[Oct 9, 2015] The G-Man presents...Marisa Anderson (Cork) (1 Viewer)

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Marisa Anderson
Walking across America at 19 years old just might be one of the reasons why Marisa Anderson's music is so fluid with folk, blues and country, en-capturing this restless soul. A fluid, emotional and dexterous guitar style inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, Appalachian mountain music, vintage country & western, gospel, noise and rhythm gives Marisa an edge all of her own. Three albums and a host of limited releases in, her acoustic and electric guitar playing is compelling: she effortlessly veers from delicate to distorted, adrift to serene, tight-woven to unbound. Deep within the heart of her music lie melodies and rhythms that she plays around with with such a tactile sense that things are always fresh, warm and above all tender.

Marisa's recent recordings on labels like Mississippi Records and Grapefruit are testament to her range, while her live shows have gotten more and more powerful, pulling off all kind of twists, improvisations and lyrical sweeps within her own compositions and the traditionals she adores drawing upon. With a varied show full of folk tales and subtle cross-temporal associations, she can make hairs bristle and feet stomp.
Before landing in Portland, USA in the late nineties, Anderson dropped out of college at age nineteen to walk across the United States and didn’t stop travelling for fifteen years. Her music is a direct result of this peripatetic existence, reflecting years of living in cars, tents and buses, traveling to Mexico with a circus, walking, hitchhiking and always playing guitar. Recently, Anderson’s music has been much in demand as a touring act, and has seen her play with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and on a Mississippi Records tour. Her writings on music and activism have appeared in Bitch Magazine, Leaf Litter, and in the book Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls.

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What others say:
“Anderson, who's based in Portland, Oregon, has paid her dues and done her research: she played in country, circus, and jazz bands before applying her acumen to a series of solo instrumental records for acoustic and electric guitar and lap steel. On her latest LP, Traditional and Public Domain Songs (Grapefruit), her performances of chestnuts such as "Just a Closer Walk With Thee" and "Farther Along" are structurally sound and patiently paced, allowing the audience to soak in her waves of Pops Staples-style reverb and be hypnotized by her Elizabeth Cotton-inspired fingerpicking.”
Bill Meyer/Chicago Reader
“THREE THINGS will happen when you listen to Marisa Anderson’s Mercury: you’ll instantly get used to it, you’ll never get tired of it, and you’ll be flooded by your own personal filmstrip of dusty roads, rusty trains, craggy mountains, and weathered faces”
Portland Mercury

“Anderson unfolds as a master of stylistic swivels, pushing from steady-handed blues staggers to open-road pontifications, from understated ragas to psychedelic meditations”
Pitchfork

For more info visit:
www.marisaandersonmusic.com // marisaanderson.bandcamp.com // www.facebook.com/Marisa-Anderson-music
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- Marisa Anderson plays Triskel Project Space Friday 9th October.

- Entry is €10 with tickets available from http://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-g-man-presentsmarisa-anderson-mississippi-records-tickets-18431853169
 

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