Marisa Anderson + Padang Food Tigers

MARISA ANDERSON channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her playing is fluid, emotional, and masterful, featuring compositions and improvisations that re-imagine the landscape of American music. The New Yorker calls Anderson ‘one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’, and NPR refers to her as among ‘this era’s most powerful players’. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone, NPR, The New York Times, Pitchfork, the BBC and The Wire. Festival appearances include Big Ears, Pitchfork Midwinter, Le Guess Who and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

In addition to her solo work, Anderson is sought after as a collaborator and composer. Swallowtail, her second record in duo with drummer Jim White was released May 2024 on Thrill Jockey Records. 2024 also saw the release of the feature film score ‘ A Perfect Day For Caribou’, as well as appearances on records by Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave. In addition to multiple solo releases, past projects include 2021’s Lost Futures with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux. Anderson’s forthcoming album, ‘The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music’ (out May 22 on Thrill Jockey), is a collection of songs culled from the private record collection of the late Harry Smith. Assembled by Anderson after a chance encounter led to an opportunity to study and explore this treasure trove of music, the Anthology focuses on music from places that the United States has been in conflict with since 1970: Southeast Asia, the USSR and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world.

https://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/

PADANG FOOD TIGERS – aka London duo Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady – weave enchanting ambient-folk amalgams full of dreamlike reveries and poignantly real memories. Their emotive instrumental music stems from a succession of playful improvisational back-and-forths, while imbuing more traditionally minded tendencies with a spectral gauze and spontaneous sense of wonder, marked by traces of Ry Cooder, Virginia Astley, SUSS, Scott Tuma, Supreme Dicks and Bruce Langhorne’s soundtrack to The Hired Hand. Padang Food Tigers releases can be found on Northern Spy, Scissor Tail Editions, Blue Hole Recordings, Bedroom Suck Records and Shhpuma, among other noble imprints.

https://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/