Wendy Eisenberg

pic by Ellery Berenger

 

Based in NYC, Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade as a fixture of independent music and an artist of inspired multiplicity with art-rock, jazz, free improv and eloquent folk. As a virtuoso guitarist, singer-songwriter and improviser, she uses to explore multiple approaches to diferent genres and techniques. She could interpret experimental pieces from Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff as well make reference to Derek Bailey, Arto Lindsay,  João Gilberto and John Zorn... an ecclectic repertoire.

“I was coming from an Arto Lindsay place and also a João Gilberto and Juana Molina world, where the songcraft is super important but there’s also humor and exploration...  I spent a large part of my life really interested in guitar guitar stuff, like Brouwer, Ted Dunbar’s work, Ted Greene’s work … really just studying from these masters...   Exploring the guitar now is a little more intuitive and has to do with being receptive to how long a decay is, for example. Sometimes I’ll just pick up a guitar and play an open A string and see how long it takes for it to die down and see if it catches one of the reflections of one of the walls in my room, and play to the space." 

 

Wendy Eisenberg in duo with Shane Parrish (both of them are parts of the amazing Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet) in this "Nervous systems" opus

 

& with David Grubbs, founder of the band Gastr del Sol, and Kramer for the trio Squanderers (Wendy's guitar on the right side and David's one on the left side): "Skantiago"

 

and a fluid solo guitar improvisation 

 

 

& as folk songwriter, her last album 

Here a long interview for Premierguitar. 

And don't miss a long review in the april 2026 issue of The Wire

 

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