Chris Kasper premiers new track on the ‘Homegrown’ show with Mike Vasilikos
“Last Trace” is the first new song from local singer-songwriter Chris Kasper since his 2024 album, ‘Sunlight In An Empty Room.’ Listen to the song and his interview with Mike V. here.
Chris Kasper – Homegrown Show 11.10.26
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Philadelphia’s Chris Kasper just dropped a new single and was kind enough to stop by WXPN to debut the new track on Tuesday’s Local Show with host Mike Vasilikos.
“Last Trace” is the first bit of new music from Kasper, an XPN regular, since 2024’s Sunlight In An Empty Room, his seventh album in 20 years.
”It really kind of explores that last little gleam of light, when you’re watching the end of something finally fade,” he said.
Kasper was inspired by a meditation technique wherein the practitioner listens to the entire peal of a ringing bell.
“Listen to the whole thing until there’s absolutely no sound left,” he said. “That’s kind of what this song was about, like a spark, like the end of a firework when you watch it fall and watch that ember fall into its last little glimpse of light.”
In debuting “Last Trace,” Kasper said his eighth album is in the works and is expected to drop in spring 2027 via Royal Potato Records.
”I went into the depths of my sadness, in the depths of my grief,” he said of the writing process. “I’d lost my father and some personal relationships gone haywire.”
But, he didn’t want to “bum people out.”
“I needed to make something beautiful out of that sadness, and I think that that has a lot to do with world events, with personal events, and that’s going to definitely shape and influence the type of song that I’m going to probably make.”
Kasper will hit the road Thursday for a nine-date run in support of The Bone of J.R. Jones.
Listen to Kasper’s interview with Vasilikos in the player above, and listen to “Last Trace” below.
