UNCUT MAGAZINE - 8/10 - "on Rockne’s radiant second album her sensory songs, pitted with subtle details, unfurl at their own unhurried pace”
MOJO - ★★★★ - “stealthily psychedelic Americana” “there’s a touch of Emmylou Harris to Rockne’s gravitas and trills, and also something less rootsy, more ethereal and soulful…a real find”
NO DEPRESSION - “Rockne’s captivating voice is resonant and clear, with a quality that suggests wisdom well beyond her years”.
California songstress Angelica Rockne released her second album The Rose Society in May 2023. It has been in a process of distillation for five years now.
“It sounds like a lifetime, but really it’s been equally ephemeral as it has been eternal.”
The album was self-produced, with Oz Fritz at the helm. Rockne called upon longtime collaborators Jason Cirimele on guitar and bass, Cody Rhodes on drums and percussion, and a new friend, Patrick McGee, on piano and organ. The band referenced everything from Ethiopian jazz to Stravinsky, back to folk standards and iconic rock like Harry Nilsson’s Pussy Cats, produced by John Lennon. The arrangements have a fluidity to them, the music lives comfortably within the spaciousness - on top of a desert mesa or pastoral lands untarnished by man. They recorded in a small studio in Nevada City, California in June, 2021. Rockne continued to sculpt the material for eight more months before developing a strategy for string arrangements with Scott McDowell, Graham Patzner, and Lewis Patzner at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco.
SUPPORT: East Midlands singer and songwriter, Emily Ashberry will be opening the evening. With roots in traditional folk music, Emily has developed her own unique writing style.