The single opens as piano and acoustic guitar mimic each other and Rockne begins, “I miss you when you were a mystery.” Rockne’s voice is striking in its willingness to be exposed, naked, yet there is a strength that comes through that almost feels learned, like how we learn to navigate chaos.
California songstress Angelica Rockne will release her second album 'The Rose Society' in May 2023. Rockne came to Loose’s attention with her startling debut 'Queen Of San Antonio'. Released back in 2017 the album led to LA Weekly heralding her as Best Country Singer of 2019. Closer to home, Rockne has already come to the attention of Uncut Magazine who made her debut album one of their Americana Albums of The Month and have just featured the opening track of her new album on Volume 6 of their iconic and Influential Sounds Of The New West series of covermount CDs.
Rockne’s debut, 'Queen of San Antonio', was immediately labeled “cosmic country.” It served as an ode to a town, a group of ride-or-die friends, and the 1970’s lifestyle they were living. After moving every few years as a child and young adult, she explored the then-revelatory concept of sticking around. 'The Rose Society' drops the confines of cosmic country, the arrangements are wholeheartedly devoted to the song.
Now, sitting amongst the orchards of Corralitos, California, Angelica Rockne reflects on the recent past. Her forthcoming album, 'The Rose Society', has been in a process of distillation for five years now. “It sounds like a lifetime, but really it’s been equally ephemeral as it has been eternal.” The album was self-produced, with Oz Fritz at the helm. Rockne called upon longtime collaborators Jason Cirimele on guitar and bass, Cody Rhodes on drums and percussion, and a new friend, Patrick McGee, on piano and organ. The band referenced everything from Ethiopian jazz to Stravinsky, back to folk standards and iconic rock like Harry Nilsson’s Pussy Cats, produced by John Lennon. The arrangements have a fluidity to them, the music lives comfortably within the spaciousness - on top of a desert mesa or pastoral lands untarnished by man. They recorded in a small studio in Nevada City, California in June, 2021. Rockne continued to sculpt the material for eight more months before developing a strategy for string arrangements with Scott McDowell, Graham Patzner, and Lewis Patzner at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco.
ANGELICA ROCKNE - NEW ALBUM: 'THE ROSE SOCIETY'
OUT 5 MAY 2023 VIA LOOSE
NEW SINGLE: "AGE OF THE VOYEUR" OUT NOW
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