Kris Delmhorst and Chris Pureka

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Kris Delmhorst and Chris Pureka

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• Show Time: 7:30pm
• Lineup: Kris Delmhorst, Chris Pureka

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SPACE — Evanston, IL

• Address: 1245 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL 60202
• Additional Info: Ghosts in the Garden, the gorgeous and searching new album from Kris Delmhorst, is a layered, kaleidoscopic meditation on grief, loss, and fate. Inhabiting the songs are a host of vivid spirits made tangible: the departed and the disappeared, sins and their consequences; lost loves, missed chances, and the invisible sorrows that accompany us all. With richly observed details and finely calibrated emotional range, Delmhorst finds the wavelength that illuminates these multitudes. Having summoned them, she doesnt avert her eyes from her ghosts or ours but invites them into an expansive conversation about the ways were shaped by loss, and woven together by unseen threads of love.Working at Great North Sound Society, a studio built into an 18th-century Maine farmhouse that no doubt harbors ghosts of its own, Delmhorst tracked live with a core band of Ray Rizzo on drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis on bass, and Erik Koskinen on guitars. Engineer Sam Kassirer added keys, and Rich Hinman contributed pedal steel. An illustrious procession of guest vocalists Anas Mitchell, Rose Cousins, Anna Tivel, Ana Egge, Taylor Ashton, Rachel Baiman, Jabe Beyer, and Jeffrey Foucault brings prismatic brilliance to the tracks, refracting the individual slant of each songs light.The stories on this record unfold from the inside out like fables, sketching archetypical characters a fisherman recalling details of a life tethered to the margins, a soldier remembering the universe of a single day and night of love and transforming them into proxies for our own hauntings. The darkly hypnotic Wolves reckons with the mortality of parents, the ordinary and inevitable orphaning that we all face. I see wolves / circling the fire / circling the fire with their yellow eyes, Delmhorst sings, steadying and challenging us to meet deaths gaze with respect, before posing the albums central question: Do you really love the story if you dont love the end?_____Its rare for an artist to bridge the divide between critical acclaim and dedicated fan engagement. Chris Pureka is a Portland-based singer-songwriter whose body of work has resonated deeply with these seemingly disparate milieus. Their music has straddled the folk, americana and indie rock genres over the course of their 20 year career, and over that time, their bold vulnerability in processing the intimacies of life in song has struck a chord with those listeners who crave authenticity and depth.Chriss elegant emotionality as a vocalist and their flair as a lyricist have garnered them favorable comparisons to Chan Marshall, Bruce Springsteen, and Patty Griffin. Over many years of touring on both sides of the Atlantic, they have shared the stage with such diverse and esteemed artists as The Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov, The Cowboy Junkies, Haley Heynderickx, and Ani DiFranco. They have had their songs featured on such television shows as Brothers and Sisters, Covert Affairs and Shameless and well as a song featured in the Sundance featured indie film, The Royal Road. Along the way, Chris has remained truly independent, selling nearly 50,000 albums through their own label, Sad Rabbit Records.