Jim White and Marisa Anderson have announced UK and Ireland tour dates for September 2024, in support of their expansive new duo album “Swallowtail”. The collaboration between renowned drummer White and acclaimed guitarist Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. White and Anderson are each very in-demand as collaborators in no small part because of their mastery, versatility and highly expressive playing. Each of the duo has amassed an impressive body of work, and remain at the vanguard of their practices due to an insatiable curiosity and delight in exploration of new avenues of expression.
Their 2020 debut, “The Quickening”, exemplified that daring spirit as an exercise in trust: two musicians who had never performed together before committing those first moments in time to record. The follow-up, “Swallowtail”, released in May 2024 showed a deepening of that trust, with White and Anderson completely immersed in the moment, each attuned to the other.
“Swallowtail” was recorded in the Australian coastal town of Point Lonsdale, Victoria with engineer Nick Huggins (Resting Bell Studio). “It was a big change of vibe and scenery,” says Anderson, “to be out of the city and on the coast with no distraction and to be working with an engineer (and avid surfer) who is attuned to the cycles of tides and sunrises and sunsets and ocean rhythms. I think all of that got into the music as we were making it.”
Reflecting the coastal setting, the music ebbs and flow, in an undulating constant motion which closely resembles their adaptive live performances. “When we play live we don’t stop, there are no breaks in between ‘songs’,” notes Anderson, “we segue naturally between movements and ideas. Sometimes we are together, and sometimes we are apart, sometimes the segues become the pieces.”
You can watch the video for ‘Aerie’ directed by filmmaker Jem Cohen below.
The tour dates are shown here; tickets can be obtained via the venues.
Sep. 5 – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
Sep. 6 – Castletownbere, IE – Sarah Walker Gallery
Sep. 7 – Shrewsbury, UK – St Mary The Virgin
Sep. 8 – Barrow-in-Furness, UK – Full of Noises Festival
Sep. 9 – London, UK – Cafe Oto
Sep. 20 – Clonakilty, IE – Clonakilty International Guitar Festival
Sep. 21 – Dundalk, IE – Culture Club
