Windy and Carls sleepy, sustained drone stretches all the way back to 1993, when spouses and record-store owners Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren began recording gorgeous, molasses-paced soundscapes. With just bass, guitar, the odd synth, Webers occasional singing, and a pile of disorienting pedals, Windy and Carls records were the quietest, most serene entries in Michigans so-called space rock scene of the 90s, and they remain influential. Following a five-year hiatus at the start of this decade, the duo re-emerged with a string of polished but no less syrupy releases on the venerable Kranky Records and their own Blue Flea imprint, initiating a new generation. Even when summoning dense rainfall and vast tundra, theres always been something undeniably romantic about their seemingly endless work. With White Rainbow, This Blinding Light. Photo courtesy Doug Coombe.
Sat., May 23, 10 p.m., 2009
