Cailee Frances

Featuring eight exceptional original tunes and two unique covers, recorded with some of Australia’s finest musicians. Frances’ second studio album ‘Beautiful World’ has just been released by ABC Music, distributed by in Australia and New Zealand by Universal Music. UMG Japan will also release ‘Beautiful World’ later this year. The album was produced by ARIA award winner Chong Lim AM (John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John, David Campbell). Frances is one of Australia’s most talented young singer-songwriters and piano players. Frances captivates her audiences with a combination of her genuinely warm stage presence along with a voice and style that are distinctly her own. Her original swing and beautiful ballads have a natural partnership with the occasional classics she interprets.

1250. À quoi ressemblait une ville médiévale ? Comment y vivait-on ?
Les grands historiens Frances et Joseph Gies choisissent Troyes, en Champagne, comme l’archétype de la cité médiévale européenne. Grande cité prospère et ville de foire de l’époque, elle éclaire un moment phare de la civilisation médiévale, quelques années avant la guerre et l’épidémie de peste noire qui ravagea l’Europe. …

The Mars Volta's 2003 debut was a dense, experimental run-on sentence of science fiction and musical exploration. But though it ultimately rewarded patience with stretches of unbuckled rock & roll genius, De-Loused in the Comatorium was also a maze-like and obtuse migraine dealer that made people frustrated and crazy. For 2005's Frances the Mute, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala worked principally with their touring band, but "joining the band for selected moments" are strings, horns, electronic programming, pals Flea and John Frusciante, and the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico. There are no song breaks, making the track listing more of an outline. But Mute's printed lyrics are a helpful guide, a map of Mars that's meant to both direct and fascinate…