Opossum Sun Trail plays the Miniplex at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2. Credit: Photo courtesy of the artists
Every so often, the conditions of our homeland create the perfect environment for an unusually excellent band to form and grow into a thing so lovely and special that its very nature prevents it from staying rooted to the soil from whose fecundity it sprang. Like a tumbleweed or a kaleidoscope of dandelion seeds, it takes to the winds and spreads its musical issue out into the larger world. Sometimes, though, those bands return to spawn for a night or two, and happily, one of my favorite of such acts is doing just such a thing tonight at the Miniplex at 8 p.m.Opossum Sun Trail, whom you might recall most recently when I gave their last release a glowing review in these pages, are back in town, and if you want to hear psyche-western vistas from the outer Cerebellum Range, you must come through. Also playing is a new project called Myrtle Mountain, featuring members of Black Plate, September Rain and that rascally noise scamp Chini. There will also be a set by Berkeley’s futuristic synth-folk band Katsy Pline. Just $10 is a steal for this one, and I’d suggest getting in by 9 p.m. to secure a spot.
