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Floodplain

by Hannah Frances

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On ‘Floodplain’ Frances takes us through a threshold of healing and resolution with virtuosic poignancy as a storyteller, guitarist, and vocalist.
“Floodplains are bodies of water composed of sediment deposited during flooding and erosion. As I was nearing the end of a grief cycle and releasing narratives that were keeping me stagnant in my growth, images of floodplains, riverbeds, and dams kept arising from me. Reckoning with the ways I had lost myself in relationship, I felt like I was scraping the earth with my bare hands trying to remember wholeness again, loosening the grips of my heart to let go, and seeing myself as a birch tree stripped bare with moss growing over through maturation. Belting in a resonating mantra, ‘I know too much to love that way again, know too well to lose my way again, know too well to give away again, know too well to know when it’s not real love.’––then pensively reflecting, ‘I want to be wanted, don’t want to be forgotten, but want to forget. I want to be shaped by the love I have, not haunted by the lack’––I am begging to be released, begging myself to release. Writing this song changed me in many ways, opening up cathartic pathways for my creative processing.”

With more power and forthrightness than any of her writing thus far, Frances is striding her way into her most compelling body of work.

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LYRICS:
the birch tree bark stripped bare, the bones and the bodies decay there naked as the moss grows over in time as the loss goes through the dam to
loosen you in my heart through the vein
the pain draws beneath
the floodplain

the riverbed is filled with husks of lead the dusk is turning to give and return,
the measure of our love was yearning for
more than we could carry more than we have buried in
the floodplain

i sang to you every day, i waited every night for you to come in the music of our memory each sound resounds too loudly to hear as the grief swells silent in time
as the song resolves dissonant

i know too much to love that way again
know too well to lose my way again
know too well to give away again
know too well to know when it's not
real love

i want to be wanted
don't want to be forgotten but want to forget
i want to be shaped by the love i have not haunted by the lack
i want to be released from the growing pain
in the floodplain
the floodplain
how long have i kept you
how long have i kept the light on
how long have i been gone

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released September 7, 2023
CREDITS:
Recorded September 2022 at Science as Magic Studios, Vermont
Produced by Hannah Frances and Kevin Copeland
Engineered by Kevin Copeland
Mixed by Logan Miley
Mastered by Amar Lal

Hannah Frances – Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics
Alex Ellsworth – Cello

Cover Photograph by Alexa Viscius

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Hannah Frances Chicago, Illinois

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Hannah Frances (b. 1997) is a vocalist, guitarist, composer, poet, and movement artist melding avant-folk, progressive rock, and jazz.

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