Jeffrey Silverstein, Nighttime

Gold-Diggers presents a two-act bill pairing Los Angeles-based Nighttime with Portland guitarist and songwriter Jeffrey Silverstein. The listing does not specify a running order or either act’s live formation, but it features Silverstein’s “All Hands Raised.” Nighttime brings its self-described “cosmic American folk” to the evening, alongside Silverstein’s warm, spacious work at the intersection of cosmic country, psychedelic folk and ambient Americana. His approach blends meditative guitar work, pedal steel and laid-back grooves.

Nighttime describes its releases with the tags “folk avant-americana cosmic lo-fi psych folk.” Its early recordings, according to the group’s press material, “could be mistaken for choral hymnals from the archive.” The 2023 album Keeper is the Heart is described there as “a lost psychedelic gem of the 1960s,” with references to Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tenega, and as having been lauded by Bandcamp as Best New Music. Silverstein is based in Portland and is known here as a guitarist and songwriter whose sound leaves room for atmospheric detail and unhurried rhythmic movement.