Squanderers If a Body Meet a Body

Release date:
January 17, 2025
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Squanderers are the glowingly new-2024 vintage-trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer. The group sprung into action as the duo of Kramer and Grubbs with the single "Congress of Poodles" b/w "Lendrick Muir Bible Study Weekend," part of Kramer's 2023 Shimmy-Disc box set Rings of Saturn. Squanderers now enter the arena of live performance with the addition of bona-fide guitar slayer Eisenberg, a dream of a foil to Grubbs's grubbslike guitarisms, setting the scene for Kramer to follow his musical divining rod. Divining urges not dirges. In Grubbs's book-length poem, The Voice in the Headphones, "Squanderer" is the nickname that most deeply troubles of the book's unnamed protagonist: "Hang your head, Squanderer. You'll never darken the doorway of Studio A." Will this trio of inveterate Squanderers redeem themselves?

Tracklist:
  • 1. Theme for Squanderers
  • 2. Theme for Contrails
  • 3. Theme for Silent Cowboys
  • 4. Theme for Viewers at Home
  • 5. Theme for Pattern Recognition
  • 6. Theme for a Quiet Car
  • 7. Theme for Squanderers (Reprise)