The Parlor is a project by husband and wife: Eric Krans and Jen O’Connor, named after a room in the 19th century farmhouse where they live, farm, and create. The multi-instrumentalist, producer-composers are polymathic naturalist-poet-philosophers who utilize music as a vessel for expressing the most powerful aspects of their shared human experience. They use music as seance, as a means to draw up from the depths the subtle, delicate, and shadowy existential relics. Their performances are noted for their heartfelt openness, authenticity and communitas. Immersive soundscaping and aural synesthetic-composition is the vessel through which they share their existence.
The Parlor’s music has been featured in:
Pitchfork | Northern Transmissions | Week In Pop |
Culture Collide | Consequence of Sound | KEXP | Bandcamp Weekly | PopMatters | Ravelin Magazine |
AudioFemme | The Owl Mag | Turntable Kitchen | NY Daily News | Chronogram |
Kid President | The Battery | After Midnight | The Great Unknown | among others
The Parlor has performed at the Farm Aid festival alongside music icons Neil Young, Willie Nelson, and Dave Matthews. They have opened for Grammy Nominated artists The Lumineers, and have shared the stage with Willy Mason, Deer Tick, Lucius, Langhorne Slim, Phantogram, Hop Along, Sharon VanEtten, Y la Bamba, and The Felice Brothers.