Noah Gundersen
With Silver Torches.
Noah Gundersen
Folk rocker Noah Gundersen edged into the mainstream as a solo artist via songs placed in popular TV series (“Family” was featured on both Sons of Anarchy and The Vampire Diaries), while continuing to play with The Courage and even reuniting with Beneath Oceans, his high school band. Although Gundersen is known for introspective songwriting, his new album White Noise looks outward and finds a society seemingly collapsing into a poisoned collective consciousness. The pop/rock songs feel anthemic until you catch up to the words. With Silver Torches.
$17 ($15 adv.; ages 18+). Doors 7 pm.
press release: Two years after the release of his highly acclaimed LP Carry The Ghost, Seattle native Noah Gundersen has unleashed his newest body work entitled White Noise in September through Cooking Vinyl. The album will feature 13 brand new tracks that were written and recorded in Gundersen’s home state of Washington. Though, this album almost didn't happen for Gundersen.
The creation of White Noise started long before Gundersen stepped into the four walls of his 1,600 sq. ft. loft of his homemade studio on the marina in Ballard, Washington. “At the start of 2016, I walked on stage and was met with a feeling of overwhelming emptiness,” explains Gundersen. “I imagined a career playing music I didn’t believe in and was terrified.” After his set, Gundersen heard a fellow songwriter quote choreographer Martha Graham: "No artist is pleased... there is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
This opened the idea of White Noise and shortly after, Gundersen went to his home of Seattle, and spent a summer writing almost 30+ songs for the album and recorded 26 altogether.
The second single is "Bad Desire:"