The late French author Marguerite Duras once answered an interviewer's question about women and home by saying that men move through spaces where women inhabit them. A Table Forgotten, the new EP by Faun Fables (Dawn McCarthy and chief collaborator Nils Frykdahl), would seem to underscore that statement. It's the first of a projected series of releases documenting McCarthy's ruminations about a woman's experience of the realm of home. Together, A Table Forgotten's four songs are just over 17 minutes in length, and take the kitchen as their room of rumination and consideration. On the surface, this seems to be a 180-degree turn from Faun Fables' last offering, the mighty, weird, and eerie The Transit Rider, the McCarthy-written soundtrack for a theater piece of the same name that explored rootlessness, exploration, displacement, and yes, homelessness. But using surfaces to describe the aesthetic and folk-laden mystical and mythical worlds McCarthy inhabits and executes on her records is errant at best. If anything, A Table Forgotten is a logical next step. Songs about home, and in particular the kitchen, are less disorienting, but no less strange, though the mood is more celebratory than speculative. The music here is mostly acoustic, though Frykdahl uses an electric guitar from time to time, and a theremin -- courtesy of violinist Meredith Yayanos -- makes an appearance, as do harmonium, nylon-string guitars, hand percussion, bass, and flute. The brief set was co-produced by Fables and Nurse with Wound collaborator Matt Waldron -- who also contributes percussion and sounds to the mix. Also in the fold for this outing is Björk/Bonnie Prince Billy aide de camp Valgeir Sigurðsson, who co-wrote the haunting, contemplative Winter Sleep that closes the disc.

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