Side Yard Sounds: Kouri Hall + Velvet Penny
Kouri Hall is multi-instrumentalists and visual artists Chad Kouri and Andy Hall creating mixed genre sound influenced by jazz, rock, folk, funk, hip-hop, house, ambient, and high school band, based in Chicago’s vast history of improvised music. Their systematic yet spontaneous minds make music out of intuitive feelings and improvised mantras, celebrating protest, joy, exuberance & play.
Velvet Penny is an artrock group based out of Los Angeles spearheaded and fronted by Marlena. The project was first incepted as a solo endeavour but upon the release of Marlena's record, 'All the Flowers' a band formed at the end of 2022 and over the past four years has become what it is now, a power trio sharing music that borrows from folk, jazz, and rock to create tapestries of dynamic performances that hold room for dichotomy; raw and refined. strong and vulnerable. On October 2nd the group is set to release their new 12" vinyl record, 'Carousel Dreams', a shadowy body of work coming out on Psylk Rd. Records. To support the release the band is touring this fall from the South through the Midwest and over to the East Coast.
