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love isn't in the air

by Fran

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car ride 04:54
Car Ride You asked me to get off my phone I needed light in my eyes Your bags got packed first Mine took too much time You drive us in the car Took two wrong turns so far It’s not cool to count But these feelings They won’t go down I don’t wanna be In this car right now I wanna be with you But we can’t talk it out I need time alone I put the window down In my phone notes I wish we’d turn this around I paired the bluetooth You tried to help me do it But you help me do everything Maybe It’s better when you do it Then we get our baks up Distance between is fucked Or we Talk Can’t Pretending That we’re not Trying to rip each other apart I don’t wanna be In this car right now I wanna be with you But we can’t talk it out I need time alone I put the window down In my phone notes I wish we’d turn this around I’m trying I’m trying to love I’m lashing out Yeah I feel hurt right now 
I don’t wanna fuck up Wanna believe I’m enough Please know I’m trying to let it go When my hairs are up Old pain wakes up And I can’t let up I’m trying I’m trying to love I’m calming down Trying to be honest now I don’t wanna fuck up Wanna believe I’m enough Please know I’m trying to let it go When my shame speaks out Judgements clamp down And my mind drags me down I’m trying I’m trying to love I keep thinking about What I wanna say to you I’m sorry… I’m sorry
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I’m going to London Ca fait un petit moment que je suis à paris And it’s getting to me somehow Toujours un étranger a stranger Étranger danger Stranger danger Im going to London Im going to jump in speak up say something I’m going to London… Time out …. this time C’est clair …. it’s time words stick and I’m fine I’m too fine to stay in this line this line this comfort zone is over rated my comfort is changing nature I’ve got a twitch cest vrai - je trip let it rip move it vite Im going to London - huh Im going to jump in - quoi? speak up n’ say something - hey I’m going to London… Lightning bolt hit My Haussmann fog dégradé avec le rasoir? Non my hairs long C’était pas sure mais intentions are all This real things here to rip of that fucking door - voila I’m steppin’ through it Who of you knew it Il y a rien a faire mais oui - do it Let in that feeling Piss off that thinking Who cares who’s listening C’est mon couer beating Im going to London - huh Im going to jump in - quoi? speak up n’ say something - hey I’m going to London… The canals deep I’ll swim I’ll sink I’ll do whatever it takes I’ll scratch and itch I’ll make my time I’ll make my space J’arrêt de faire semblant Im gonna meet my demise my way

about

Fran is the pen name of Alexander Oscar Kelvy, an Australian fashion designer, artist, poet and musician based in Paris. After studying in Melbourne, Australia, he won the Australian Fashion Foundation scholarship and moved to Paris to develop his knowledge and craft in fashion and art. It was here, at The Community gallery in 2017 where Super Utu first met Fran. Years later in 2022, during an group show at La Volonté 93, Fran performed his newest project, an assortment of phone poems spoken/rapped over low fidelity trip-hop rhythms and blueish cello lines.

It was this simple combination of voice, cello and drum that would form the basis of ‘love isn’t in the air’ Fran’s inaugural solo EP. The music sits somewhere between the lyrical style of David Byrne and Gil Scott Heron, the sublime and sometimes experimental cello work of Arthur Russell, and the personal relationship Fran has to the film ‘Strictly Ballroom’.

Fran states “Oh and one thing globally the project feels like a digestion of seismic shifts in me from when I moved to Paris / since and what I’ve experienced… I rewatched strictly ballroom a few times since I moved here and I think the morality and humanity of that film has been a reference point in some ways … kinda beliefs that I had … or hopes that dissolved or something … a kind of life heart break … duno if this helps … there’s so many lines and characters from that film that I admire… and the relationship between Scott and Fran…”

It is through a restricted use of tools that Fran derives his lyrical content: He won’t write a lyric he wouldn’t mutter from his own mouth. Toying with his sense of identity as a suburbanite Australian in deeply cosmopolitan Paris, yearning for a view of the forgotten stars obscured through clouds and light pollution, Fran sporadically switches between French and English, directing sentences to unexpected directions, searching for a shared essence in between the two tongues.

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released December 1, 2023

Composition and Production by Fran
Addition Vocals by Zoé Renié Harris
Additional Production by Raudie McLeod
Mix by Fran and Raudie McLeod
Master by Raudie McLeod
Cover Photography by Joaquim Bayle
Make Up by Anna Koral
Released by Super Utu 2023

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