Chris Bathgate’s Musical Journey From Living in a Forest to Working for Tech Startup

Sound & Vision

Chris Bathgate talks about his new record, The Significance of Peaches, which was released after living in a national forest in Michigan, farming in California, working at a tech startup in San Francisco, having a child and moving back home to Michigan.

Subscribe Here:

Apple PodcastsGoogle Podcasts Overcast Podcasts  Pocket Casts  Stitcher  Spotify

photo by Misty Lyn Bergeron

Chris Bathgate talks about his new record, The Significance of Peaches, which was released after living in a national forest in Michigan, farming in California, working at a tech startup in San Francisco, having a child and moving back home to Michigan. He talks about his journey and the album’s themes of nature, ‘baby fever,’ and the social inequities he saw in San Francisco between the working elite and the homeless.  

“I was shocked that a person could be in obvious need of immediate help and everyone can just walk past on their phone talking about where they are going to get oysters later [while] people [are] sleeping in the doorstep of Dolce & Gabbana,” Bathgate says.  

More From Sound & Vision

Black rockers in Seattle speak with contributor Mia Imani about navigating a music scene that has historically excluded them and about reclaiming a genre that …

Alex Bingham talks with Emily Fox about how the death of four loved ones in the same year led him to make an album and how music brought joy back into his life…

Andre 3000 has returned with a new record called New Blue Sun… only, instead of rapping he’s playing the flute. Subscribe Here:     &…