I’m happy to announce we’ve released another song into this crazy world! “Horses in the Sky” is the final single from LONG DAY IN THE MILKY WAY before the whole record comes out on August 14th.
“Horses in the Sky” (not to be confused with Rickie Lee Jones’ “The Horses,” which is also on the record - I know, I know) was the first song I wrote that gave me an inkling of where I was headed with this record, what musical and lyrical ideas it was going to center around. This is a song about holding on to hope. It’s about the darkness that lurks around every life, about not letting that darkness swallow us. You can find it in all the usual online places, and if you want to share it around or add it to your playlists, that definitely would not be a bad thing.
Making videos in quarantine has been an interesting challenge, but I actually loved working on this one long-distance style with the amazing editor Maya Pisciotto. With her guidance and a lot of conversations back and forth between me in New England and her in California, I shot the footage in and near my house (with invaluable assistance from my podmates, including some strong work on a few shots from a 12-year-old videographer who had to be bribed with pie) and sent it all to her in a heap. Maya took all this distinctly unpolished raw material and magically edited it into something quite beautiful, a meditative, non-literal dance through darkness and light. I love the very end of it so much. This song means a lot to me, and I hope it has something to offer some of you in these fraught days.
VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON SHOWS
Two very different performances are happening in the next couple weeks. First, a livestream on August 7 with the London-area venue The Green Note, a sweet Camden club I’ve played in person several times over the years. This one is in the round with two friends I haven’t seen for years, Devon Sproule and Carsie Blanton who I’m really looking forward to hearing and communing with (even in a grid of squares). This show is at 8pm UK time, which could make a nice daytime show for people Stateside too (3pm ET/noon PT).
I also have a live IN-PERSON show at Black Birch Vineyard in Hatfield, MA on August 18. There are very few invitations to play live that I would consider accepting right now, but I trust the folks at Signature Sounds to do a thoughtful, responsible job of putting on a show under current circumstances and I can vouch that they are taking every detail extremely seriously in setting these events up. More info is on the ticket page here. We’ll play some songs from LONG DAY IN THE MILKY WAY and some older more familiar songs too, assuming we remember how…
Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the Friends & Fans Advance Preorder on Bandcamp - packages all shipped out at the end of last week, and should be making their way to you soon if they haven’t already. If anyone has any issues with their order, please let us know at info@krisdelmhorst.com and someone will help you out. If you missed that wave, you can still preorder the album in digital or physical form on my Bandcamp page. I appreciate all the notes of encouragement and am so happy that the new songs are finally free to go meet new people.
More next week on release day! *kd
UPCOMING SHOWS:
AUGUST 7 - “Virtually Green Note” (CAMDEN, UK) in the round with Devon Sproule & Carsie Blanton - 8pm BST Links/Info
AUGUST 18 - KD LIVE (SOCIALLY-DISTANCED) SHOW at Black Birch Vineyard, HATFIELD, MA 6:30PM ET Tix/Info