Crystal Thicket

Guitarist Christina Carter, reigning queen of new/weird/psych/free-folk heavies Charalambides and Scorces, has been making emotionally intense, spiritually inclined music since the early '90s. With her bandmates, performing solo, and in collaboration with artists like The Yellow Swans, guitarist Loren Mazzacane-Connors and eccentric folkies Black Forest/Black Sea, Carter has recorded dozens of albums over the years for ahead-of-the-curve, avant-friendly labels such as Siltbreeze, Eclipse, Kranky, Time Lag, Ecstatic Yod, Freedom From, Very Friendly, Opax, and Charalambides' own home-grown label, Wholly Other.

Crystal Thicket is Carter’s first release with Andrew MacGregor under the Bastard Wing moniker. The two have worked together previously, collaborating on MacGregor’s Gown project and splitting a release with Free Porcupine Society label-mates My Cat Is An Alien.