Will Guthrie

People Pleaser

Black Truffle
17.95 €
icon/play-white
Backorder
Tax included, Shipping not included
Black Truffle presents People Pleaser, the new LP from Nantes-based drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. Initially rising to prominence in Australia as a drummer in the fields of jazz and improvised music, Guthrie later turned increasingly toward electronics and amplified percussion, developing an idiosyncratic style of electro-acoustic performance characterized by shimmering metallic textures, rapid-fire textural transformations and aggressively high volume. Recent years have seen a return to the drum kit in both solo and collaborative work, in performances where Guthrie uses duration and endurance to push at the limits of his formidable technical abilities as a player in the free jazz tradition, working variations on short rhythmic units into an endless flow of non-metered pulse. Although drawing on many aspects of Guthrie’s past work, People Pleaser stands alone in the catalogue of his recorded work. Working fast and intuitively over a period of three weeks, Guthrie has crafted a suite of song-length pieces that combine his drumming with electronics, field recordings, and sampled detritus. Inspired by rough and ready sampling style of producers like RZA, J Dilla and Knxwledge, and by the endless possibilities of musique concrète, People Pleaser uses a highly divergent array of sound sources, building pieces from drum and percussion tracks left over from other projects, audio ripped from skate videos, noise electronics, fragments of a police interrogation, and anything else ready to hand. Guthrie’s unique rhythmic sensibility is the thread drawing all these elements together, his drum performances propulsively rhythmic yet insistently irregular in a way that sometimes brings to mind the uniquely open rhythmic space carved out in the early Weather Report and other classic fusion. Drawing together a manifold of influences in an entirely sui generis way, People Pleaser is a raw, exciting, and surprisingly accessible peak into the laboratory of a unique sensibility.

Share Article

Details

Release Date

27.03.2017

Cat No

Black Truffle 027 LP

Tracklist

Track 1
icon/play-white
Track 2
icon/play-white
Electronica
icon/play-white
LP
Will Guthrie
19.95 €
Nist-Nah Black Truffle
Backorder
Electronica
LP
icon/play-white
Will Guthrie
19.95 €
Nist-Nah Black Truffle
Experimental Electronica
Cassette + mp3
Will Guthrie
12.95 €
Some Nasty Hasana Editions
Backorder
Electronica
Cassette + mp3
Will Guthrie
12.95 €
Some Nasty Hasana Editions
Asia
icon/play-white
LP
Sombat Simla
24.95 €
Master Of Bamboo Mouth Organ - Isan, Thailand Black Truffle
Add To Cart
World
LP
icon/play-white
Sombat Simla
24.95 €
Master Of Bamboo Mouth Organ - Isan, Thailand Black Truffle
India
icon/play-white
2-LP
Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
32.95 €
Vrindavan 1982 Black Truffle
Add To Cart
World
2-LP
icon/play-white
Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
32.95 €
Vrindavan 1982 Black Truffle
Ambient
icon/play-white
LP
Sam Dunscombe
25.95 €
Two Forests - Oceanic Black Truffle
Add To Cart
Electronica
LP
icon/play-white
Sam Dunscombe
25.95 €
Two Forests - Oceanic Black Truffle
Jazz
icon/play-white
LP
Otto Willberg
22.95 €
The Leisure Principle Black Truffle
Add To Cart
Jazz
LP
icon/play-white
Otto Willberg
22.95 €
The Leisure Principle Black Truffle
Experimental Electronica
icon/play-white
LP
Marja Ahti
23.95 €
Tender Membranes Black Truffle
Backorder
Electronica
LP
icon/play-white
Marja Ahti
23.95 €
Tender Membranes Black Truffle
Electronica
icon/play-white
LP
Alvin Lucier
25.95 €
Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II Black Truffle
Backorder
Electronica
LP
icon/play-white
Alvin Lucier
25.95 €
Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II Black Truffle
Experimental Electronica
icon/play-white
LP
Will Guthrie
17.95 €
People Pleaser Black Truffle
Backorder
Electronica
LP
icon/play-white
Will Guthrie
17.95 €
People Pleaser Black Truffle
Ambient
icon/play-white
LP
Midori Takada
19.95 €
Through The Looking Glass (2017 Reedition) WRWTFWW
Add To Cart
Electronica
LP
icon/play-white
Midori Takada
19.95 €
Through The Looking Glass (2017 Reedition) WRWTFWW
Electronica
icon/play-white
2-LP + mp3
Autechre
28.95 €
Incunabula Warp
Backorder
Electronica
2-LP + mp3
icon/play-white
Autechre
28.95 €
Incunabula Warp