Emma Ruth Rundle, Cinder Well at Black Cat

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Tuesday, December 8 Emma Ruth Rundle + Cinder Well 7:00 - All Ages EMMA RUTH RUNDLE Portland, OR https://www.emmaruthrundle.com/ Emma Ruth Rundle made a conscious choice to reach towards making a hopeful record for the follow up to 2021’s Engine of Hell. Where outside forces tempted her to turn inwards, towards isolation and hopelessness, she instead reached outwards to create a record that acknowledges pain, but offers both community and resilience in response. Although These Killing Times possesses a spirit of defiance, it retains the tenderness and vulnerability that saw her earlier work resonate with so many listeners. These Killing Times is electrifying, emotional, and charged with feminine rage; it is a reactive anthology, bristling, full of life and full of resistance - forged by and for community. It asks many questions - of the roles we play as individuals, or as artists - and closes with this one: what will we live for beyond the valley of the shadow of the fear of all men? A question with no definitive answer as yet, but one that is being asked with increasing urgency - here on this record, and beyond. CINDER WELL Los Angeles, CA https://cinderwellmusic.com/ Cinder Well is the musical project of Los Angeles–based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Amelia Baker. Cinder Well’s new album, A Blooming Body, was recorded at Hen House Studios in Venice Beach, California by Harlan Steinberger, to be released on July 17th. Cinder Well extracts dark, rich and tender compositions which nod to, but also stray from traditional musical languages. By comparison to the more diaristic tones of previous releases (2015’s self-titled EP, 2018’s The Unconscious Echo, 2020’s No Summer, 2023’s Cadence), A Blooming Body feels like glimpsing scattered vignettes of a whole world rather than a sequential narrative from beginning to end. Through richly textured arrangements, A Blooming Body expands the sonic world of Cinder Well, resulting in a more immersive, visceral and unconventional collection of songs than we’ve heard before. The music on A Blooming Body shimmers with clarity, Cinder Well’s annunciation crystal clear, and yet there are heady depths to the stories told here that plunge fathoms beneath the ethereal, acoustic surface. Purchase Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/s/38224995?utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv4_a1demo0ipl634f

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