Carbon Leaf

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When
Friday, Oct. 7, 2022
7:30 p.m.
Cost: $25
Where
301 SE Morrison St
Portland, OR 97214

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The ongoing Gathering series the band has been working on over the last few years is about building community.

“It’s a call to look inwards and find what matters, an invitation to reach out and embrace the gifts of human connection,” Privett says.

That’s no mean feat given the deep divisions that have defined much of the past few years of American life. Still, Carbon Leaf has always punched above their weight, defying the odds at every turn and redefining what’s possible for a modern indie band. The group’s extraordinary new mini-album, Gathering 2: The Hunting Ground, is no exception. Recorded at the band’s own studio in Richmond, VA, the collection marks the second installment of the group’s four-part Gathering series, which finds the long-running quintet stripping their sound back to its organic, acoustic core as they reckon with our ever-conflicting desires for unity and independence. The songs here are gutsy and probing, grappling with grief, loss, anger, and pain, and the arrangements are aggressive and insistent to match, fueled by layers of relentlessly strummed guitars, rolling banjo, and lush fiddle. The result is a moving, cathartic collection that’s unafraid to confront darkness and doubt head-on, a poignant, revelatory record of the power of self-reflection and the ties that bind.