A Lie Of The Mind

While not her formal solo debut, Carla Torgerson’s collaboration with Mark Nichols, the Seattle-area musician who had done arrangements for various Walkabouts efforts in the 1990s, was her first album not done in collaboration with Chris Eckman, reflecting their separation beforehand. Created as a score for Sam Shepard’s play of the same title, the duo’s work here is often spare and atmospheric though with the occasional burst of feedback, strings and rhythm, Nichols’s voice providing a different, reedier resonance in contrast to Eckman’s huskier rasp.