Windy + Carl

Since the early '90s, Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren have been conducting musical experiments in their Dearborn, Michigan home studio that sound something like the members of a celestial orchestra quietly and slowly tuning their instruments. Or perhaps like the sound you hear while floating in an isolation tank. Well, their compositions evoke a vast number of images and ideas, but all pertain to the other side of consciousness, the faraway places the mind can take you. Their droning, gentle pieces wash over you like cool water that insulates you from the outside world. Minimalism is the order of the day -- this is a duo, after all -- as Windy and Carl create their vast, spacious, otherworldly arias with but a guitar, a bass, a bit of keyboard, and a ton of dreamy effects. Occasionally Windy sings, an ethereal murmur of a voice that transforms the droning ambience into something resembling a heavenly lullaby. Worshippers at the altar of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless are exhorted to enter this duo's temple.