Bowerbird is pleased to present SQUANDERERS, the glowingly new trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer.

Their debut LP If a Body Meet a Body appeared on Shimmy-Disc in November 2024, and the group performed at the 2025 Big Ears festival. A second album, Skantagio, is forthcoming from Shimmy-Disc in August 2025. Squanderers first sprung into action as the duo of Kramer and Grubbs with the single “Congress of Poodles” b/w “Lendrick Muir Bible Study Weekend,” part of Kramer’s 2023 Shimmy-Disc box set Rings of Saturn. SQUANDERERS now enter the arena of live performance with the addition of bona-fide guitar slayer Eisenberg, a dream of a foil to Grubbs’s grubbslike guitarisms, setting the scene for Kramer to follow his musical divining rod. Divining urges not dirges. In Grubbs’s book-length poem, The Voice in the Headphones, “Squanderer” is the nickname that most deeply troubles of the book’s unnamed protagonist: “Hang your head, Squanderer. You’ll never darken the doorway of Studio A.” Will this trio of inveterate SQUANDERERS redeem themselves?

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the
computer, the synthesizer, and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-
rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate
basements. Though often working solo as both a songwriter and improviser, with acclaimed
releases on Tzadik, Ba Da Bing, VDSQ, Out of your Head, and Dear Life, they also perform in
the rock band Editrix, and in endless other combinations of their heroes and peers including Bill
Orcutt, Caroline Davis, Carla Kihlstedt, John Zorn, Billy Martin, and Allison Miller. They also
write about music and other things, with published essays on music in Sound American, Arcana
XIII, and the Contemporary Music Review.

David Grubbs has released sixteen solo albums and was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol,
Bastro, and Squirrel Bait. He has performed with Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Luc Ferrari,
Susan Howe, Will Oldham, the Red Krayola, and many others. Grubbs is Distinguished
Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of books
including Good night the pleasure was ours, The Voice in the Headphones, Now that the
audience is assembled, and Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound
Recording.

Kramer is a composer/musician/filmmaker and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with
artists as diverse as John Zorn, Butthole Surfers, Bill Frisell, Ween, The Fugs, Thurston Moore,
Penn Jillette, Allen Ginsberg, Jad Fair, and Laraaji, to name but a few. He is also a renowned
record producer (Galaxie 500, Low, Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham, etc.) and the founder of the
iconic NYC record label, Shimmy-Disc. He rarely performs onstage, and Squanderers is his first
long-term recording project to include live performances since 1999. He currently lives and
works in the Appalachian Temperate Rainforest.