Maine's backwoodsy cabaret Cerberus Shoal has become an umbrella for its folksy-freaky membership. There's Shoal singer/ukulele player Erin Davidson acting as Dilly Dilly, and Philly's Tim Harbeson — multi-instrumental wunderkind — doing his Fence Kitchen thing. As a trumpeter, pump organist and composer for writer/choreographer Buffy Miller, Harbeson's taken Miller's interdisciplinary ideal into stunning solo performance where, to steal a line from John Mayer, his body is the wonderland — tap dancing while guiding puppets through dances of death. But it's the improvisational-based music of Harbeson's Beading the Rook (North East Indie) that's so strangely, sensually fantastic and new while remaining gently nostalgic. From the full-on brass fantasy of "Twine" to the jittery piano hiccup of "Big His Britches," Rook is like Raymond Scott's entire career as a cartoon composer and analog-synth avatar rolled into one record.