Em Spel’s intricate, flute-driven alt-folk sounds like nothing else in Chicago. Led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emma Hospelhorn, Em Spel’s debut album, The Carillon Towers, was hailed by the Chicago Reader as “Scintillating” and by Dusted Magazine as “a folktale turned oddly, surreally modern, a magical realist scenario set in the right now.”Hospelhorn is a flutist in avant-classical group Ensemble Dal Niente, and her discography includes work on flutes, bass guitar, and keyboards for V.V. Lightbody, Mute Duo, and others working in a diverse array of genres including folk, drone, garage rock, post-punk, and classical. In this solo endeavor, she fuses all of these influences with story-driven lyrics to create invitingly strange folk vignettes.
Andrew Scott Young
Caroline Jesalva
$12 ADV/ $15 DOS plus fees
· 21+
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