Fragile Creatures

Description

For her second full length album, Hannah Rose Platt invites us to a place where science meets superstition and medicine meets myth, to witness the strength, resilience, and rebelliousness of women through the ages, in the unyielding battle for bodily equality and autonomy. In a texturally rich and sonically varied opus, Platt guides us through a journey that is both horrific and beautiful in equal measure. We become silent observers of a night in the life of an ancient midwife (‘Curious Mixtures’), encounter the extraordinary tale of Anne Greene-a woman who survived her own execution and claimed her coffin as a souvenir in ‘Rest in Persistence’.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Ataraxia – Hannah Rose Platt
2. Curious Mixtures – Hannah Rose Platt
3. Young Men Need Their Wives – Hannah Rose Platt
4. Magdalene – Hannah Rose Platt
5. The Yellow Wallpaper – Hannah Rose Platt
6. La Grande Hysterie – Hannah Rose Platt
7. Rest in Persistence (An Anthem for Anne Greene) – Hannah Rose Platt
8. The Sick Rose – Hannah Rose Platt
9. The Edinburgh Seven – Hannah Rose Platt
10. Radiant – Hannah Rose Platt
11. Epilogue: The Wandering Womb Ballet – Hannah Rose Platt