British-based native New Yorker Roxanne Fontana has
released her sixth studio album, entitled Some Have
Fun. The self-produced album by the Queen of Melody,
recorded in London, follows her 2022 concept album
Phantasmagorgy. The ten-track album has spawned three
singles in the run-up to its release. 'Don't Leave
Me', 'Daydream in the Dark Night', and a cover of the
Rolling Stones' mid-1960s 'The Singer Not The Song',
have all gotten worldwide attention, and radio
airplay. All three singles placed in the Top Ten of
the weekly Indie Radio Alliance Top 100 charts, with
the Rolling Stones cover hitting Number One.
Roxanne says of the new album, "Phantasmagorgy was
sort of the flowery window box on a house. With Some
Have Fun, you're in the house. It's a serious place.
Maybe you'll want to run out."
The anthemic title track, which is the next single,
recalls the social cynicism and musical style of Bob
Dylan. The sitar-laden 'Melancholy and You', and the
moody jazz-bluesy 'Card Throwing #2' are also
highlights that display the album's diversity. The
album's two cover songs include the aforementioned
Rolling Stones and a haunting version of the Patti
Smith Group's 'Dancing Barefoot'. The Patti Smith
Group looms large in Roxanne's teenage life. The
album is dedicated to the late PSG guitarist Ivan Kral
- friend and lover, the co-writer of 'Dancing
Barefoot'.
"I am ecstatic with the way this album has come out,"
Roxanne states. "It's got the best music I've heard
from anyone in ages. How can you go wrong with
guitars from Mat Treiber, Tom O'Driscoll, and myself?
There's chops, there's a range of moods, it rocks, all
within the framework of my melodic tunes and non-banal
lyrics. No one else is doing this."
Other musicians on the album include drummer Steve
Hands, renowned for his work with Peter Perrett;
popular London post-punk Alan Blizzard; bassists Dale
Gordon, Spencer Hannabuss, and Richard Vernon of Ricky
Warwick Band and ex of The Mission; critically
acclaimed singer-songwriter-musician Pete Kosanovich;
musical virtuoso from America's Deep South Arvid
Smith. The album also features keyboards and some
backing vocals from Roxanne's phenomenal 21-year-old
daughter Suki Marie, a Trisomy 21 young adult.
New album available on digital downloads and CDs from
Sprezzatura Records.

Produced by Roxanne Fontana.
––Album Discography
Love Is Blue (1999)
Souvenirs D'Amour (2000)
Best Of The 80s (2011)
The Singles 2010-2020 (2022)
Phantasmagorgy (2022)

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