Synoptic Frequencies 16: Marisa Anderson / Dave Stone Ensemble / Blooming

SYNOPTIC FREQUENCIES 16

Doors at 6:30 PM

Music at 7:00 PM

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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’.

In addition to multiple solo releases on Thrill Jockey, past collaborative projects include two albums with drummer Jim White, one with guitarist William Tyler, and contributions to recordings by Matmos, Tara Jane O’Neil, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten, Circuit Des Yeux, Charlie Parr, Myriam Gendron and Big|Brave.

Classically trained, Anderson honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. Her current work is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union.

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is a saxophonist and improvisor based in Saint Louis. He's perhaps best known as the leader of an eponymous trio, which has been a fixture on the jazz scene since 1995, and had a legendary 24-year-long weekly residency at Mangia Italiano. His ensemble project is bigger, looser and freer, bringing together a rotating cast of improv luminaries from around the city.

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, the new duo of Evan Geiger and Kerem Atalay, uses bass and fingerpicked guitar to create circuitous and pastoral compositions that float somewhere between earthy folk music and nebulous ambience.

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