Space psychedelia descended on the Rotunda in Philadelphia last night.  In the latest concert in the Event Horizonseries, it was a three band show with PYXL8R, Groupthink and headlined by Tim Motzer & Bernhard Wöstheinrich.

Tim Motzer is sonic experimentalist who you’ll find attending most of the outside music shows in Philadelphia from free jazz to Radiohead.  He’s recorded with a host of new music luminaries including David Sylvian, King Britt, Can’s Jaki Leibezeit and his own electro-lounge group, NuCultures.

Bernhard Wöstheinrich has been on the German avant-space music scene since the late 1980s, playing with Centrozoon, Markus Reuter and Ian Boddy.  His album as The Redundant Rocker, Escape, is an oblique take on techno-pop.

On the stage of the Rotunda, Motzer and Wöstheinrich created one long, circuitous performance.  Wöstheinrich sat on the right hand side of the stage behind a…