Wednesday October 12 * 7pm * TICKETS
At the heart of Rabbit Rabbit Radio are singing violinist/composer Carla Kihlstedt and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Matthias Bossi. The band often expands to include their collaborators Jeremy Flower and Jon Evans, but this time they come to serenade you as a duo. Their music draws on their collective love of heart-wrenching balladry, art song, folk song, industrial music and improvised music. The bands they have collectively been in include Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, Skeleton Key, Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava, 2 Foot Yard, The Book of Knots and Causing a Tiger. If you listen closely, you’ll hear traces of their many musical associations, but in RRR, they dare to peel back influence and to reveal a music that is stripped down and intimate, and all the more powerful for it.
Tom Carter's electric guitar work weaves strands of melody, drone, fuzz, and charged silence into intricately detailed instant compositions. Best known for his work with iconoclastic acid-folk improvisers Charalambides (which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991), Tom Carter has focused on solo performances and recordings since 2012. His 2015 double LP on Three Lobed Records Long Time Underground is the final installment of a trilogy begun in 2009 with The Dance From Which All Dances Come and continued with 2014's Numinal Entry. Long Time Underground was selected as the number-one experimental album of 2015 by The Out Door/ Pitchfork.
Tom Carter frequently collaborates with other musicians. His regular projects include a duo with No Neck Blues Band co-founder Pat Murano, free-rock improvisers Eleven Twenty-Nine (Carter, Marc Orleans, and Michael Evans), Spiderwebs (with Houston guitarist Sandy Ewen), Sarin Smoke (with Peter Swanson), Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, and others), and various ensembles with Bay Area sound artist and composer Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included Gate, Loren Connors, Jandek, Bardo Pond, Tom Surgal, Thurston Moore, Steve Gunn, Dredd Foole, Pip Proud, Tim Barnes, Aaron Rosenblum, Dora Bleu, Sam Shalabi, Marcia Bassett, Christian Kiefer, Paul Flaherty, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shawn David McMillen, Inca Ore, Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique, Helena Espvall, Robert Millis, and Matt Valentine, among many others.