Jul
29
with Emily Jane White
Fri July 29th, 2022
7:00PM
Main Space
Minimum Age: All Ages
Doors Open: 6:00PM
Show Time: 7:00PM
Event Ticket: $25
Day of Show: $30
Eivør
When working a new song, Eivør often envisions the dramatic landscape of her Nordic homeland, a remote archipelago known as the Faroe Islands. “It can be very harsh and very gentle at the same time, and when I sing I see that wildness and softness blended together,” says Eivør. “I think it helps me to create music with a lot of contrast, which is important to me—I don’t want my music to ever feel too safe.” Now based in Copenhagen, Eivør brings that stark contrast to a darkly textured yet brightly melodic sound centered on her captivating vocals. While her origins lie in Faroese folk singing, Eivør’s most recent output reveals her fascination with the infinite possibilities of electronic music. Along with earning comparisons to Kate Bush in the pages of MOJO, Eivør’s otherworldly ingenuity has led to her role in co-composing the soundtrack to the BBC/Netflix flagship series The Last Kingdom. Now working on her next album, Eivør remains focused on making music that’s uncompromising in emotion, and that ultimately connects on a visceral level. “I love looking out into my audience and seeing hipsters and grandmothers and goth kids and metal freaks, with no walls between us,” Eivør says. “I think that happens because I’m not trying to create for any particular crowd. I’m just trying to make the music that I’m yearning to hear myself—something that for me goes straight to the core of what it feels like to be a human in this world.”
Emily Jane White
Emily Jane White is a singer/songwriter from California who released her debut album in 2007. Influenced by American blues and folk music tradition along with contemporary female singer/songwriters such as PJ Harvey and Kate Bush, she has been compared to Chan Marshall of Cat Power and Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. While studying at the University of California Santa Cruz during the early 2000s, White fronted a band called the Diamond Star Halos and began developing her craft as a singer/songwriter. After college she moved to France for a while and established herself as a solo artist. Upon returning to California in 2006 and basing herself in San Francisco, she collaborated with producer Wainwright Hewlett on her full-length album debut, Dark Undercoat (2007). Released initially on the Oakland, California-based label Double Negative Records, Dark Undercoat was subsequently licensed for international release by the label Talitres in 2008 and reached number 143 on the French albums chart. Her sophomore effort, Victorian American, was released on Talitres in France in 2009, and on Milan in the United States in early 2010. That year, she also lent vocals to indie pop band Lonely Drifter Karen’s album Fall of Spring. White’s own Ode to Sentience arrived on Talitres in 2011 and a year later in the U.S. on Antenna Farm Records. Both follow-ups also hit the French albums chart. In late 2013, the songwriter’s fourth long-player, the lusher but still brooding Blood/Lines, was released by Talitres and Important Records. A reference to the opening of Cormac McCarthy’s novel Outer Dark, They Moved in Shadow All Together was recorded in Oakland and San Francisco over a period of two years. It returned White to the French charts in the spring of 2016, with its U.K. and North American release following soon after. For 2019’s Immanent Fire, White worked with arranger Anton Patzner, who helped her achieve an epic, immersive sound as she explored a feminine solution to the imminent extinction of the human species.