Wendy Eisenberg – Wendy Eisenberg

Description

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity. As a singer-songwriter, improviser,and virtuoso guitarist, the coordinates of their artistry are ever-shifting, from art-rock to jazz to blistering free improv and eloquent folk. On Wendy Eisenberg, the artist creates their own paradigm with a tight-knit circle of longtimefriendsandcollaboratorsincluding bassist TrevorDunn, drummer Ryan Sawyer, and co-producer Mari Rubio (more eaze), who handled pedal steel, synth, and string arrangementsrecording often at Eisenbergs home and bringing a gorgeous ensemble texture to each note. I was finally around people who accepted me, Eisenberg says. Many of the songs on this record were written in that new feeling. I wanted it to be incredibly comforting as it describes some massive changes in self-under- standing and self-regard. Its about relief. The songs began to take root in 2020 when Eisenberg moved from Western Massachusettswhere theyd lived for a few years after attending Bostons New England Conservatoryand relocated to Brooklyn. Longing for the pastoral feel of their former home, Eisenberg gravitated towards the warm sounds of country and folk. The songs are genuinely folk songs, Eisenberg says of their record. The production is less about seeing what the guitar might be capable of and more accepting the inherent strangeness of the languages it has spoken for the last century and a half.