient musics, the album plays out like catharsis, finding hope in the subtlety, slowness and smoky sadness of its piano themes, vulnerable vocals and dissociated synthesizer drones.
Roxanne grew up fascinated by jazz, R&B and classical music, locked into Bay Area radio and her parents' record collections. And after moving to rural Iowa to study music at community college, she became involved in a choral program that whisked her across the country. But it was a trip to Uttarakhand in India, where she traveled to learn traditional Hindustani vocal techniques, that truly reshaped her outlook. On her return to the USA, she enrolled at Oakland's prestigious Mills College and began sculpting her signature sound, dubbing a handful of experiments on her debut EP '~~~'. Originally passed around only to friends in 2015, the record made its way to Leaving Records who reissued it in 2019 and its meditative, restorative songs struck a chord with listeners and critics alike.
A year later, Roxanne signed with Kranky and released her debut album proper, 'Because of a Flower', using a lifetime of inspiration and emotional anguish to drive songs that looped dreampop with West Coast new age sounds and trip-hop with classical music, yet sounded startlingly personal. It's no surprise that the Guardian described the album as "a magical pop-ambient mirrorworld". And she followed the released with a run of high-profile worldwide shows and festival appearances, performing at London's inaugural Pitchfork Music Festival and Le Guess Who in 2021, Amsterdam's cult club music expo Dekmantel and Sydney's City Recital Hall in 2022, Rewire Festival in 2022 and Glastonbury in 2024.
Aside from defining her point of view as a solo artist, Roxanne has quickly developed a powerful voice as a composer and collaborator. She began scoring work in 2022, working with artist Bernie Krause on 'The Great Animal Orchestra', a commission for the Fondation Cartier and most recently teamed up with director James L. Robinson on the award-winning feature 'First Light', that's set for release in 2026. Reworking Beverly Glenn-Copeland's timeless 'Old Melody' for 'Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined' in 2021, Roxanne also worked alongside DJ/producer Brian Piñeyro (aka DJ Python) on the Mexican Summer-released 'Natural Wonder Beauty Concept' LP.
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Elucyve (Lucy Green) is a composer and producer creating emotionally driven work that sits between beauty and instability. Blending contemporary classical with electronic harshness, her music drifts through fragile, intimate texture before breaking into noise and chaos.
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the evening will be soundtracked by colell <3
