Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg has spent the past decade in independent music as a singer-songwriter, improviser and guitarist, moving from art-rock to jazz to free improvisation and folk. On releases including 2020's Auto and the 2024 album Viewfinder, they have explored a wide range of approaches. After five years experimenting in different bands, genres and creative challenges, and following a period of self-confrontation, Eisenberg presents the self-titled new album (Joyful Noise). Wendy Eisenberg appears at Cafe OTO on 9 November 2026 at 7:30 pm.

These songs began to take root in 2020 when Eisenberg moved from Western Massachusetts, where they had lived for a few years after attending Boston's New England Conservatory, to Brooklyn. Longing for the pastoral feel of their former home, Eisenberg gravitated towards the sounds of country and folk. "The songs are genuinely folk songs," Eisenberg says of their record. "The production is less about seeing what the guitar might be capable of and more about accepting the strangeness of the languages it has spoken for the last century and a half."