Marisa Anderson & William Tyler - Lost Futures

Release 27th August 2021.

Guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler distil deeply rooted and varied traditions into distinctive voices all their own. Anderson and Tyler are each unyielding in their desire to extend through those traditions and the confines of guitar music to craft music at once intimate and expansive, conversational and transcendent.

The duos debut collaborative album tethers together their singular voices into unified narratives that glisten, drive and sway. On Lost Futures, Anderson and Tylers guitars dance through lush arrangements and pastoral duets serpentine and reverent.

Lost Futures takes its name from writer Mark Fishers cultural theory of the loss of potential futures, the hopes and ideals which once felt inevitable but have since been interrupted. Anderson and Tylers use of textural drones, rhythmic repetition and harmonic shifts embody the building tensions of uncertainty created by profound loss: loss