Carla Kihlstedt's Necessary Monsters Live

Taped live as part of the third night of the 2021 Relevant Tones
Festival, this is the album release party for Carla Kihlstedt and
Rafael Oses' stunning collaborative project Necessary
Monsters. 


Necessary Monsters is a collaboration between
composer/musician Carla  Kihlstedt and poet Rafael Osés. It
is a contemporary song cycle based on  Argentine writer
Jorge Luis Borges’ Book of Imaginary Beings — a
 collection of fantastical creatures culled from literary
and  mythological traditions around the world.


Seth Boustead talks with Carla, Rafael and author Stephen Asma.