Carson McHone – Pentimento
pen·ti·men·to
a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas — early 20th century: from Italian, literally “repentance”
Today, Carson McHone announces Pentimento, out September 12 on Merge Records.
Her first full-length album since 2022’s Still Life, Pentimento finds McHone on the frontier of her musical imagination, channeling inputs as diverse and surprising as guitar rock, pastoral folk, poetry, field recordings, visual art, memory, family, and landscape into her most profound effort to date. She shares a first offering from Pentimento, “Winter Breaking,” which introduces the album’s titular traces, building itself out of birdsong and spoken word, along with a McHone-directed video featuring the art and work of ceramicist Alejandra Almuelle.
Carson McHone on Pentimento:
This project continues to be, really, a community effort. What began as a methodical structuring of personal artifacts kept speaking of collaboration, which allowed me to open up the process to others and bring it to life. Making the initial recording brought together a group of six musicians, but the project has expanded to include a web of many artists and disciplines. If my last album, Still Life, represents a static moment, a pause before a pivot, Pentimento is the natural next step. It’s full of movement—through time and space, through many forms… It’s a project that engages with shadow, with impulse, with paradox, and with play. I hope the record illustrates the process of integrating these things, of acknowledging the complexity of being/becoming. I am so happy to start releasing this out into the world now. So, we begin at the top, with the very opening of the album: “Winter Breaking.”
McHone will embark on a summer tour of Europe with Daniel Romano in July. US and Canadian tour dates are in the offing—including a listening party and multi-disciplinary performance of Pentimento for In the Soil Arts Festival: Harvesting the Soilin St. Catharines, ON, on September 12, the night of the album release, and a month-long Texas residency in October.
Carson McHone on tour:
Jul 18 Deventer, NL – Burgerweeshuis*
Jul 19 Rotterdam, NL – Rotown*
Jul 20 Venlo, NL – Grenswerk
Jul 24 Ermelo, NL – In De Rimboe
Jul 30 Barcelona, ES – Upload*
Aug 01 Madrid, ES – El Sol*
Aug 02 Valencia, ES – Loco Club*
Aug 07 Göteborg, SE – Way Out West
Aug 08 Fredrikstad, NO – Tæpes
Aug 12 Uppsala, SE – Katalin
Aug 13 Östersund, SE – Jazzköket
Aug 14 Trondheim, NO – Moskus
Aug 15 Ringebu, NO – Arnemoen Gard
Aug 16 Lidköping, SE – Bustad Brewing
Aug 17 Lund, SE – Merjeriet*
Aug 19 Drammen, NO – Kulturhus
Aug 20 Bergen, NO – Statraden
Aug 22 Vangen, NO – Haugesund Festival
Aug 23 Stockholm, SE – Stockholm Roots
*Supporting Daniel Romano’s Outfit
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