FR 141: Steve Hauschildt’s New Album Is a Slow-Motion Explosion of Color

The Cleveland native on his new album, life in Tbilisi, and what’s next for Emeralds

In the six years since Steve Hauschildt released his last album, 2019’s Nonlin, plenty has happened in his life. Having moved to Chicago from his native Cleveland a few years after Emeralds’ 2013 dissolution, he picked up stakes yet again during the pandemic and settled in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he’s been living since 2022. During those transitional ye…