Local dark cabaret band El Radio Fantastique will play a free show at the Western Saloon on Feb. 13—Friday the Thirteenth—to thank West Marin for its support as it prepares to record several new albums. “The newer stuff is dark with a happy ending,” said Giovanni DiMorente, the band’s multi-instrumentalist founder and lead crooner. “But, really, it’s just a bunch of new El Radio stuff that’s all over the map, as usual.” A Point Reyes Station native and born showman, Mr. DiMorente started the band in 2003 with his wife at the time, June; they were living in pre-Katrina New Orleans, where he carved out a musical space for himself by performing unusual, classically influenced, dark and somber, Tom Waits-style tunes. “People would compare it to ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas,’” he said. “It was such an anomaly in New Orleans, and people really dug it.” Since then, El Radio’s sound has become more upbeat, with a greater emphasis on “bumble gum” pop show tunes and a return to replacing various string voices with blaring horns (clarinet, saxophone, trombone, flugelhorn). Mr. DiMorente and his eight-piece band plan to record five small albums of five songs each, and a larger double-vinyl album, all packed with new music. The upcoming records will follow up on the band’s 2012 album “Waking The Dead,” which took its cues from a wide spectrum of genres, from chamber orchestra to Beatles-toned pop rock to circus carnival. The band is looking forward to playing in its West Marin home and hopes that attendees at next Friday’s show will donate if they like what they hear. “It’s strange,” Mr. DiMorente said. “When I started playing out here, I thought people weren’t going to get it. But, surprisingly, you do.” El Radio Fantastique’s Friday the Thirteenth show starts at 9 p.m. sharp at the Old Western Saloon.