Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Recording: Charlotte Cornfield

Artist: Charlotte Cornfield

Songs: Storm Clouds + Andrew

Recorded at a house party, November 2, 2019.

Charlotte Cornfield - Storm Clouds

Charlotte Cornfield - Andrew

Are house shows the Next Big Thing? Wooed by the glitz of app-enabled venture capital companies, there've been some thinkpieces on this topic lately, as if people gathering together with their friends and making music was an unconsidered possibility before there was a profiteering digital middleman on the scene. Still, as affordable spaces for intimate performances dwindle in our city, more folks do seem to be open to sharing their spaces for small-scale shows — which, on the one hand, creates wonderful opportunities to see great artists up close (and pay them money directly for their art!) but could also reinforce our music scenes as siloed, gated communities, where you have to "know someone" to even know that a cool show is happening.

Closing out the "show" portion of this particular birthday party, Charlotte Cornfield stripped back some of the songs from her The Shape of Your Name album, as well as testing out some new material — one song was even new to drummer Evan Cartwright (who was doing double-duty on the night).

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