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CHIRP Welcomes: Allegra Krieger + Greg Mendez
Schubas
3159 N. Southport
Chicago
,
IL
60657
(773) 525-2508
18+
CHIRP welcomes Allegra Krieger and Greg Mendez to Schubas on Friday, October 25th!
While Krieger’s music is clearly rooted in this present moment, its varied influences offer it a timelessness. Weaving through the sonic world of Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine is the unpretentious storytelling of Suzanne Vega and the stark intimacy of Lucinda Williams.
While working on the album, Krieger was reading Susan Sontag’s Against Interpretation; she was listening to SZA and the Swedish songwriter Stina Nordenstam. These influences amalgamate into an album brimming with life – and all that it holds: a joke at a family reunion, a suicide at a thanksgiving dinner, a little black dog running up the street as trash spirals into the air.
For Greg Mendez, reflection doesn't mean a static image in a mirror, or even a face he recognizes. It's more a kaleidoscopic mirage, where paths taken shapeshift with the prospect of paths untread, and the subconscious merges with the intentional. On his self-titled new album, the Philadelphia-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist investigates the shaky camera of memory, striving to carve out a collage that points to a truth.