Cellar Sessions: Kim Anderson - Yarrow June 29th, 2018 City Winery New York

Kim Anderson sits down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on June 29th, 2018. Watch the full session here: https://youtu.be/rhEc_GLT1aQ For more info visit: http://www.kimandersonmusic.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin

Setlist:

Yarrow

Meteorites

By The River

Kim Anderson is a composer, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist based out of New York. Her music walks the line between many genres, incorporating the lyrical intimacy of folk songs with the delicate, detailed instrumental arrangements of chamber music. Raised by jazz musician parents in New York City, she grew up absorbing a diverse blend of musical genres, continuing on to study composition more formally at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA, and later to immerse herself in the world of West African music when she began studying the rhythmic percussion traditions of Ivory Coast and Guinea. She works as a composer/arranger and music teacher, and is a musician for Big Apple Playback Theater and percussionist with the Kotchegna Drum and Dance Company, led by Ivory Coast-based master drummer and dancer Vado Diomande. She also performs her own original music throughout the NY area and beyond.

When she turns her attention to songwriting, her unique musical influences blend to create poetic, evocative songs that will stick with you for a long time. Her current band provides a warm backdrop of electric guitar, keyboards, bass, drums and rich vocal harmony. Her debut album ‘Yarrow’ features an unforgettable collection of songs backed by lush string and woodwind arrangements and a stellar rhythm section featuring Will Graefe (Star Rover), Benjamin Lazar Davis (Joan as Policewoman, Cuddle Magic) and Bram Kincheloe (formerly of Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds).

Yarrow is Kim Anderson’s debut album, and also the name of a small, delicate flower native to the Northeastern United State, often found growing in wide open fields and abandoned places. The songs on this album evoke images of both wild, expansive spaces and fragile, intimate detail.

Kim has found inspiration for her songs in the beauty of overgrown, forgotten urban spaces, secret corners in New York City that she grew up wandering in. Her lyrics and orchestration aim to conjure up richly detailed landscapes and a feeling of exploration, be it a walk through the wilderness, or the experience of uncharted territory in one’s own mind and in the complexity of human relationships. Kim wrote and/or arranged all the songs on Yarrow over several years, reflecting different stages of her personal and musical development.