ALL AGES. Proof of vaccination required for entry. Masks are required at all times for audience members and performers (masks are optional only while performing).
DOORS 6:30 / SHOW 7:00 / DONE BY 9:30 / Tickets $10
DPCD is the work of Illinois musician Alec Watson. Taking its name after a four-letter secret code given to him by his great-grandfather, DPCD’s music is intimate and soft spoken, with Watson's meditative singing illuminated by fragile webs of guitar, piano, and celeste.
2021 saw two new DPCD releases: their third full-length It's Hard for a Rich Man to Enter the Kingdom of God and the home-recorded antique curiosity DPCD SINGS.
On Rich Man, Watson explores spirituality, anti-capitalism, and ambiguous loss. But rather than lecture on these themes, the album’s eleven songs feel their way through them. Stretches of wordless vocals and strands of repeated melodies lull listeners into a trance, and interlocking tapestries of guitar spin up ghosts of past selves.
DPCD SINGS conjures specters of a different sort. A home recording project, the album presents 16 original songs documenting an obsession with the Great American Songbook, its counterparts, and its living forms. The music contains nods to the great musical theater composers of the mid 20th century, the working Tin Pan Alley songwriter, and the common song. Hazed-out barbershop quartets dovetail with lonely piano ballads, lovingly embracing rhyme scheme and form. The verses linger on surrealist themes: specters swirl through dim hallways, mirrors reflect faces of unrequited lovers, and fading memories flicker under the light of the moon.
Watson lives and works in Chicago, IL.
https://dpcddpcd.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dpcdalecwatsondpcd
Jesse in Grey is the songwriting project of Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Jesse Bielenberg. His recorded music contains ingredients consistent with folk, rock, chamber, emo, & shoegaze, but he likes to think of it as "comfortcore." Jesse has two EPs under his vegan leather belt, with songs ruminating on trees & television & loving & domesticity & growing up & the grey in-between spaces of uncertainty.
https://www.instagram.com/jesse_in_grey
https://jesseingrey.bandcamp.com/
Sigra (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Madison, WI. Her music is often introspective and atmospheric, and her love of language and word play makes her densely packed lyrics lend themselves to mutiple listens. Sigra is an experimental indie pop outfit, backed by the music collective members in MQBS.
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TYOjW7OPiRVOJt6FjhQDw
https://www.instagram.com/sirsigra/
Sigra on Communication’s 2021 Queer Madison Mixtape: https://queermadisonmixtape.bandcamp.com/album/queer-madison-mixtape-summers-ends
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