On Wednesday, April 17th at 7pm, we welcome the improvisers, composers, songwriters, and great friends Wendy Eisenberg and Caroline Davis to The Loading Dock. They are celebrating the April release of their inside-outside songs and improv duo album, Accept When. Listening to this album and thinking about how the music will feel in a live setting has been fun. This is an album checkerboard of modern sounding songs with beautiful instrumental sections. The interplay between Caroline’s sax and Wendy’s guitar is a very fun listen. The songs can be tightly interwoven and supremely rich and expansive. The album, when played straight through, feels very cinematic and full of tangents and detours that bring it all back around. We imagine that the performance at The Loading Dock will feature this batch of songs, we are excited to host these two amazing artists in Littleton NH!
In their own words:
We wrote “Accept When” between 2022 and 2023, after a long, beautiful period improvising together intimately in the safety of a friend’s practice space. Our friendship, the quality of attention that colored the light of that and all our other practice spaces, became the basis for our activity and growth as songwriters and our relationship as improvisers. Friendship, how we relate to each other, is our nucleus: the central and essential part of our movement; the positively charged central core of our atom.
A nucleus is supposed to be an especially essential form in eukaryotic cells. Their nuclei are surrounded by a membrane, which in that world permits them to be said to have “true nuclei.” Even their smallest parts, their organelles (incidentally also the name of Caroline’s keyboard heard throughout the record), are held by that membrane. The deepening of our musical friendship, the affordance of space we give to the possibility of synchronicity, the reminders we write of the preciousness of our existence - all of this we put into these songs for you, to help us all accept these miracles and metaphors, in our lifeboats.
