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Marisa Anderson's music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections of artistry and expression with form and tradition. A singular guitarist and voracious musical collaborator, Anderson crafts pieces bursting with equal parts reverence and curiosity, contouring familiar shapes into work that is wholly her own.
The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music is a collection of nearly one thousand songs culled from the private record collection of the late Harry Smith. Assembled by Anderson after a chance encounter led to an opportunity to study and explore this treasure trove of music, the Anthology focuses on music from places that the United States has been in conflict with since 1970: Southeast Asia, the USSR and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world. In Volume 1 Anderson presents her own deeply personal iterations of nine songs from the Anthology. Composed, transcribed and arranged through a process of trial and error, deep listening and research, Anderson charts a musical course from Afghanistan to Vietnam via Yemen, Cambodia and Turkmenistan.
Camellia Boutros and Kumi Maxson
Camellia Boutros and Kumi Maxson are longtime musical collaborators and friends who form two-thirds of the improvisatory experimental trio Tlet Mori Kapwa. Each belonging to a different diasporic and musical tradition, they bring together the diverse sonic worlds of electrified Taqsim, avant garde jazz, and experimental tape looping to create a unique sound that calls upon the universal.
Camellia Boutros is a Lebanese Palestinian multi-instrumentalist, composer, and cultural worker based in San Francisco. Established in the Bay Area music scene as a performer and improviser on trumpet, oud, and electric bass, she developed a fretless 12-string electric guitar as a vehicle for sonic exploration in her own brand of Arab experimentalism. Naming her instrument the “electric oud-guitar,” Camellia writes music rooted in both Arabic Maqam and the Bay Area sound, which reflects her own experience growing up between California and the Levant.
Kumi Maxson is a bassist focusing on experimental improvisation-based performance. They utilize improvisation to explore pathways to a liberated sense of being. Their artistic practice is grounded in connection – drawing people into the meaning-making process of performance. Class-conscious examination of the function of popular and avant-garde music in society informs their work and drives the creation of sonic space where imaginations of resistance and restructuring can thrive.