Faun Fables is an odd, uncategorizable, morphing entity that creates profoundly haunting excursions into arcane dreams within dreams. Beautifully forthright singer Dawn McCarthy partners with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum singer/multi-instrumentalist Nils Frykdahl to conjure a heavily contrapuntal acoustical realm that seems rooted in English plainsong and such folk-art offspring as the Incredible String Band. In October, the duo brought out their first long-player in four years, Light of a Vaster Dark, a good-humored and luminously odd meditation on the seasons of life whose sound/place is dusty and obscure, yet alluringly, naggingly familiar. McCarthy has invented another dimension of grimly gripping tall tales whose cinema vérité-enhanced production—Frykdahl’s guitars and percussion are intricately laced with violins, bass clarinets, shakuhachi flutes, and ghostly harmonicas—adds immensely to the moody mystery. (All ages; Johanna Chase opens.) JOHN PAYNE

Mon., Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m., 2010