what tuning did bill orcutt use in harry pussy????

thanks in advance i love music
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/slamdunk_zpsae279f4c.gif

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oh shit... scratch that!

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http://blog.imageworksllc.com/Portals/165864/images/stock-photo-7350033-jesus-slam-dunking-a-basketball.jpg

this latest one is great... gonna have to sit with it for awhile, seems like a bit of a classic tbh

there's a new Harry Pussy album?!

sorry, bill orcutt solo

yeah, i like it a lot! this one and his VDSQ release are definitely my faves of the stuff I've heard (i know there's a lot i haven't heard)

If you're old like me, you might remember "The Entertainer" a Scott Joplin ragtime number, which, in a bastardized version by Marvin Hamlisch, was ubiquitous in 1974, thanks to its inclusion in the hit movie "The Sting." It was annoying to 12 year old 1/2 https://t.co/8TY5lwzvgO

— Bill Orcutt (@billorcutt) April 6, 2020

awesome, thanks for sharing.

Working with the theme of that cut-off Joplin half-loop, it's very Jazz Ha

Let's Build A Piano

lol

perfect prescription for these febrile nights of hypnagogia

San Francisco based musician Bill Orcutt presents "The Idea of Every One," an hour-long exploration of the source material behind his Editions Mego LP "The History of Every One." Inspired by the "contrapuntal" CBC radio programs of Glenn Gould and the multilayered superimpositions of Godard's "Histoire(s) du cinéma," it's a dense and harrowing ride through the history of American popular music.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/bill-orcutt-28th-may-2020

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1171047855/bill-orcutt-guitar-quartet-tiny-desk-concert

Sund4r to thread!!

awesome.

this is so amazing.

thanks to this, went on a deep dive searching on recent orcutt stuff. and found this!!!

https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/a-mechanical-joey

ha. which them led me to his GITHUB profile: https://github.com/billorcutt?tab=repositories

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/the-consolation-of-records

everything except the test pressings sold out by the time I checked that link, thanks Bill

No digital, no streaming, no repress !!

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1171047855/bill-orcutt-guitar-quartet-tiny-desk-concert

Sund4r to thread!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:03

^^

Would love to hear from people more familiar with this sort of thing how Four Guitars Live (Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish) compares with the (Billx4) original Music For Four Guitars:

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/four-guitars-live

Only just now catching that the other three guitarist in the Orcutt Quartet omit their A and D strings like their leader does--amazing

I guess this is our S/D thread? this sounds very cool on first listen:

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-rescue-things

hmm

Love the concept

Yeah, this is great - dr3w compared it to this Alan Licht piece on Twitter:

https://alanlicht.bandcamp.com/track/the-old-victrola

Echoes of the Caretaker / Gate's Saturday Night Fever for me.

i'm into pretty much everything orcutt does but i love "how to rescue things"

Drove from Bathurst to Sydney recently with this on and it really painted the scenery.

It's fantastic.

Hadn't realised he'd also released a Reich Four Organs/"Louie Louie" pileup this year:

https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-louies

^ this is fantastic

The Four Guitars Live with Ava Mendoza, Wendy Eisenberg and Shane Parish is absolutely fantastic.

i saw them live (fantastic) but don't really have any desire to relive it via a recording tbh

Bill's taking The Four Louies on the road (well, SF & LA):

https://i.imgur.com/qB8nR7v.png

https://i.imgur.com/6yNmKPp.png

So far Bill's only announced Wiliam Wynant as part of the 12 piece orchestra but Tony Bedard mentioned he'll be drumming as well.

Winant*

Huh, second Four Guitars live album coming out (2024 in Chicago vs 2023 in Utrecht/Copenhagen):

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/hauslive-4

Hausu Mountain continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music. On HausLive 4, we rewind the clock approximately one year to May 3rd, 2024 at Constellation, where the all-star Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish) made their barn-burning Chicago debut. The series channels the spirit of the informal bootlegging and tape trading of audience recordings as pioneered by the community surrounding the Grateful Dead, honing in on the raw live energy and in-the-moment emotions that can make any show stand out in the stream of time. HausLive 4 catches the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet in a sublime state of tour-hardened synergy with one another as they tear through the four-string guitar compositions that Orcutt wrote for his album Music for Four Guitars (Palilalia Records, 2022) with dialed-in fingers-on-fretboard precision, while also letting those songs evolve into flights of improvisation and extend into solo and duo passages led by each of the four guitarists. As Orcutt says on tape during one of the show’s interludes, “that record is thirty minutes; this show is an hour, so we’re improvising.” The resulting free-wheeling moments combine with the rigidity of Orcutt’s meticulous four-guitar compositions to form a program of music that draws power in equal measure from the forces of chance and discipline.

The above is out; Stereogum have a nice interview with all four members of the quartet:

https://www.stereogum.com/2306079/bill-orcutt-guitar-quartets-glorious-ordered-chaos/music/

the quartet live album rocks