Love and despair, two themes that Fran Rodgers' voice incarnates to perfection. A deep and refined folk sound which softens even the hardest of hearts.

The first single by Fran Rodgers, I Fell To You Under Winter Sun, produced by Richard Green, seems to come from elsewhere. The singer's voice flies away on acoustic notes. Her melodies, simple and moving, take you by the hand to the heath that you find in Celtic songs.

A voice that haunts you by its fragility and its depth, somewhere between the bucolic ballad and the funeral song.

Born in 1982 to a French mother and an English father, Fran Rodgers was brought up in a small mining town in England. Among the sources of her inspiration we find Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Nick Cave or Jeff Buckley. In 2000 she moves to Leeds, where she starts writing her own material. She teaches herself the guitar, sings for her flatmates at uni, before launching herself for good into the music industry.

The melancholic single, I Fell To You Under Winter Sun, emphasizes her voice, that plunges us into a folk universe both beautiful and sorrowful. It is followed by the elegiac To Long No More, then She Dwelt Among Th'Untrodden Ways; more solemn thanks to (because of?) the sounds from an organ.

A folk both sensual and timeless, close to the one of Vashti Bunyan. With despair added.

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