Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 and became highly esteemed in experimental-music circles for their exploration of the gauzy borderlands between acoustic folk music and psychedelia, as well as the intensely spiritual nature of their music. The duo has released several dozen recordings on CD, CD-R and vinyl across a handful of record labels, most recently Exile last fall on Kranky Records.
The Carters were on a European tour supporting Exile when Tom got sick. His recovery is projected to take months. Christina says she has had intermittent contact with him and (more frequently) his mother since returning to the U.S., and that he is determined to make music again.
"Definitely," she says. "I don't know when that would be able to happen, but absolutely."
She gave a long sigh when asked how she herself is holding up.
"It was really, really hard," she says. "It's always so difficult because I always feel like it's hard on me but not as hard as on him and his family, but it's been really difficult. I was with him for a week in the hospital, and had to come back at a point when it was still unknown what was going to happen.
"It was hard to believe it was happening at times."
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