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- Summary: The latest full-length release from guitarist/singer-songwriter Wendy Eisenberg was inspired by Eisenberg's laser eye surgery experience.
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- Record Label: American Dreams Records
- Genre(s): Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Progressive Big Band
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Sep 19, 2024File this with Silvia Tarozzi’s luminous Mi Specchio e Rifletto but Eisenberg’s styles are drawn from Americana and jazz, lashed together with a distinctive guitar sound (they are a member of Bill Orcutt’s Guitar Quartet). Notably, they aren’t just a great player, but have a truly handsome tone that comes off like Cary Grant walking into a diner full of ordinary joes.
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Sep 26, 2024Throughout, Eisenberg defies the concept of following a single path, instead finding a way to arrange it all so deftly that every disparate sound and conflicting idea becomes a passenger on the same vessel.
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Sep 19, 2024Viewfinder works because of the way it sounds, at times bright and harsh as neon, at others soft and ambiguous and elusive. You may not be able to discern exactly what it means, but the colors are bright, the edges sharp and the turns often surprising.
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The WireSep 19, 2024Viewfinder may end on a questioning note, but its music is warm and expansive, the sound of an inspired composer coming into the light. [Oct 2024, p.49]
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Sep 19, 2024As a whole, Viewfinder is Eisenberg’s most ambitious statement yet, and a testament to their range as an artist.
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Sep 19, 2024Aside from the sheer invention, what’s most striking about Viewfinder is Eisenberg’s ability to crystallize their complex, nuanced thoughts about the limits of perception without creating new dogma in the process.
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Sep 27, 2024Viewfinder might not have any hard answers, but it does find a kind of ambiguous truth that lies beyond the perceptible.