Charalambides, Emili Earhart, Taralie Peterson/Patrick Best Duo | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Charalambides, Emili Earhart, Taralie Peterson/Patrick Best Duo

Charalambides founders Tom and Christina Carter dedicate themselves to a vision of iconoclastic music as transformative force. Touching on the outer limits of acid folk, psych rock, and improvisation, their music remains uniquely personal and consistent through apparently extreme shifts in sound and performance tactics.

Despite Tom and Christina Carter’s prolific solo careers and numerous other projects, Charalambides has existed in an unbroken trajectory for over two-and-a-half decades, outlasting the genres that critics and other yardstick-makers have tried to cram them into. Their recent performances and recordings retain the directness and delicate menace that mark their early releases, even as they explore an interlocking musical telepathy honed by years of artistic collaboration.

Opening sets by Emili Earhart and a collaboration between Taralie Peterson (Spires That In The Sunset Rise, Louise Bock) and Patrick Best (Pelt, Spiral Joy Band).

Tickets are $10 ahead of time at https://chara.bpt.me or $12 at the door. Music begins at 8pm.

Charalambides founders Tom & Christina Carter create a vision of iconoclastic music as transformative force. Touching on the outer limits of acid folk, psych rock, and improvisation, their sound remains uniquely personal & consistent. Since 1991, they have released numerous recordings on Siltbreeze, kranky & their own label, Wholly Other. A self-titled double LP is forthcoming on Drawing Room in 2018.

Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 amid a flock of fearlessly exploratory rock bands, when Tom, Christina, and Kyle Silfer put down their beers and picked up their instruments. Eventually Kyle went home to New York, and Christina & Tom assumed the name Charalambides for what eventually turned into a flood of releases, beginning with 1992's Our Bed Is Green on their own Wholly Other label, and continuing with dozens of LPs, CDs, and cassettes on labels such as Siltbreeze, Eclipse, Time-Lag, and kranky. From their 2006 & 2007 kranky releases A Vintage... Read More

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