Exclusive video premiere of ‘Theme for Contrails’ by SQUANDERERS, from their latest album ‘If a Body Meet a Body,’ available now via Shimmy-Disc.

SQUANDERERS are the glowingly new—2024 vintage—trio of guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer. Having begun SQUANDERERS as a duo in 2023 for Kramer’s ‘Rings of Saturn’ box set, Grubbs & Kramer 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’s bass to follow his musical divining rod.

The debut collaboration by three unique composers/musicians, ‘If a Body Meet a Body,’ explores the instantaneous relations between sound, gesture and space. All pieces are the results of spontaneous composition, the group playing together live and wild, in a New York studio. One afternoon of dream torched thoughts colliding, proving that hands on strings open lines of direct commune with the vastness of a collective unknown.

Today, the album is being released on vinyl, alongside a piece of ambient-cinema by Kramer for track ‘Theme for Contrails.’ Helfand said about the tune: “On the noisy ‘Theme for Contrails,’ Eisenberg is given room to air out their technical chops. But even in their shreddiest moments, they seem to be listening deeply to Grubbs’ and Kramer’s’ parts.”