
Hand Habits
Mississippi Studios
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Portland
Friday, October 17 at 9 pm PDT
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Friday, October 17 at 9 pm PDT
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w/ Olivia Kaplan
Hand Habits:
For artists who have built a creative practice centered around vulnerability, what could possibly feel more exposing? For Meg Duffy, the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter known as Hand Habits, it turns out there are things even more daunting than excavating unhappiness or grappling with personal identity.
“For this record I had set out to write less as a way to process grief, dredge up trauma, or consider heartache, and more as a way to tap into something that was surprisingly more challenging — to allow myself to feel into in the given moment-the decision I made to no longer shape shift when it came to the person I become in the face of love,” explains Duffy.
Recorded in Los Angeles alongside co-producer Joseph Lorge, Blue Reminder finds Duffy once again collaborating with an impressive coterie of musicians, including Alan Wyffels,Gregory Uhlmann (Duffy’s collaborator in Duffy x Uhlmann), Blake Mills, Tim Carr, Daniel Aged, and Joshua Johnson and Anna Butters of SML. Having spent a big part of the last decade on the road, both as a solo artist and as a touring member of Perfume Genius, Duffy’s affinity for playing live in a room with other musicians was the impetus for the record, which was largely tracked live.
Olivia Kaplan:
Olivia Kaplan (b. 1992, California) is a musician from Los Angeles. Her songs explore the secret bonds between grief and time, slowness and memory, sadness and sleep.
Her latest release, Afterlife, asks how death shapes our deepest-held beliefs and rearranges our sensory experience of the world. Made in collaboration with producer Evan Wright, the record lives in the sonics of sparseness but finds its lifeline in Olivia’s voice – blue and sunlit – sinking like a warm anchor. Her songwriting is equally inspired by Bill Callahan, Gillian Welch, and Neil Young as it has been compared to Cat Power and Cowboy Junkies.
Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut LP Tonight Turns To Nothing (2021) on Topshelf Records, Kaplan has toured with Billie Marten, Miya Folick, and Helena Deland. She has also shared the stage with The War on Drugs, Buck Meek, Katie Gavin, Cassandra Jenkins, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, and Courtney Marie Andrews
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