All ages show!
Tickets $15 (available through Eventbrite, or at the door) - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foret-endormie-an-anderson-is-she-tickets-863182300497?aff=oddtdtcreator
Doors 6:30
Show 7:00
Forêt Endormie (“Sleeping Forest” in English) is a neoclassical / dark folk ensemble formed in 2016 by Falls of Rauros guitarist and composer Jordan Guerette in the “Forest City” of Portland, Maine. Their current instrumentation of violin, double bass, clarinet, piano/keyboards, percussion, electric guitar, and voice allows for the exploration and fusion of disparate, but overlapping, musical worlds.
Distorted Sound Magazine called their most recent album Le désespoir utopique (2023) "an exquisite piece of work, one that rewards paying attention to its intricacies, and one that sends echoes down through the centuries of humanity’s movement, displacement, and longing for home". This album expands the group's stylistic boundaries with explorations of early European classical music (Renaissance and earlier), "continuous music" (Lubomyr Melnyk), and avant-garde jazz (Alice Coltrane), while incorporating more electronic/synthesized elements drawn from trip-hop and ambient. https://foretendormie.bandcamp.com/music
An Anderson are an instrumental rock band formed in Maine in 2012. They’ve often drawn inspiration from disparate influences including ‘90s math and noise rock, Early music, black metal, and electronic music. In 2015 they released their first full length LP Very Machine. Bangor Daily News wrote, “…it’s certainly a modern indulgence that Mainers can witness An Anderson, the thrillingly complex four-piece instrumental unit that raised its own bar with this one-track, 35-minute album.”
After 10 years and three records, An Anderson have shifted their focus from frenetic and often abrasive noise rock to their own style of polyrhythmic dance music. While maintaining many of their post-punk inspired elements, instrumentation now includes two full drum sets, electric guitar, and bass. Their performances are a continuous flow of evolving polyrhythms and odd meters.
https://ananderson.bandcamp.com/
Is She? (Estelle Poole) is a guitarist, vocalist and composer based in Portland, Maine. She is known locally/regionally as an illuminating songwriter whose lyrical themes articulate and unravel complex subject matters, such as love, loss, failures of patriarchy, mental health, and community into gorgeous songscapes with broad appeal. In 2011, she began recording and performing her own body of original work through her musical moniker ‘Is She?’ and recently fronted the collaborative band Junesevere.
She is currently working with Zoe Stefanic on keyboards and back up vocals and the producer and bassist Stu Mahan (The London Souls, Eric Krasno Band) on recording her body of work, and is a participant in Tilth Arts and Agriculture’s two year arts business accelerator program for demonstrable up and coming arts business and regional talent.