White Hinterland to perform at The Bishop

Whether it was the rainy birch forests of Portland, Ore. or the blend of Renaissance music that inspired Casey Dienel to write her latest White Hinterland album, the finished product, titled “Kairos,” is something she says she feels most proud of.

White Hinterland, along with Bloomington’s Dreamers of the Ghetto will be performing
Sunday at The Bishop.

“I have really found direction and meaning from my first album to forming White Hinterland,” Dienel said.

“Wind-Up Canary,” Dienel’s first album, was released when she was just 19 and didn’t even consider herself a musician.

Since then, Dienel has teamed up with Shawn Creeden to form White Hinterland — the duo has released three albums together.

“Shawn and I have similar musical goals and both use music as an escape,” Dienel said of the pair.

Of her performance style, Dienel said that she is used to fighting for attention while on stage.

“I am very used to the bar-type venues where the atmosphere is rowdy and loud,” she said. “I find it to be a real treasure when the audience is quiet and attentive. It’s very
generous.”

After applying the finishing touches on “Kairos,” an unexpected honor struck White Hinterland. Gretchen Jones, Project Runway season eight winner and friend to Dienel asked to feature one of White Hinterland’s songs during the season finale’s
fashion show.

Dienel and Jones had known each other in Portland.

Dienel said she was honored when she received the secret e-mail from Jones about the project.

“The song we chose to feature was a different version of ‘Icarus’ from ‘Kairos.’ Because the songs featured couldn’t have lyrics, we created a special instrumental version. The finished product was so different from the original, listening to it on the finale was like an out of body experience,” Dienel said.

All else aside, for the members of White Hinterland, making music is all about transporting themselves and the audience to another place.

“It is such an amazing experience seeing what space elements of the music you make can take you to,” Dienel said. “The juxtaposition of hard beats with a feminine voice is something we really tried to exemplify.”

WHITE HINTERLAND, DREAMERS OF THE GHETTO
WHEN 8 p.m. Sunday
WHERE The Bishop, 123 S. Walnut St.
ADMISSION $5 in advance, $8 day of show
MORE INFO Tickets may be purchased at The Bishop, Landlocked Music, TD’s, the Buskirk-Chumley box office and online www.atthebishopbar.com.