Lazyhorse 

Lazyhorse marks the latest chapter in Raven Chacon’s nearly decade-long collaboration with The Living Earth Show (percussionist Andy Meyerson and guitarist Travis Andrews). Known for transforming the chamber ensemble model into a platform for genre-defying invention, The Living Earth Show builds immersive sonic worlds with their collaborators. 

After their lauded piece Tremble Staves, Chacon and The Living Earth Show joined forces around a new vision, this time centering songcraft, improvisation, and the unruly edges of music. Drawing on Chacon’s roots in noise, thrash, and metal (Tenderizor, KILT, White People Killed Them), and The Living Earth Show’s foundations in rock, punk, and experimental music (COMMANDO, Dr. Bittinger, Freighter) Lazyhorse is designed to build a collaborative artistic language enacting an exploratory, almost meditative excavation of American musical traditions: country, folk, and their haunted echoes.

Lazyhorse assembles a powerhouse lineup: Mali Obomsawin (bass, vocals), Miriam Elhajli (vocals, guitar), Steve Hammond (lap steel), Raven Chacon (keys/guitars), Travis Andrews (guitar), and Andy Meyerson (percussion). Together, they form a genre-exploding band that dissects and reconstructs the mythology of Americana, stitching together songs that are as biting as they are hauntingly beautiful.

At its core, Lazyhorse is haunted by the spaghetti western—a film genre that injected moral ambiguity into the clean-cut heroics of the American frontier myth. In Lazyhorse’s hands, these disillusioned antiheroes become sonic archetypes, spectral guides complicit in westward violence, leading us through a landscape where distortion, silence, and satire collide.

Lazyhorse confronts the violence of empire through sound, turning the stage into a site of reckoning, reclamation, and radical reimagination.