Conveniently coinciding with the two year anniversary of Kurtis Eugene releasing his last album Old Rooms, New Light, we’re seeing a standalone tease of what the esoteric musician has been up to. “Rosa” is the first new song we’ve heard from Eugene in all that time, and if anything it provides a clear signal of where he’s shifted. Continue reading Single: Kurtis Eugene Releases ‘Rosa’ and Teases New Album
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Lost & Found: Kurtis Eugene Revisits ‘November’
Kurtis Eugene is a hard artist to pin down. His “debut” album Old Rooms, New Light straddles a line between traditional folk and modern esoteric waltzes. Simultaneously intimate and grand, it feels like chamber music that’s been written for your grandfather’s guitar. It hovers just this side of magic, but to get there it was seemingly necessary that Eugene explore something even more otherworldly. Before Old Rooms, New Light could be manifested there was November, Eugene’s 2013 six-song EP that, for five years, dwelt in musical purgatory. Continue reading Lost & Found: Kurtis Eugene Revisits ‘November’
New Music: Kurtis Eugene’s ‘Old Rooms New Light’
Halifax’s Kurtis Eugene has released his debut EP, ‘Old Rooms New Light’. An album written and recorded partially in Milford, Nova Scotia, and partially in Christchurch, New Zealand, ‘Old Rooms New Light’ provides an experience of otherworldly acoustic chill, with haunting vocals over orchestral guitars. With a distinct indie sound that seems the lovechild of Radiohead and Fleet Foxes, or a second generation Bert Jansch, ‘Old Rooms New Light’ is clearly the product of a long, focused writing and recording process. Continue reading New Music: Kurtis Eugene’s ‘Old Rooms New Light’