Mercury Rev at Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL

Mercury Rev at Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in Chicago, IL Happening on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at Empty Bottle. Doors open at 8:00 PM.

Doors: 7PM / Show: 8PM / 21+In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums – and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow. Spiritually, literally, psycho-geographically: where else does Mercury Revs ninth album Born Horses spring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazz folk-baroque-ambient quest that searches its soul but can never truly know the answer? A sound and vision linked to their exalted past whilst quite unlike anything they have created before? The answer is somewhere between the homes of founder members Jonathan Donahue (the hamlet of Mt Tremper) and Grasshopper (the town of Kingston), in their veins and brains of their now-legendary tapping of musical cosmology, and the vital presence of new permanent member Marion Genser (keys), plus long term ally Jesse Chandler (keys) and guests Jeff Lipstein (drums), Martin Keith (double bass) and Jim Burgess (trumpet). A place that feeds off the levitating mood of their last album, 2019s expansive tribute Bobbie Gentrys The Delta Sweete Revisited, and the instrumental psych explorations under the names of Harmony Rockets and Mercury Revs Clear Light Ensemble, and the spiritual guidance of avant-garde artist Tony Conrad and Beat poet Robert Creeley, to whom Born Horses is dedicated. The record began with skeletal chords and a surge of self-reflection, from where we are vulnerable alive to the notions and motions of time and reality

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Event Venue - Empty Bottle

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Venue-Date-Time - Empty Bottle-2025-04-22-20:00

 

Date And Time

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025 @ 08:00 PM
 

Venue

Empty Bottle
 

Location

1035 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60622
 

Event Types

AlternativeAlternative Rock
 

Event Category

ChicagoIllinois

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