Crushing Death & Grief

WENDY EISENBERG
The multi-faceted Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as an increasingly key fixture in a range of niches of the experimental music sphere, if you’ll excuse the geometric implausibility. They’ve really risen to prominence as an awe-inspiring guitarist, blowing minds with shred-pop trio Editrix, shimmering improv troupe Squanderers (with David Grubbs and Kramer, no less), and as part of joyfully bewildering Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet. For their most recent work, an eponymous solo album, Eisenberg is occupying a more comtemplative and pastoral space, seeking a warm clarity in more timeless and understated virtuosity ways by exploring the themes and textures of country and folk. These new explorations into more self-reflective and sincerely nostalgic headspaces are totally compelling, welcoming, and enveloping. As an artist of ridiculous range, whilst this gentleness may be to the fore in Cambridge, don’t be surprised if we experience wild excursions into strange and unfathomable zones…
https://wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/

ALULA DOWN
Herefordshire iconoclasts Alula Down are a duo of Kate Gathercole & Mark Waters. Their music grew from relationship and explores connection – considering the magical and ordinary in everyday becoming-with / being-here. Drawing from varied musical roots, they make use of improvisation, collage, drone, field recording, sparsity – silence – fragility, noise, dialogue and textured soundscape. They often work with folk song, using traditional and vernacular songs to illuminate dispossession and inequality, and exploring divisions between self and other that have been mediated through the binaries of institutionalised colonialism. Members of other groups including psych-folk band Sproatly Smith, improv noise crew rushes/esp, and a cappella outfit the Bushel Bag Carollers, they are also part of The Weirdshire Society, folk, left-field and experimental live music to a neglected corner of the West Midlands.
www.aluladown.uk