Adeline Hotel (USA) + Cameron Knowler + Phoebe Troup

Adeline Hotel:

In the tender, surrealist world that Dan Knishkowy has developed under the name Adeline Hotel, stories have been told through sprawling psych-rock epics, stark solo guitar performances, piano-led orchestral song cycles, and lush, jazzy compositions that felt like a genre unto themselves. Inspired by indie lifers and fellow world-builders like Jim O’Rourke and Phil Elverum, the Ruination Records co-founder has rewritten the rule book with each new project, inviting listeners to join as he discovers new channels for his singular voice. By now the sound of Adeline Hotel is equally identifiable through Knishkowy’s dextrous fingerpicking—the aural equivalent of tracing your fingers through cool sand at sunrise—as his low, whispered vocals and autumnal melodies.

Cameron Knowler:

On the dusty streets of Yuma, Arizona, under a brilliantly ubiquitous sun, Cameron Knowler spent his childhood picking guitar and racing motorcycles at the foothills of the Gila Mountains. It was from this setting - a desert town gilded in silence, home to 90% of North America’s lettuce production and a high school that once functioned as a territorial prison - that Knowler developed his place-based philosophy of documentation. An acclaimed educator, multi-instrumentalist, and recording artist, Knowler specializes in the art of the conceptual record, putting forth instrumental works that Folk Radio UK has referred to as “Western sound-painting.” His craft follows in the theoretical footsteps of instrumentalist and songwriter Norman Blake and expands upon that territorial folk convention: Knowler brandishes a post-modern perspective on American traditional music that nods to both his formal theory training and his roots in the American West.

Phoebe Troup (support):

Phoebe Troup is a UK-based singer-songwriter and producer from Colorado, US. Phoebe makes DIY alt-folk, rock, and art-pop, taking inspiration from encounters with landscape, mythology & art. Her music ties an other-worldly sense of place from lyrics through to production, mixing sounds of crunching apples, rattling seashells and flintstones with distorted guitars, soft synths and vocal layering.