The Stranger

Seattle sound engineer Scott Colburn has gained notoriety for his studio sorcery with Animal Collective, Mudhoney, and others, but his most interesting work occurs under his Jabon guise. Dressed in a "dark wizard robe and weird harlequin mask" and manipulating a stack of analog keyboards, Jabon subsumes his ego—and his surrounding environs—in chthonic tone poems written in ectoplasmic free verse. It's chilling, immersive stuff that deftly jumps beyond the horror-film audio corn to which much "dark ambient" music stoops. (Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave NW, 784-4880. 9 pm, $6, 21+.) by Dave Segal

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