I don’t think that I’ll ever get tired of listening to or writing about the music of Chris Schlarb. Since I first interviewed him a year and some change back, he’s released a solo disc, a new album with I Heart Lung which includes countless guest appearances in addition to running his label, Sounds Are Active. The tag line for his label’s website is “Making Beautiful Noise Since 1999.”

And that’s a pretty accurate description.

While his solo work differs from that of I Heart Lung, these efforts seem to include a wide and varied guitar voicing. There isn’t really anything consistent about his music – apart from the high quality of it – the songs swing through different phases often encompassing countless genres and ideas within a single track. Frequently though, those tracks push the ten minute mark.

And that’s part of the reason why Schlarb’s work is difficult to get through. It can at times recall any work that Thurston Moore has done in a duo setting with a drummer. But to reduce Schlarb to that seems unbefitting for his talent and probably upsets his guitar.

If there were some alternate version of the phrase/idea/song “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” it still couldn’t reign in the sounds and feelings that Schlarb coaxes from his instrument.

And now on Brooklyn Vegan, there are a couple of snippets off Schlarb’s latest solo disc, Twilight and Ghost Stories. He apparently has planned an evening in NYC to perform the entirety of that disc solely with local players that he’s assembled which include some folks that have worked with Phillip Glass as well as the Vanishing Voice.

It seems surprising that Schlarb has decided to work more with his solo disc since Interoceans from I Heart Lung was released more recently. But, in the last year, Schlarb has seen his stock rise dramatically and it’s really pretty understandable as to why he would take advantage of the situation.

The one down side is that not everyone in every part of the country is going to have a chance to witness what will surely be an incredible performance.