Council Of Foreign Relations • Excepter • Marcia Bassett + Taralie Peterson: Singer-Songwriter in New York

About Council Of Foreign Relations • Excepter • Marcia Bassett + Taralie Peterson

Council Of Foreign Relations, Excepter, and Marcia Bassett with Taralie Peterson appear in New York’s rock and pop underground as a shifting bill of interconnected projects. Their work moves between song form, improvisation, and electronics, shaped by the habits of downtown performance spaces and nights like their sets at Pianos. Members overlap across lineups, including past associations with Stereo Mandrax and each other, so the emphasis is often on process over fixed identity. The performances tend to favor texture and pacing over spectacle.