Following their excellent Metroland cover story (yeah, hey MLand, fix your broken back issue, please!!!), the folks at B3nson Records have been posting some “Pocket Concerts” on their newly reborn website. So far, five “episodes” have been posted, including familiar characters from the Albany area playing in various configurations. Each video reveals the B3nson folks singing and playing songs in attics, fields, basements and other exotic locales. What a great introduction to a vitally enthusiastic troupe of musicians.

Above is my favorite of the batch, Swamp Baby‘s “Mirror of Lavender”. In this video, Nick Matulis recruits Jen (from We Are Jeneric), Donna (from Scientific Maps and many, many more), and Francis (from Hop Along, Queen Ansleis) to sing otherworldly backup vocals that simply slay me. One has to ask what happened to the crew as the video stops abruptly mid-song. Did the ghosts in the house come to avenge the four souls who were calling to them?

Witness more videos at the B3nson website and the B3nson YouTube group!