Kalbells & Erica Esso

Name: Kalbells & Erica Esso
Start: 2025-10-10T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T23:00:00-04:00
Location: 210 Main St, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301

Schedule

Fri Oct 10 2025 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

210 Main St, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301 | Brattleboro, VT

Kalbells is a supergroup merging the talents of Kalmia Traver (Rubblebucket), Angelica Bess (Body Language), and Sarah K Pedinotti (LIP TALK).
Sprouted as Kalmia’s solo debut “Ten Flowers" (2017) the act quickly evolved into an all-star groove collective, touring extensively in the US, Canada & the UK, taping a Tiny Desk concert and winning over fans with their cheeky lyrics, warm & dreamy bedroom pop moods, deeply funky bass lines and powerfully tight vocal harmonies. The second album, “Max Heart” (2021), harnesses this magnetic power for a collection of songs that are packed with inspired tension and daring surreality. Whether live or in the studio, Kalbells is a testament to the magic of creative synergy.
“Crackly and tactile, it feels like a dazzling celebration” - FADER
“The joie de vivre is palpable.” - NPR
Erica Eso is a Brooklyn and Kingston, NY-based project led by composer / vocalist / producer Weston Minissali. Minissali has participated in New York’s music scene for more than decade as a member of projects like avant-rock post-pop band Cloud Becomes Your Hand (Northern Spy, Feeding Tube) and chimeric musique concrète experimentalists VaVatican (NNA Tapes), while his work at the head of Erica Eso has manifested with varied ensembles on albums including 2019 (Ramp Local, 2015) and 129 Dreamless GMG (NNA Tapes, 2018). Minissali’s music under the Erica Eso banner fuses compositional strategies of the avant garde, including the use of microtonal note voicings and advanced synthesis, with songwriting in the vein of art pop. His lush, tightly structured songs teem with melismatic topline melodies, layered vocal harmonies, and fast-shifting narrative arcs, all built over a sturdy instrumental foundation. 192, the first Erica Eso release with Hausu Mountain, captures the project in the quintet formation that solidified in 2017 and rigorously rehearsed in the years that followed. Their recordings and the live shows from this period, which culminated in their final performance in this configuration in October of 2019, document the music of Erica Eso at a peak of live band complexity and near telepathic collaborative energy, giving life to Minissali’s music with a more solidified ensemble of hands and voices than ever before.