Sometimes playful, sometimes poignant, October Ember is comprised of Jennifer Dutiel and Kevin Holland, a multi-instrumentalist couple with a penchant for the quirky and the beautiful. OE’s music is a cross-pollination of prog folk, indie, and art pop music, with influences from the classical and jazz worlds. Their exploration of odd time signatures, minimalist pulses, ethereal timbres, and vast dynamic spectra transmutes ontology into sound. They are influenced by many artists, including Fiona Apple, Leonard Cohen, Julian Lage, and countless others. Their songs range in topic from kindness, humanism, mortality, and love to time, mental illness, light waves, hallucinations, and zen. OE is frequently joined by the lovely and multifaceted Troy Kunkler on percussion.
