# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Marisa Anderson with Chandra Shukla
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: APLR Presents: Marisa Anderson

Sunday, June 14th, 2026

AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806

Doors 6PM || Event 7PM || All ages

Marisa Anderson

Marisa Anderson’s music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections of artistry and expression with form and tradition. A singular guitarist and voracious musical collaborator, Anderson crafts pieces bursting with equal parts reverence and curiosity, contouring familiar shapes into work that is wholly her own. Anderson has spent decades mining the veins of the complicated, interconnected American folk traditions she was steeped in from a young age, stretching beyond those traditions and incorporating the vocabulary and techniques of vernacular and folk musics from across time and beyond boundary into her work. Eschewing replication or revival, Anderson’s music lives in conversation with tradition. “My approach to tradition is with the hands that I have and the history that I have,” notes Anderson. “In that way it’s a collaboration—you don’t go into collaboration trying to play like the other person, you go in trying to find out how to play together.”

The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music is a collection of nearly one thousand songs culled from the private record collection of the late Harry Smith. Assembled by Anderson after a chance encounter led to an opportunity to study and explore this treasure trove of music, the Anthology focuses on music from places that the United States has been in conflict with since 1970: Southeast Asia, the USSR, and the Arabic and Islamic regions of the world. In Volume 1, Anderson presents her own deeply personal iterations of nine songs from the Anthology. Composed, transcribed, and arranged through a process of trial and error, deep listening, and research, Anderson charts a musical course from Afghanistan to Vietnam via Yemen, Cambodia, and Turkmenistan. Interpretations of compositions ranging from Pakistani qawwali to Syrian taqsim are played with Anderson’s deft and practiced hands. Each piece on the album stands as a dialogue between Anderson and the original source recording, refracted through the prism of her own unique musical lens. Anderson’s contribution to this dialogue ultimately invites the listener to join her in asking: “Who are the people we’ve been told in our lifetimes are ‘unamerican’? What have we lost or been denied access to in the fallout from that label?”

The ongoing project of the Anthology centers curiosity and a commitment to deep listening as it seeks to build bridges with communities and cultural practices from across the globe. Anderson openly acknowledges the limitations she was working with, which include an historic lack of access to traditions outside of US markets and frames of reference, improper documentation within the source material, and the need to operate within a finite amount of time for explorations of vast cultural traditions. For Anderson, these are key pieces to the dialogue. “I am a musician, not an ethnomusicologist or an anthropologist,” Anderson notes. “I’m curious about how music is made, organized, and shared. I am interested in how people and music move across the world, how war, migration, nomadism, colonization, and contemporary and historical economic dynamics affect music and musicians. What is the musical relationship of people to place? How is that relationship altered when shifting borders or global conflicts curtail movement or force migration into or away from a place? What do we carry with us when we leave home, and what do we bring home from faraway places?”

The instrumentation Anderson employs here is largely familiar to her: electric and acoustic guitars, electric keyboards, requinto jarocho, accordion, and tres cubano. The record also features key performances by violinist/violist Gisela Rodríguez Fernández. Aiming to stay true to the essence of the source material, Anderson pushes her tools past the edges of their traditional territories, despite knowing that her interpretations will never entirely replicate sounds and phrases built around non-Western musical systems and instruments. Accordion drones bely the flickering tendrils of acoustic guitar on pieces like “Quodlibet,” while approximating the original’s use of quarter-tones. “Taqsim for Guitar” forgoes a taqsim’s usual use of improvisation in favor of interpreting the source piece’s melodic phrasing more accurately. Considered arrangements of layered keyboards emulate droning flutes on “Pair of Duduk,” and intertwining guitars take on the winding vocal melodies of “Hamd.”

For Anderson, there are no easy answers. The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music is as much a celebration of music from beyond borders as it is an examination of those borders, real and imagined, that restrict movement and curtail the natural flow of music across the globe. Filtered through decades of experience as a singular artist and interpreter of feeling and sound, the Anthology’s first volume demonstrates Anderson’s reverence for those practices unfamiliar to and largely excluded from the American lexicon while capturing the core humanity behind a diversity of musical expressions.

Chandra Shukla
Chandra Shukla (born Vivek Chandra Shukla 1975 Alameda, California) is an experimental/avant-garde musician interested in audio, video, live performances, graphic design and runs the independent record label Erototox Decodings. His history stems from learning Indian Classical Music by learning tabla from the likes of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and sitar from Pandit Habib Khan. At the age of 17, Chandra Shukla met Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and for the next 4 years would be involved with joining Psychic TV and h/er for their live performances sometimes in the Bay Area and other times abroad. In 1998, joining P-Orridge’s first incarnation of Thee Majesty on stage in Stockholm Sweden, with Bachir and Mustafa Attar of The Master Musicians of Jajouka playing eps samplers and his Indian classical instruments. Though offering his skills to other projects such as Scribble Seven (Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound live project). Besides field recordings, modular synthesis, a wide and varied collection of vintage and modern effects pedals and units and the occasional gadget that makes sounds, he also is an avid collector of very rare Antiquarian books and records. In 2021, Chandra Shukla along with friend Carl Michael von Hausswolff debuted their project ‘Travelogue’ (Touch. UK). Xambuca is his main electro-acoustic experimental project and one that has shared the stage with many guests including a rotating cast of characters with audio/visual elements both live and exhibited. Chandra Shukla, once a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and Brooklyn/New York City, now resides in Asheville, NC with his partner and musician Elisa Faires and their two cats.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Asheville
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: AyurPrana Listening Room
- **lat**: 35.577620108236
- **long**: -82.576011657715
- **full address**: AyurPrana Listening Room, 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806-4232, United States

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  - **A:** Marisa Anderson with Chandra Shukla takes place on Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 14 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm at AyurPrana Listening Room, 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806-4232, United States.
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