Marc Anderson

Anderson was born in Austin, Minnesota, the son of Truman Anderson and Mary Lou Regner. He is the oldest of 5 children. He attended Austin Central High School and holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota.

In 1977 Anderson met and began working with Steve Tibbetts who had just started working his second record. That record, titled YR, led to their first recording with the prestigious German record company ECM and legendary producer Manfred Eicher. In the fall of 1982 the two flew to Oslo, Norway and recorded Northern Song, the first of many recordings the pair would make over the next several decades.

Through the 1980s and 1990s Anderson became a stalwart in the Twin Cities music community as a sideman and bandleader performing and recording in a wide range of musical and artistic environments including; free improvisation, traditional Irish, Ghanaian, Finnish and Americana folk music, experimental, avant-garde, jazz and pop. He also produced a number of records including two recordings as leader and composer: Time Fish and Ruby. He has toured extensively in the US, Europe and Asia. He was the founder of two Twin Cities musical groups: Eight head and Speaking In Tongues. His most recent musical project in called Music and Words.

In the early 1980s he met Sowah Mensah, a musician and teacher from Ghana, launching a friendship and new musical direction. Anderson went on to study Ghanaian music with Mensah and with teachers in Ghana for many years.{{Cite web |last=Stories |first=Local |date=2022-12-29 |title=Rising Stars: Meet Marc Anderson - Voyage Minnesota Magazine |url=https://voyageminnesota.com/interview/rising-stars-meet-marc-anderson-of-lowertown-st-paul/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=voyageminnesota.com |language=en-US}} He has also studied Haitian ritual drumming.

Anderson began doing transcendental meditation in 1983.{{Cite web |date=2011-08-03 |title=Bringing meditation to Twin Cities youth |url=https://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2011/08/bringing-meditation-twin-cities-youth/ |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=MinnPost |language=en-US}} Anderson runs a community based project called The Urban Monk Project.{{Cite web |title=Music Mission |url=https://www.musicmissionmusic.com/lakeside-guitar-festival-2022 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Music Mission |language=en-US}}

• Time Fish - 1993{{Cite web |title=Marc Anderson Albums and Discography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/marc-anderson-mn0000675595/discography |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}
• Ruby -2002
• Festival Africa - 2001
• World Music - 2002

• Yr – 1980
• Northern Song – 1981
• Safe Journey – 1984
• Exploded View - 1986
• Big Map Idea – 1988
• The Fall Of Us All – 1994
• Cho (with Choying Drolma) – 1997
• A (with Knute Hamre) - 1998
• A Man About A Horse – 2002
• Selwa (with Choying Drolma) – 2004
• Natural Causes – 2010
• Life Of - 2018

• The First Day -1993

• Heart of the Heartland – 1995
• Pilgrims On The Heart Road - 1997
• Coming Down From Red Lodge – 2003 Sacred Heart - 2000
• Minnesota A History Of The Land – 2005
• Heartland Holiday - 2005
• Postcards - 2006

One More Goodnight Kiss – 1988

• Million Year Mind (artist and producer) - 1999
• Bountiful (artist and producer) – 2000
• Elements (artist and producer) -2001
• Earth Town Square (artist and producer) -2003
• Midwinter – 2005
• Novelties - 2007

• It Looks Fine From here – 1994

• Kalevala: Dream Of The Salmon Maiden - 1998

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• [https://www.marcanderson.org/ Marc Anderson official website]

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