Black Marble
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Constellation Room, Santa Ana, CA, United States
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1720, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Harlow's Night Club - The Starlet Room, Sacramento, CA, United States
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The Crocodile, Seattle, WA, United States
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Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR, United States
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Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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The Slowdown, Omaha, NE, United States
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Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN, United States
with Public Circuit and Jimmy Cicero
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Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL, United States
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About Black Marble
Genre
Pop
When Chris Stewart set out to write and record his third album as Black Marble, he was newly living in Los Angeles, fresh off a move from New York. The environment brought much excitement and possibility, but the distance had proved too much for the car he brought along. With it out of commission indefinitely, he purchased a bus pass and planned his daily commute from his Echo Park apartment to his downtown studio, where he began to shape Bigger Than Life. The route wound all through the city, from the small local shops of Echo Park to the rising glass of the business district, to the desperation of Skid Row. The hurried energy of the environment provided a backdrop for the daily trip. When Stewart finally arrived at his studio, he’d look through his window at the mountains and the sky, seeing the beauty that makes L.A. unique — the same beauty his fellow commuters, some pushed to the edge of human endurance, had seen. That was the headspace he was in when he began to map out the syncopated drums and staccato arpeggiation of Bigger Than Life, an ode to his new condition and a shimmering synth-pop response to its cacophony.