![]() “I was making my living doing music.…but I was only about 20 percent musically fulfilled, if that,” she says. Her vocal skills were strong enough that she eventually landed a coveted position with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, supplementing her income by playing piano on the side. She started formal piano training at four, and took up singing “a couple of years later”. It’s not that Hansen hadn’t been immersed in music from a very early age. That was the central issue in my life: I knew what it was I had to do, but I just didn’t think that I could do it.” “I’d never thought of it myself, but that makes total sense to me,” she tells the Straight on the line from her Bowen Island home. For those who know anything about Hansen’s long and often difficult artistic emergence, it’s clear that she’s the woman in the song, but her plunge has been into captivating depths of sound. Surprisingly, though, the song’s author hadn’t quite clued in to her own central metaphor. “Homesickness” sounds like a vacation in hell, but according to singer-pianist Alicia Hansen, it’s more a metaphorical description of her state of mind at the time she made her bleak and brilliant debut, Fractography. He’s swimming she’s afraid to dive in, frightened by the unseen but certain presence of leeches. She and her partner find a pile of sun-bleached bones, cuddle up in the rocking chair where his grandmother died, and then have an awkward moment at the lake. Over a churning cello line and stately piano chords, a woman is describing a series of very uncomfortable scenes.
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