Gruff Rhys was, once upon a time in my youth, known as one of the fine minds behind ’90s Welsh rock act Super Furry Animals. He has since gone on to move his muse into different neighborhoods, becoming a writer, filmmaker, composer and artistic odd-man, following a warm line of connections between his homeland and our own vast and bizarre country. His concept album, American Interior, about the 18th century Welsh explorer John Evans, is on the setlist tonight at the Miniplex at 7 p.m., where he will be joined by guitar-painter Chris Forsyth for a show that is certain to create vast landscapes from the transitory anti-matter of music in a fashion that would create envy among alchemists and architects ($20, $15 advance).
This article appears in Portrait of a Prairie.