FIRST COLLABORATION WITH HUSBAND JEFFREY FOUCAULT PRESENTS A DARKLY
HOPEFUL, FIERCELY WISE COLLECTION CENTERED ON THE WORK OF LOSS AND
RETURN, ALIENATION AND HOMECOMING.
“Brilliant” (Pop Matters, Boston Globe) singer-songwriter Kris Delmhorst
marks two decades of a life in music with the release of 'The Wild,’ on
September 22.
The arc of the album describes "losing the path, finding the path:
losing your connection to your lover, to the muse, to your sense of
self, and dead reckoning the way back," says Delmhorst. The record
juxtaposes a wide open sonic template - dark washes of electric guitar
and pedal steel, bright layers of acoustic guitars underlined by cello
and keys - against lyrics that travel from deep melancholy to the joy of
inspiration and connection. Miles Davis famously said, "Music is the
space between the notes. It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you
don’t play,” and Delmhorst uses that philosophy to create an
uncluttered embrace of mystery and questioning.
‘The Wild’ is her first studio collaboration with her husband and fellow
songwriter Jeffrey Foucault (“Contemporary and timeless,” NY Times),
who co-produced and contributed lead guitars and backing vocals.
Additionally 'The Wild’ features Foucault’s rhythm section of bassist
Jeremy Moses Curtis (Booker T. Jones, Twinemen) and drummer Billy Conway
(Morphine, Treat Her Right), veteran players and longtime associates in
the course of Delmhorst's career. The result is an album that brings
together all the threads of a life in music, and a rare intimacy between
players. Of the process of recording with such a close-knit group,
Delmhorst reflects, “The best moments in the studio are the ones that
feel like a bunch of kids working on a sandcastle, with a dead serious
teamwork devoted to something that's essentially play.” Delmhorst and
Foucault will tour together in the fall of 2017, taking turns fronting
the band, and playing on each other’s sets in a rare confluence of the
two respected artists’ paths.
‘The Wild’s highlights include the darkly rollicking Americana of “All
The Way Around,” an urgent, simmering meditation on the poles of loss
and return; the searching, Faces-inflected “Rules To Games”; and the
uptempo longing of “Foolish Blood," reminiscent of Wildflowers-era Tom
Petty.
Title track “The Wild” explores the animal self buried under the
detritus and nonsense of culture, a haunting lament for what we've lost,
both inside and out. “I Don’t Need to Know It All” celebrates the
elemental mystery of existence. “We have a whole lot of data at our
disposal, and all of it adds up to no more than a rickety little raft on
which we attempt to ride a vast, deep sea of things beyond our ability
to understand.” The closer, “The Light In The Hall,” ends with an eye to
the road forward, making an elegiac plea to stay awake to life and
everything it brings.
All Music said, “Captivating and very intriguing… This artist is subtle
in her approach with music that comes up behind you and a voice that
breathes through the speakers.”
Tour Dates (all double-bills with Jeffrey Foucault):
October 20 - Stone Mt Arts Center - Brownfield ME
October 21 - Once Ballroom - Somerville MA
October 22 - Higher Ground - Burlington VT
October 25 - Gypsy Sally’s - Washington DC
October 26 - Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 – New York, NY
October 28 - Shea Theater - Turners Falls, MA
November 2 - Ballard Homestead – Seattle, WA
November 4 - Old Church – Portland, OR
November 7 - Arcata Players Theater – Arcata, CA
November 8 - Palms Playhouse – Winters, CA
November 9 - Freight & Salvage – Berkeley, CA
November 10 - Don Quixotes – Felton, CA
November 11- McCabe’s - Santa Monica, CA
November 12 – Soho - Santa Barbara, CA
December 1 – The Ark - Ann Arbor, MI
December 2 - Seven Steps Up - Spring Lake, MI
December 3 - City Winery - Chicago, IL
December 5 - CSPS - Cedar Rapids, IA
December 7 - Cedar Cultural Center - Minneapolis, MN
December 8 - Stoughton Opera House - Stoughton, WI (Madison area)
December 9 - Collectivo - Milwaukee, WI
‘The Wild’ Track Listing
1. All The Way Around
2. Temporary Existence
3. The Wild
4. Rules to Games
5. I Don’t Need To Know It All
6. Magnolia
7. Color of the Sky
8. Foolish Blood
9. Lonely West
10. Hollow
11. Tracks in the Snow
12. The Light in the Hall
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