For those not in the know, Rose-Anna is Juno Nominated Noah Franche-Nolan’s second Cellar Live trio album with Jodi Proznick on bass and Nicholas Bracewell on drums.

The album is named after his Acadian great grandmother Rose-Anna Chassé. Rose-Anna played the organ in her local church in Grand Falls NB. The album’s form is grounded in the recurrence of Noah’s variations on his composition Sublimation.

The title of this piece alludes to the process of personal and spiritual transformation. Placed between these variations are songs that explore the spontaneous creativity of the trio’s improvisational ability, most notably the grooving anti-war anthem Hawks and the dynamic A Triangle is a Bird.

Calling upon the name and music of his ancestor, Noah acknowledges the transformative power of the music and knowledge that has been passed on to him through his family.

1. Sublimation I
2. Nasz Dom
3. Haxan
4. Hawks
5. Prayer
6. Rotations
7. Sublimation II
8. A Triangle Is A Bird
9. Union Town
10. Devotion
11. Sublimation III

The JUNO nominated pianist, improviser, and composer, opens his new trio recording on the shimmering elegance of Sublimation I and the sheer embodiment of gracefulness Nasz Dom and then brings us the subtle beauty of Haxan, the flirtatiously playful Hawks and then we are brought forth the ambiently-layered Prayer.

Along next is a genuine bottled stillness within Rotations which is in turn backed seamlessly by a strength in deliverance within the notes of Sublimation II, and then comes the, at first, quieted, latterly expansive and gilded A Triangle Is A Bird, the flourishing Union Town, the set rounding out on the delicate gossamer of Devotion, coming to a close on the forthright, strident even fare of Sublimation III.

Musicians:
Noah Franche-Nolan – Piano
Jodi Proznick – Bass
Nicholas Bracewell - Drums

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