Name: Sound of Honey & Corsicana
Start: 2024-11-21T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Chautauqua Community House

Sound of Honey:
Where there’s honey, there’s a buzz. This rings true for the Colorado based band, Sound of Honey. Emma Rose (formerly of Big Richard) has been steeped in the music scene since she entered this world. Raised by two talented musicians and with a natural knack for songwriting, Rose has spent the last few years fine tuning her quiver of indie-soul-folk songs with only the finest pollen that the spring flowers have to offer. Rich, crystalline vocal melodies weave themselves through a sweet sonic landscape created with the help of Tobias Bank (Whippoorwill, Frail Talk) on drums, percussion, and backup vocals, Matt Cantor on bass, and Enmanuel Alexander on electric guitar. Together their warm hues, sultry harmonies and gentle tones create an experience of overall mellow- sparking curiosity of oneself and the emotions that come with diving into the human experience.
Corsicana:
Corsicana is Denver musician Ben Pisano's sometimes-cathartic-&-sometimes-serene love letter to indie rock. Electronic flourishes cocoon delicately plucked guitars, and cassette-warped keys are blanketed atop tape-saturated drums. Lyrics explore specific struggles and tangible experiences as if they were a dream only vaguely recalled months later. Meditative, introspective, & literary songwriting is the priority here, though never at the expense of memorable melodies and phrases that might slink their way into the subconscious.
Kept, the 3rd full-length from Corsicana, began as a series of sparse, intimate voice memos. Songs were written as a means to work through the trauma & emotional turmoil that permeated Pisano’s first few years of adulthood. Ludlow mourns eroded friendships, while other songs, like Holden, consider the allure of surrendering to unhealthy patterns of fixation. Seraph was written during the heart of the pandemic as a mantra of optimism - an artist’s attempt at self-reassurance. Having largely been written and recorded in Pisano’s childhood home, the arrangement and production found across Kept’s 11 tracks feel as one might expect: nostalgic, understated, and, ultimately, inextricable from the emotional arc of the record itself.
Corsicana has become an established artist in the Colorado music scene since their debut in 2014, having opened for acts such as Devotchka, Hippo Campus, Deep Sea Diver, The Greeting Committee, & Wye Oak, among others. They have toured the West Coast three times, with plans for more in the works. Corsicana’s 3rd full-length, Kept, released in October 2023.