Ah, fall! What better time to reclaim our frozen lethargy, reconnect with those depressing 5 p.m. sunsets, track down our parkas and ski leggings and constantly misplaced woolen hats and even more constantly misplaced gloves, and curl up in a fetal position in inconsolable mourning for the lost promise of summer while awaiting, for what feels like a futile eternity, the return of warmth and the sun.
OK, not too much fun. So here's a better idea -- let's say we take the L train out to Brooklyn instead, swing by the Union Pool and feast our ears upon the musical wonderments wrought by beloved Caulfield Sister Kristin Mueller.
That's right -- she's playing at 8 p.m. tonight in a release show for her new album "Deserts & Long Trails," a long-awaited follow-up to her splendid, haunting 2006 offering "Port of Call." She'll be there with compatriots C.Gibbs and Common Prayer (a\k\a Jay Russo), who've also got new solo stuff out. So it's a triple celebration, and who can resist that?
Speaking of the inestimable Ms. Mueller, she's awash in more musical projects than I've got space to name here -- not just her classic work for Cynthia Hopkins (which I finally got to witness first-hand earlier this year in "This Clement World"; her drumming, even behind gauzy black curtains, has an overpowering presence in person that's hard to appreciate even from the recordings) and Lucinda Black Bear, but also her audio engineering for the likes of WQXR, her musical composition for the gem-like truck-stop-runaway film "What Alice Found," her Saudi Arabian travels with Mary McBride's band and her performances on musical felts crafted by Tel Aviv-raised artist Naama Tsabar. Her own website has much, much more.
