Jim White and Marisa Anderson -Swallowtail -Thrill Jockey Records - out May 10, 2024

An enchanting and illuminating celebration of process as joy. Swallowtail lives at the precipice of slowly unraveling revelation and the thrilling unknown



 

Music From A Perfect Day For Caribou

A spare, sober miracle of score, silence, and speech.-The Film Verdict

2022

75th Locarno Film Festival, Concorso Cineasti del presente

67th Cork International Film Festival

2023

29th Slamdance Film Festival

49th Brussels Independent Film Festival, Winner: Best Narrative Feature Film

32nd Florida Film Festival, Special Jury Award for Singularity of Vision

An estranged father and son spend the day ambling around a cemetery, wandering the wilderness, searching for family, and stumbling through disharmony and heartache.




Still, Here emphatically makes the case for Marisa Anderson’s profound artistry,

an alchemical salve, the work of a gifted player with an exceptional ability to convey the complexities of the human experience through composition.






sparse, dreamy, beautiful…

like fragments discovered on old stones that can be rendered into living music again…



Marisa Anderson and William Tyler mold their instruments into breathtaking panoramas of blight and bliss.

a work of remarkable breadth, brimming with resplendent odes of solace.



The Quickening is an improvised work guided by emotional intuition.

The elegance of Jim White and Marisa Anderson’s highly attuned collaboration lays in each player’s ability to empathically spin their collective experience into music of potent and boundless beauty.

 

a bit of lazy California winter

crossing paths with a trusted friend, playing guitars and singing old songs. 

They turn both songs into intimate, hushed folk songs, and both covers are true reinventions and truly worth hearing. -Brooklyn Vegan

 

On Cloud Corner, Anderson’s music is boundless.

an album of remarkably intimate beauty, tranquility in times of turmoil.

one of the most beautiful and transfixing solo guitar recordings in years- Pitchfork