Frances
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July 2004
Frances was a contributor to the exhibition "Conversations". Visit the web site for more.

How to find them, those regions of space where the equation traces over and over a kind of path, like the moth that batters its way back toward the light or, hearing the high cry of the bat, folds its wings in a rolling dive? And ourselves, fluttering toward and away in a pattern that, given enough dimensions and point- of-view , anyone living there could plainly see – dance and story, advance, retreat, a human chaos that some slight early difference altered irretrievably? For one, the sound of her mother crying. For this other, the hands that soothed when he was sick. For a third, the silence that collects around certain facts. And this one, sent to bed, longing for a nightlight. Though we think this time to escape, holding a head up, nothing wrong , finding a way to beat the system, talking about anything else – travel, the weather , time at the flight simulator – for some the journey circles back to those strange, unpredictable attractors – secrets we can neither speak nor leave.

Robin S . Chapman

Strange Attractors

Who vocals: Frances Paterson; arranged and produced by Dev Gopalasamy; guitars: Dev Gopalasamy; drum kit: Andy Evans; bass: Justin DiLeo; keyboards: Steve Isoardi; flute: Jenny Pollak; FX : Jeff Cripps.

What Songs we hope will strangely attract you.

Where A# Sharp Recording Studio, Kingsgrove, Sydney, Oz.

When Written between 2000 and 2002; arranged with Dev early in 2002 and recorded in October that year during the Cunningham by-election (Wollongong , NSW) when Michael Organ was elected as a federal MP (Go the Greens!).

Why Good question! This is Frances’ third full-length album of original songs. The previous two were the self-released The Song is to the Singer (1984) and Sol y Sombra: Sun and Shadow (1986) released by Larrikin Records. As in previous albums, Strange Attractors sometimes utilises Latin American and African folk rhythms, this time translated by a formidable backing band of four musicians into a lush, Latinish, jazzy sound.