Following their acclaimed 2020 debut The Quickening, renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson announce elemental new album Swallowtail.
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Expanding on both artists' impressive body of work, both as two of the most in-demand collaborators in contemporary music, and their expansive solo endeavours, Swallowtail finds White and Anderson completely immersed in the moment, each attuned to the other fluidly moving as wind and water.
Alongside the album announcement, White and Anderson share new single "Bitterroot Valley Suite I: Water." The first of three movements in the longer-form suite, the track flows with the steady momentum of a rolling river. The duo's delicate interlocking instrumentation exists in a constant state of change and transformation, Anderson's fluid guitar lines plumbing the depths or cresting the surface as sparkling constellations of reflected sunlight, while White's rumbling polyrhythms push ever onwards, carving the shape of the landscape as they twist and turn.
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Jim White and Marisa Anderson will be touring North America this spring around the release of Swallowtail, including a string of co-headline dates with fellow folk innovator Myriam Gendron. Full list of dates below.
May 3 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue #
May 4 - Fargo, ND - The Hall at Fargo Brewing #
May 9 - Philadelphia, PA - Solar Myth
May 11 - Yellow Springs, OH - The Foundry Theater
May 12 - Detroit, MI - Trinosophes
May 13 - Chicago, IL - Constellation
May 16 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge ^
May 17 - Keene, NH - Thing in the Spring ^
May 18 - Montreal, QC - Lion D’or ^
May 20 - Portland, OR - Holocene ^
May 22 - Seattle, WA - Rabbit Box ^
May 23 - Vancouver, BC - Coastal Jazz @ St James Hall ^
May 24 - San Diego, CA - The Loft ^
May 25 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon ^
May 26 - Mill Valley, CA - Sweetwater Music Hall ^
Jun. 4 - Kingston NY - Tubby's *
Jun. 9 - Durham, NC - The Pinhook *
Jun. 11 - Athens, GA - Flicker Theater *
Jun. 15 - Nashville, TN - The Blue Room *
Jun. 23 - Paonia CO - Bross Hotel *
* Marisa Anderson solo
# Marisa Anderson solo w/ Charlie Parr
^ co-headline w/ Myriam Gendron