Announcing Hospice at Ten: Live in Chicago
Pre-order vinyl and/or listen now
After much insinuation, it is my pleasure to finally announce the imminent release of Hospice at Ten: Live in Chicago.
Hospice at Ten: Live in Chicago is a live album recorded across 2 nights at Chicago’s famed Thalia Hall along our 10-year anniversary tour of Hospice in 2019.
The album is only available via Bandcamp, as a double LP or digital download.
Pre-order on brick red vinyl, and/or download immediately here.
Vinyl preorders will ship on or before April 25th.
Hospice at Ten: Live in Chicago is perhaps a bit of an unusual live album, which follows from the way we presented these performances back in 2019. The band of myself, Michael Lerner, and Tim Mislock had minimal instrumentation onstage: two voices, an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, and a snare drum. Through these limitations, we aimed to carve Hospice in negative relief.
Crowds for these sold-out shows were incredible— pin-drop quiet during the music, rapturous in between, and occasionally unsure of whether to remain respectfully silent or applaud. From our perspective onstage, those responses made the whole room vibrate.
But in listening back to these recordings and trying to place myself as a listener, I found the silence between songs powerful too. It underlined a chilling atmosphere, well-tuned to the subject matter and spare arrangements. And so in assembling and editing these recordings, I elected to remove the sounds of the audience between songs.
The result is a particularly haunted live album, as well as what I’ve come to think of as an alternate version of Hospice: markedly different from the original 2009 studio album, but possessing a kindred spirit.
We’re releasing the album ourselves through Field’s Edge, a newly-created label imprint for various upcoming projects in the Antlers universe.
Hospice at Ten: Live in Chicago is available to pre-order on vinyl, and download immediately here.
Credits
Vocals, acoustic guitar by Peter Silberman
Electric guitar, vocals by Tim Mislock
Snare drum by Michael Lerner
Recorded by Rubes Harman at Thalia Hall in Chicago, IL
on April 5th & 6th, 2019
Mixed by Nicholas Principe at People Teeth in Kingston, NY
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion in Portland, OR
Original cover by Zan Goodman
Jacket design by Ryan Hover
Gatefold photography by Omari Spears
A Cowboy Sadness update
There are a few Cowboy Sadness shows coming up next month. This will be our first time transporting jambience across state lines.
Tickets for all these shows are on sale here.
3/22 Tubby’s - Kingston, NY - tickets
3/28 Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN - tickets
3/29 Across The Horizon at Big Ears Festival - Knoxville, TN
3/30 Ayurprana Listening Room - sound bath (early) and show (later) - tickets
Back in Antlerland, the next LP is in its finishing stages. Recording at Field’s Edge is complete, mixing at People Teeth is underway.
And over in the natural world, snow is quietly blanketing everything in a tranquil counterpoint to the calamity just beyond the tree line.
And when in Dolby atmos please!???