"Wendy Eisenberg has been occupied with a disorienting schedule of releases, collaborations, tours, lectures, and publications. The most recent of these is a live record with David Grubbs and Bonner Kramer as the supergroup Squanderers, but in the last year alone, Eisenberg has played in the legendary Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, released a performance of compositions by Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff, and acted as supporting musician for Caroline Davis, claire rousay, More Eaze, and others. Before that, they were playing with John Zorn—including his infamous game piece Cobra “so many, many times”—Shane Parish, Jessica Pavone, Luke Stewart, Strictly Missionary, and their own rock bands, Editrix and Birthing Hips...Perhaps this is why Eisenberg is so interested in other avant-garde artists who actively dismantle musical parameters, like Feldman and Wolff."...
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"Wendy Eisenberg has been occupied with a disorienting schedule of releases, collaborations, tours, lectures, and publications. The most recent of these is a live record with David Grubbs and Bonner Kramer as the supergroup Squanderers, but in the last year alone, Eisenberg has played in the legendary Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, released a performance of compositions by Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff, and acted as supporting musician for Caroline Davis, claire rousay, More Eaze, and others. Before that, they were playing with John Zorn—including his infamous game piece Cobra “so many, many times”—Shane Parish, Jessica Pavone, Luke Stewart, Strictly Missionary, and their own rock bands, Editrix and Birthing Hips...Perhaps this is why Eisenberg is so interested in other avant-garde artists who actively dismantle musical parameters, like Feldman and Wolff."
— Rômulo Moraes, Brooklyn Rail
"Over the course of his forty-plus years career in music, David Grubbs stands out as sort of an unlikely journeyman. His work spans the sweaty post-hardcore of early band Squirrel Bait, the radical experiments of his highly influential group Gastr Del Sol, and the deconstructed singer-songwriter music of his early solo work. Yet, his forward-thinking approach seems less rooted in ambition or polymathic desire, and is more a condition of a genuine sense of curiosity that often manifests in very subtly oft-kilter music."
— Levi Dayan, The Quietus
"Best known as the in-house producer and proprietor of the Shimmy-Disc label, Kramer also has an extensive résumé as a musician, often in bands or with collaborators, but occasionally solo as well. His music tends to be atmospheric with a touch of the abstract, often using found sounds to add texture and detail to his recordings, and his themes are often deeply personal, dealing with issues in his life and his own creative fascinations, though not without a sense of humor. "
— Mark Deming, AllMusic
Elysium Furnace Works' epic 2025 season continues with a truly original indie supergroup: Squanderers. Self-described as a "glowingly new—2024 vintage" trio, Squanderers features guitarists Wendy Eisenberg (Allison Miller, John Zorn) and David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol, Bastro, Squirrel Bait) alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary Shimmy-Disc Records label founder and producer Kramer (Shockabilly, Bongwater, New York Gong, The Fugs, Zorn), performing music of stimulating breadth and haunting delicacy.
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