Lotte Anker / Fred Frith
Edge of the Light
2014 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 237 
http://www.intaktrec.ch/236_237-a.htm

* Lotte Anker: saxophones
* Fred Frith: electric guitar
 
http://www.lotteanker.com/ 
http://www.fredfrith.com/

Recorded at Village Recording, Copenhagen, July 11, 2010.
Engineer: Thomas Vang.


Reviews
~~~~~~~

By Jason Bivins 
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD50/PoD50MoreMoments2.html

[...]

Saxophonist Anker plays in an assertive, tough-minded style that’s well suited
to improvising with Frith. She digs in and wails as he cranks out chords and
taps furiously on “Anchor Point,” and her assured rhythmic sensibility works
quite well here and throughout the well-paced disc. While her sound doesn’t
undergo as many outward transformations as Frith’s does, she’s smart,
adaptable, and plays with good humor. Hear her range on “Run Don’t Hide”: its
sweet drone wash cedes to one of Frith’s wonderfully obsessive
tapping/arpeggiating cycles, to which Anker responds with first echolalia and
then sour alto birdcalls. Frith plays with loops, layers of nasty distortion,
metallic scrambles, and buzzing hives of noise, and amidst it all, Anker sounds
like some kind of shaman attempting to communicate with the cosmic realities of
his guitar (except for those times when she sounds like she’s trying to tame
its beastliness, as on “Reasonably Available Control Measures”). But there’s
considerable sonic and textural range here, from tart lyricism to relative calm
to gentle lapping percussion, and in any case things are never merely
noisy. Amidst its flinty, choked-off plucking and darting tenor, “The Mountain
is as Quiet as the Eternal Past” manages to get quite folkish in places. There
is drifting tonality, wafting electricity, singing feedback and circular
breathing on tunes like “The Same Dirt” and “Hallucinating Angels,” great
whorls of sound take shape around your head. And perhaps best of all is the
unpredictable “Thief Breaks Into an Empty House,” with flute tones and
electronics whizzing about, furtive and slashing at once.

[...]

--

By John Fordham 
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/26/fred-frith-lotte-anker-review-jazz

By Tor Hammerø (no) 
http://torhammero.blogg.no/1420771840_fri_frith.html

By Julia Neupert (de) 
http://www.swr.de/swr2/musik/cd-tipps/the-edge-of-the-light-anker-frith/-/id=12628344/did=14924782/nid=12628344/8pwcuz/index.html

Di Marco Maiocco (it)

Par Pierre Tenne (fr) 
http://www.djamlarevue.com/lotte-anker-fred-frith-edge-of-the-light/