Meridians + Tom Carter (Charlambides) + Mike Wexler

Sunday, March 15
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8:30pm
reservations are recommended

San Francisco-based Meridians is Julie Napolin (ex-Citay) and Trevor Healy (Paper Legs). Their open-form, lyric ballads are alternately driving and hypnotic, exploring the patterns, overtones, and consonances created by voice and two guitars. There are echoes of British folk, minimalism and the more cinematic strains of krautrock as the two combine highly refined electric and 12-string guitar melodies over pulsing loops of flute, violin, found objects and oscillators. The duo recently recorded an EP, produced by Tim Green of the Fucking Champs.

Tom Carter (Kranky/Important Records) is a guitar player best known for his work with acclaimed psych-drone iconoclasts Charalambides. Since 2000, he has become increasingly active as a solo artist, concentrating on looped guitar drones of immensely stacked beauty, with heaps of psychedelic melodic content. As a collaborator, he has performed with improvising musicians as diverse as Thurston Moore, Jandek, Tetuzi Akiyama, Matt Valentine, and many others, as well as being a key member in groups like Badgerlore (with Ben Chasny of 6 Organs of Admittance).

According to Time Out, Mike Wexler (Amish Records) "is a solo singer-songwriter with the most gorgeously sandy-textured voice we've heard in ages." A Brooklyn based psych-folk superhero with a cache of soft yet penetrating melodies, he creates guitar-based and lyrical arrangements drawing largely from eerie side of British folk. His songs sound startlingly new and yet like a perfect lost record.