Today, Kramer is adding a brand new LP to his acclaimed Shimmy-Disc catalogue. If a Body Meet a Body is the debut album from SQUANDERERS.
SQUANDERERS are the glowingly new—2024 vintage—trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer. Having begun SQUANDERERS as a duo in 2023 for Kramer’s “Rings of Saturn” box set, Grubbs & Kramer now enter the arena of live performance with the addition of bona-fide guitar slayer Eisenberg, a dream of a foil to Grubbs’s grubbslike guitarisms, setting the scene for Kramer’s bass to follow his musical divining rod.
The debut collaboration by three unique composers/musicians, If a Body Meet a Body, explores the instantaneous relations between sound, gesture and space. All pieces are the results of spontaneous composition, the group playing together live and wild, in a New York studio. One afternoon of dream torched thoughts colliding, proving that hands on strings open lines of direct commune with the vastness of a collective unknown.
The track “Theme for Viewers At Home” is being highlighted for the album’s release, alongside a piece of ambient-cinema by Kramer.
Given the almost absurd collaborative skillsets of these three supremely versatile SQUANDERERS, who knew which directions the group might have taken for their first album, much less what’s yet to come? SQUANDERERS’ music pivots around improvisation, and shockingly little was decided in advance of their convening; Kramer, Wendy, and David came to the group’s assembling with the confidence of what would be would be, que sera sera. You couldn’t divine these results.
If a Body Meet a Body is out today via Shimmy-Disc.
If a Body Meet a Body – TRACK LISTING:
Side One:
Theme for Squanderers
Theme for Contrails
Theme for Silent Cowboys
Theme for Viewers at Home
Side Two:
Theme for Pattern Recognition
Theme for Quiet Car
Theme for Squanderers (Reprise)
