*Chris Schlarb’s Psychic Temple II (Asthmatic Kitty) with the Catahoula Curse* * * *Friday, October 18 at 8:30pm* *High Mayhem Emerging Arts studio, 2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe NM* * *ALL AGES, $10 donation at the door, no one turned away *Chris Schlarb* is a musician, composer and producer based in Long Beach, California. His newest album, Psychic Temple II, is a celebration of the auteur as cult leader and includes surprising reinventions of work by Frank Zappa, Brian Wilson, Joe Jackson. The album expands his trademark atmospherics into the realm of pop songcraft. Spin Magazine said the album is “beautiful and almost dangerously relaxed,” while National Public Radio said, “In its wordless pastoral journey, Psychic Temple is boundary-less.” His debut solo album, Twilight & Ghost Stories, was critically hailed as both, “40 minutes of avant-garde bliss” by the New York Observer and as “a monumental achievement” by FFWD Weekly. His following release, Interoceans, with experimental jazz duo I Heart Lung, was chosen by NPR as one of the Top 5 Jazz albums of the year in 2008. More details here: http://highmayhem.org/event-details/chris-schlarbs-psychic-temple-ii-asthmat... “Schlarb can write a jazz tune with the best of them, but on an album that ostensibly crosses boundaries separating jazz, chamber and indie music, his restless creativity has no choice but to continuously seek new worlds.” – Lars Gotrich, National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/2013/07/07/199049872/first-listen-chris-schlarb-psychic-t... http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-psychic-temple-chr... http://pitchfork.com/news/50644-listen-sufjan-stevens-sings-on-chris-schlarb... Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/558777817503229/ [image: PsychicTemplePress01-2] *Catahoula Curse* is a guitar/vocal/drums duo that plays Southern Gothic Amertronica. The band features Alex Neville (The brilliant Dullards & The Proxemics) on vocals, guitar and electronics -AND Milton Villarrubia, III (The brilliant Dullards & iNK oN pAP * * *Stay tuned for info on High Mayhem’s Fall Series - Nov.2, 9, 16, 23!!!* Confirmed so far: Aunt Cackle and the Coleslaw King, the Grooves of Baal, the brilliant Dullards, We Drew Lightning, Alchemical Burn, Angelo Harmsworth, Out of Context Electric Guitar Choir, Marissa Anderson, iNK oN pAPER, Johnny Bell, Al Faaet, Starlit Mire, and more! http://www.highmayhem.org http://www.facebook.com/highmayhem https://soundcloud.com/highmayhem