Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan
rock/experimental
It's thrillingly risky when the frontfolk of the most innovative bands you admire step outside their usual settings. Especially when we're talking about the messianic clutter of Animal Collective and the celestial hum of Mum. David Porter, as "Avey Tare," made Spirit They've Gone, Spirit They've Vanished with Animal Collective freakazoid Panda Bear. That pre-Animal album was as zealously quixotic and haunted as anything they'd come to Collective-ly record, a mix of Bowies, from Space Oddity to Low. Bulgarian folk act Nix Noltes and Iceland's electro-chilled Mum might seem worlds apart. But the two acts and their equally sleepy songs share singer Kria Brekkan — the alias of Kristín Kristín Anna Valtsdóttir — and her lustrous voice. The last time we heard Mum, her calm steady coo sliced through the glitch-pop of The Peel Session like a hot knife though butter. Expect nothing less when she goes it alone or teams up with Tare.
Mon., Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m., $8, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., www.r5productions.com.
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