For the first time ever, Will Guthrie plays in Los Angeles.
The Australian drummer/ percussionist, who has been living in France for a long, toasty, croissanty spell, performs a duo with dj sniff, a recent relocatee from Tokyo to LA.
The duo premiere of local boundary-pushers Breana Gilcher and David Kendall rounds out the evening.
Will Guthrie (drums) & dj sniff (turntables)
Breana Gilcher (oboe, English horn and sem-modular synth) & David Kendall (guitar)
Guthrie started in jazz then took a long detour away from the drum kit through junk electronics, extreme amplification and electro-acoustic techniques, documented on a series of solo and collaborative recordings released on exquisite labels like Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Ipecac and Clean Feed. Alongside continuing his electro-acoustic work, in the last decade, Guthrie has returned to the drums with a vengeance, developing a series of solo works marked by a radical single-mindedness, from relentless rhythmic workouts to earth-quaking explorations of the bass frequencies of gongs and other metal percussion instruments. Guthrie’s work is distinguished from the delicately pointillist approach of many European improvisers by his rhythmic sophistication, unashamed virtuosity and undeniable physicality, touching on aspects of world musics from Javanese gamelan to South Indian Carnatic music.
