Frans de Waard of Vital Weekly has a lovely review of my new cassette on Notice Recordings. Reposted below:
ANNE GUTHRIE – SO IT’S INVERTED; OCCUPYING THE SAME POSITION AS ALWAYS (cassette by Notice Recordings)
From New York, Anne Guthrie is a horn player, of whom reviewed music before, like her ‘Perhaps A Favorable Organic Moment’ in Vital Weekly 786. She uses also field recordings, which she uses alongside her playing. On this new cassette she uses field recordings from Costa Rica, and she uses them extensively. On top she plays her horn, but it’s never easy to tell what, when and where here. Likewise it’s not easy to say to what extend she has processed these field recordings, if at all. I am pretty sure she did, to some extend. Maybe creating loops out of the material, maybe some radical equalization, and then cut along with her extra-ordinary playing of the horn, which she uses to produce some really wild sounds which may sound like anything but a horn. It gives both sides, one piece per side, a feeling that they belong to each other, two sides of the same coin. It’s all quite mysterious; you have no idea what’s going on, field recordings aren’t easily recognized as such, nor is the horn playing, but that mystery makes this all the more captivating I think. A sound world of it’s own. Excellent.
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