Nov 18 2022
Darlingside

Darlingside

Presented by The Spire Center for Performing Arts at Spire Center for the Performing Arts

Featuring Louisa Stancioff. If Darlingside’s first album, Birds Say (2015), focused on the past through nostalgia, and their second, Extralife (2018), contemplated uncertain futures, Fish Pond Fish stands firmly in the present, looking at what’s here, now. Dave Senft (bass), Don Mitchell (guitar, banjo), Auyon Mukharji (violin, mandolin), and Harris Paseltiner (cello, guitar) have created a natural history in song—taking us into gardens, almond groves, orchard rows, down to the ocean floor and under stars.

The band has long been praised for their harmonies and intelligent songwriting, described by NPR as “exquisitely-arranged, literary-minded, baroque folk-pop,” and their dynamic presence (crowded tightly together onstage) have made them a live-performance favorite. But this album showcases their broader storytelling abilities: nature is a looking glass, the songs suggest, with tracks like Ocean Bed, Green + Evergreen, Mountain + Sea, and Crystal Caving making metaphors of their titles. An experience of nature is an experience of self; an experience of self is one of natural change cut and complemented by stasis.

The band started studio recording Fish Pond Fish in late 2019, when they moved into Tarquin Studios—the residential studio of Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National). Living and working together brought them to their very early years under one roof in Hadley, Massachusetts, which had seeded the origins of their intimate collaboration. At Katis’s suggestion, many components of the initial demos were preserved as layers in the produced tracks to retain the spirit of the initial recordings, resulting in a collection of songs that is simultaneously the most bedroom-tracked and production-heavy full-length album that the band has yet released.

Louisa Stancioff

Louisa Stancioff, originally from Chesterville, Maine now based in Camden, Maine, has been playing and writing music since she was a small child. Her songs are of the folk genre, and often tell stories based in personal experience, embellished with fictional narrative and magical elements to more thoroughly convey reality. Louisa’s Bulgarian heritage shows through in her intricate melodies, having grown up singing the ethereal, often dissonant traditional folk music with her family. Her electric guitar playing and dynamic arrangements exhibit a more contemporary version of “folk”. You can listen to her previous band, Dyado, anywhere, or her recently released solo EP Tape Recordings on Bandcamp. Keep a watch out for her upcoming release of her self titled debut LP, recorded with producer Sam Kassirer.

Admission Info

$42.00

Phone: 508-746-4488

Email: info@spirecenter.org

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Listening Devices:

We do ask ticket holders to arrive 20 minutes before show start for listening devices or to call ahead at (508)746-4488.

 

Dates & Times

2022/11/18 - 2022/11/18

Location Info

Spire Center for the Performing Arts

25 1/2 Court Street, Plymouth, MA 02360