Aoife Nessa Francis
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Aoife Nessa Francis with support from Aliensincaves
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The debut album of new Irish auteur Aoife Nessa Frances (pronounced Ee-fa) is
shot through with a sense of mystery - an ambiguity and disorientation that
illuminates songs with smokey luminescence.
“The album title is a result of a mishearing. Cian Nugent [Aoife’s musical
collaborator and co-producer] was telling me about childhood trips he made to
Llandudno in Wales, passing through a station called Llandudno Junction,” reveals
Frances. “Land of No Junction later became a place in itself. A liminal space - a
dark vast landscape to visit in dreams… A place of waiting where I could sit with
uncertainty and accept it. Rejecting the distinct and welcoming the uncertain and
the unknown.”
The songs traverse and inhabit this indeterminate landscape: the beginnings of
love, moments of loss, discovery, fragility and strength, all intermingle and
interact. On the eponymously titled final song Frances sings “Take me to the land
of no junction/Before it fades away/Where the roads can never cross/But go their
own way.” It is this search that lies at the heart of the album, recalling journeys
towards an ever-shifting centre - a centre that cannot hold - where maps are
constantly being rewritten.