S16 E1: Joy Guidry

I’m very excited and deeply honoured to talk to my guest today. Joy Guidry is a classically trained bassoonist - and, the first bassoonist on my podcast – who, with each record released (and there are three now), is showing a level of thinking and creativity that is, excuse the pun, a joy to witness. She brings experimentation, improvisation, the radical, the avant garde and deep reflection whilst always being connected to Black ancestry and sound traditions. Her latest album, Five Prayers, moved into a territory of solitude, refuge, peace, discovery and gratitude. It’s a really stunning piece of work.

I reconnected with the cello after many years of disinterest. The pull and push tension between what I learned and remembered from a classical framework and, I guess, where I want to go which is bringing in more experimentation & improvisation is something that I’m exploring. It’s a slow process where I’m having to unlearn things and I’d hold Joy up as an example to anyone of the power of our mind to create music that takes a traditionally classical instrument out of that classical context and also to take you into the innermost sanctum of your humanity.

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