Lazyhorse

For TOPOS, prolific composer-visual artist Raven Chacon turns away from the gravitas of the art world and returns to one of music’s most immediate, elemental forms: the band. Though well-versed in the terrain—having played in metal and thrash groups like Tenderizor, Kilt, and White People Killed Them—Chacon now channels the raw energy and aggression of these genres into an exploratory, almost meditative excavation of American musical lineages: country, folk, and their haunted echoes.

At the heart of this new work lies the cultural artifact of the spaghetti western—a genre of mid-20th–century films shot cheaply in Italy and Spain that infused …