Noah Franche-Nolan - Rose-Anna

2025

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.

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

Executive Producer: Noah Franche-Nolan & Cory Weeds
Produced by Noah Franche-Nolan
Recorded at Brentwood Presbyterian Church on January 3 2025
Engineered and Mixed by Sheldon Zaharko
Mastered by François Houle
Production Manager: Dominic Duchamp
Album Art Photography by Caroline Smolski
Artist Photography by Leya Russell
Design and layout by Noah Franche-Nolan