More people should be listening to Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine

Most of the music I write about ranges from well known to iconic. I am not one of these people who takes pleasure in knowing about obscurities that other people don’t. However, I do have one intense fandom for a couple of guys who you are likely not to have heard of, Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine. I took the family to see them recently in a converted church in Kingston, NY, and the music sounded like it could have come from any time in the last five thousand years, or the next five thousand. My son the Ursula Le Guin fan thinks they sound like a pair of bards from one of the more remote islands in Earthsea. I leave their shows with my senses fully activated in a way that rarely happens at my age. When I was talking to Peter after the Kingston show, he mentioned that he and Tim have been playing music together for forty years. You can tell! I first heard Tim and Peter in 1995 as members of Cordelia’s Dad, a band that is difficult to describe. Sometimes they played bare, minimal acoustic…