Mandolin Orange at the Boch Center

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Dates:	Saturday, November 23, 2019 - Saturday, November 23, 2019
Hours:	8:00PM
Ages:	Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$$ see below
Category:	Theater & Shows

On Tides of A Teardrop, released on February 1, it is more potent than ever.

By all accounts, it is the duo’s fullest, richest, and most personal effort.

You can hear the air between them—the taut space of shared understanding, as palpable as a magnetic field, that makes their music sound like two halves of an endlessly completing thought.

Singer-songwriter Andrew Marlin and multi-instrumentalist Emily Frantz have honed this lamp glow intimacy for years.

On Tides of A Teardrop, Marlin wrote the songs, as he usually does, in a sort of stream of consciousness, allowing words and phrases to pour out of him as he hunted for the chords and melodies.

Then, as he went back to sharpen what he found, he found something troubling and profound.

Intimations of loss have always haunted the edges of their music, their lyrics hinting at impermanence and passing of time.

But Tides of A Teardrop confronts a defining loss head-on: Marlin's mother, who died of complications from surgery when he was 18.

These songs, as well as their sentiments, remain simple and quiet, like all of their music.

But beneath the hushed surface, they are staggeringly straightforward.

“I’ve been holding on to the grief for a long time.

In some ways I associated the grief and the loss with remembering my mom.

I feel like I’ve mourned long enough.

I’m ready to bring forth some happier memories now, to just remember her as a living being.'

For this album, Marlin and Frantz enlisted their touring band, who they also worked with on their last album Blindfaller.

Having recorded all previous albums live in the studio, they approached the recording process in a different way this time.

“We went and did what most people do, which we’ve never done before—we just holed up somewhere and worked the tunes out together,” Frantz says.

There is a telepathy and warmth in the interplay on Tides of A Teardrop that brings a new dynamic to the foreground—that holy silence between notes, the air that charges the album with such profound intimacy.

“This record is a little more cosmic, almost in a spiritual way—the space between the notes was there to suggest all those empty spaces the record touches on,” acknowledges Marlin.

There are many powerful ways of acknowledging loss; sometimes the most powerful one is saying nothing at all.

COST

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Tickets start at $29.50

WEBSITE

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www.bochcenter.org/buy/show-listing/mandolin-orange

LOCATION

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265 Tremont St, Boston, MA, 02116 map
Phone: 866-348-9738

Boch Center Shubert Theatre
265 Tremont St
Boston MA 02116