Wendy Eisenberg Stretches Two Songs Into 46 Minutes, Debuts New Band

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Wendy Eisenberg has released a two-song set that runs 46 minutes. The companion work, titled Wweennddyy Eeiisseennbbeerrgg, reimagines "Meaning Business" and "The Walls" — both from her recent self-titled album — as sprawling live renditions.

She didn't do it alone. Eisenberg recorded the package with Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn, drummer Ryan Sawyer, and violinist Mari Rubio, who records as More Eaze. Between them, their practices cover jazz, metal, country, ambient music, minimalism, and hyperpop, by Eisenberg's count.

That range is the point. Eisenberg explained the impulse in a statement:

"I want to write songs that feel infinite. I want to write songs that transcend their production, that can weather the changes. It's probably a holdover from my jazz training, the desire to hear my material in different contexts. A standard sounds different passed through time and hands. This band, Ryan, Mari, and Trevor, can do anything — between them their practices span jazz, metal, country, ambient music, minimalism, and hyperpop, at least. Why not literally stretch them, and my songs, out? I want to feel when a slowed-down song becomes ambient music, becomes jazz, becomes something else. Experimental music; an experiment. Hopefully not chopped, but definitely a little screwed."

What does this change for Eisenberg's catalog?

It treats the album versions as starting points rather than fixed statements. The reworked tracks — released under the stretched-out titles "Mmeeaanniinngg Bbuussiinneessss" and "Tthhee Wwaallllss" — take the same material and slow it down until, in Eisenberg's framing, a song becomes ambient music, then jazz, then something else. Think of it the way jazz musicians treat a standard (a shared song that each generation of players reshapes): the tune survives the transformation because the writing can "weather the changes."

A second project: Whait

There's more. Eisenberg and More Eaze have also formed a new duo, Whait. Their debut album, Sympathy at Home, arrives February 17 on Night School Records. The pair have already shared their first song together, "Falling down," which appears alongside the two reworks in the new release.

The timing puts Eisenberg in two lanes at once. One project stretches her existing songs to their structural limits with a veteran improvising band; the other starts a new songwriting partnership from scratch. Both land within the same release cycle, and both feature More Eaze — Rubio appears as violinist on the companion work and as bandmate in Whait.

Eisenberg was also recently featured in The Best Music of 2026 So Far. With a February 17 release date on the calendar, listeners now have a concrete date to hear where the new duo's writing goes.