Hen In the Foxhouse
Performs 7/19 @ Night School
21 Second Street Athens, NY 12015
MUSIC @ 7PM
Hen in the Foxhouse is the lo-fi indie project of Honduran American composer/lyricist, Elena Sophia Krell, most recently collaborating with multi-instrumentalist Ru Lemer (engineer, co-producer) and drummer Chris Gartmann (HV legends 3).
Born in Germany and growing up all over Europe and Latin America, Elena speaks five languages and considers music her first and primary one. She trained as an opera singer at Oberlin Conservatory and sang professionally for five years. She then earned a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University and went on to teach in Africana Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies at Vassar College for nine years before transitioning to part-time remote work and focusing on music full-time.
Her classical and academic trainings form a rich and diverse bedrock for music that is uniquely simultaneously languid and urgent. Her 5 full-length records and 3 EPs culminated in a 13-track record, Look Up, released August 2024.
Reminiscent of Natalia LaFourcade, The Magnetic Fields, and Philip Glass, Look Up (2024) feels eclectic but cohesive, like "an aquatic ecosystem of disparate plant and animal life that belong together."
Hen in the Foxhouse is based in the Hudson Valley, in Kingston, NY.