{"title":"Bill Orcutt In Stock","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"chris-corsano-bill-orcutt-made-out-of-sound-lp","title":"Chris Corsano \u0026 Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter two and a half years out of print, Corsano\/Orcutt's most popular album, Made Out of Sound, returns in a limited edition pressing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBest of 2021 — The Guardian, Pitchfork, Wire, Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, Magnet \u0026amp; Raven Sings the Blues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePitchfork : \"It’s a joyful noise. This is one of the more uplifting records of experimental music in recent memory. There’s something about how Orcutt and Corsano push each other that leads to work that pulses with the life force—these pieces bring to mind sunlight hitting a maple leaf, cells dividing under a microscope, a deep thirst quenched. Mark Richardson\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWire : \"When you listen to Made Out Of Sound, you feel encouraged to immerse yourself in every note, cherishing the beauty of this otherworldly space. Joshua Minsoo Kim\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43431907393718,"sku":"","price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a1728409002_10.jpg?v=1724991561"},{"product_id":"bill-orcutt-music-for-four-guitars-cd","title":"Bill Orcutt - Music For Four Guitars CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn a trajectory full of about-faces, Music for Four Guitars splices the formal innovations of Bill Orcutt's software-based music into the lobe-frying, blown-out Fender hyperdrive of his most frenetic workouts with Corsano or Hoyos. And while the guitar tone here is resolutely treble-kicked—or, as Orcutt puts it, 'a bridge pickup rather than a neck pickup record'—it still wades the same melodic streams as his previous LPs (yet, as Heraclitus taught us, that stream is utterly different the second time around). Although it's a true left-field listen, Music for Four Guitars is bizarrely meditative, a Bill Orcutt Buddha Machine, a glimpse of the world of icy beauty haunting the latitudes high above the Delta (down where the climate suits your clothes)...\"—Tom Carter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1257689164\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/billorcutt.bandcamp.com\/album\/music-for-four-guitars\"\u003eMusic For Four Guitars by Bill Orcutt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43782057296054,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/products\/a1244212316_10.jpg?v=1679630718"},{"product_id":"bill-orcutt-guitar-quartet-four-guitars-live-cd","title":"Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet -  Four Guitars Live CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"As Bill Orcutt’s most mature and exhilarating LP to date, Music for Four Guitars was a slab of undeniable Apollonian beauty. Its approachability and obvious novelty landed it not only on the year- end lists of every key-pushing codger in the underground in 2022, but also on NPR in the form of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, an ensemble assembled to perform this music and featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish. But while their Tiny Desk Concert gave a whiff of the quartet’s easy intimacy, the sterile confines of the virtual recital medium still left a puzzle unsolved: how might these brutally mannered bricks of minimalist counterpoint sound on a stage in front of actual breathing bodies?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis was the question foremost in my mind when I first saw the quartet in San Francisco a few months before this double live LP was recorded. I was already familiar with the prowess of Eisenberg and Mendoza, two of the most technically intimidating shredders to blast out of the noise\/improv underground, and knew Parish as the mastermind behind the epic translation of Orcutt's quartet recordings into a fully notated score. I was ready to be “blown away\" —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand I most assuredly was. The quartet navigated Orcutt's jaggedly spiraling right angles into the shining core of the compositions with joyous ease, faithful to the originals in nearly every way (though their tempos were slightly ramped up, Blakey style, to communicate their breathless rush). The renditions were flawless, stellar and inspiring. I had expected nothing less.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhich leads us to this album, Four Guitars Live, recorded in November of 2023 at Le Guess Who? festival during the quartet’s first European tour. The true essence of this set is not simply in its faithfulness to the source compositions, but in the group's easy familiarity (no doubt the result of weeks on the road) and the generosity of their improvisations, both collective and solo. Orcutt, clearly cognizant of both the caliber of his collaborators and the singularity of their voices, has given everyone room to stretch out, and all have delivered some of their most moving passages to date.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of this record's great thrills for me is imagining a listener, perhaps unfamiliar with the outer limits of contemporary guitar improvisation (or the Tzadik catalog), slammed into catatonia by Mendoza's liquefying lines on Out of the corner of the eye, then revived and healed by the languid, breathy lines of Parish's unaccompanied, spaced-out breakdown of the track's main theme, finally only to be crushed by Eisenberg’s staggering extended solo on Only at dusk (somehow channeling both Eugene Chadbourne and Buck Dharma).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere's another peak, which begins at the end of side B, in Orcutt's own languid solo, encapsulating the flowing focus of his recent solo LPs, and serving as an introduction to the next side's ensemble tour de force, the psychic heart of the album, On the horizon: its melodic core passing first to Orcutt, launching into a sublime solo turn by Eisenberg, a duo of Parish and Mendoza, before parachuting back into the ensemble for a smashup rendition of Barely visible and Glimpsed while driving (renamed Barely driving) knitted together with an softly bubbling ensemble improvisation. The transfer is orchestrated yet seamless, its tonal form undeniable even in the presence of obvious dissonance.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe breadth of Four Guitars Live gives lie to the false notion that agile, polytonal improv is necessarily without soul, is necessarily inaccessible. Rather, Four Guitars posits a human avant-garde music that the most conservative will recognize as virtuosic and revel in its classic intervals, boiling counterpoint, and precisely- layered facets. Even the rockers in your life might dig it, so why not pass it on?\" — TOM CARTER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=595944876\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/billorcutt.bandcamp.com\/album\/four-guitars-live\"\u003eFour Guitars Live by Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43782057427126,"sku":null,"price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a1223027223_10.jpg?v=1711164130"},{"product_id":"chris-corsano-bill-orcutt-made-out-of-sound-cd","title":"Chris Corsano \u0026 Bill Orcutt - Made Out of Sound CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter two and a half years out of print, Corsano\/Orcutt's most popular album, Made Out of Sound, returns in a limited edition pressing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBest of 2021 — The Guardian, Pitchfork, Wire, Aquarium Drunkard, Stereogum, Magnet \u0026amp; Raven Sings the Blues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePitchfork : \"It’s a joyful noise. This is one of the more uplifting records of experimental music in recent memory. There’s something about how Orcutt and Corsano push each other that leads to work that pulses with the life force—these pieces bring to mind sunlight hitting a maple leaf, cells dividing under a microscope, a deep thirst quenched. Mark Richardson\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWire : \"When you listen to Made Out Of Sound, you feel encouraged to immerse yourself in every note, cherishing the beauty of this otherworldly space. 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He was obviously in hot form that night (you can tell from the rapturous crowd reception, and even the moment of stunned silence after one track): magisterial lead lines that cut like butter through the speakers, frenetic cyclical and slightly shifting riffs, a bit of self-deprecating stage banter, and these incredible sheets of sound produced in chordal sections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs always, Orcutt sits in the lineages of both Henry Flynt and Hendrix; the kind of record that anyone would like in a 12” Xmas stocking from a classic rock loving uncle to your internet-brain-rotted noise-music-head of a cousin! –Mitch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2760569235\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/billorcutt.bandcamp.com\/album\/another-perfect-day\"\u003eAnother Perfect Day by Bill Orcutt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44389011980470,"sku":null,"price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a1069427903_10.jpg?v=1762829198"},{"product_id":"bill-orcutt-a-mechanical-joey-lp","title":"Bill Orcutt - A Mechanical Joey LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Bill Orcutt is of course famous for his bluesy free improv acoustic guitar playing, which he has been performing since he re-emerged with the 2009 solo album A New Way To Pay Old Debts, 12 years after the dissolution of his seminal noise rock band Harry Pussy. He has also held down day jobs as a software engineer at various Silicon Valley companies for the last two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApart from certain errant excursions such as Harry Pussy’s final album Let’s Build A Pussy, which consists of Orcutt timestretching a second of the voice of Harry Pussy drummer Adris Hoyos into an hour, and notwithstanding the fact that since 2011 his albums have been released by electronic music label Editions Mego, there was previously a marked divergence between the computers of Orcutt’s career and the eschewal of digital manipulation in the uncompromisingly visceral playing of his vocation, in which the pluck of every string is palpable. This changed in 2016, when he released the avowedly primitive open source live coding audio program Cracked, which consists only of a window in which commands are typed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince then, Orcutt has been intermittently releasing music made with the app on his DIY label Fake Estates, A Mechanical Joey being the latest. Its two sides comprise one continuous track, lasting 35 minutes in total, during which Orcutt creates the illusion that a sample of Joey Ramone counting in a song accompanied by drumbeats is moving forwards and backwards in space. It is a sequel of sorts to last year’s Pure Genius, another release by Orcutt made on Cracked, which consists of various computer generated voices counting, accompanied by bleeps ascending the chromatic scale. The blurb for that record claims that it was borne of the fact that 'while stuck out on the left coast surrounded by braying tech bros,' Orcutt 'realized that we, the plebs, will eventually be here only to serve the machines'. But perhaps the return of the human voice on A Mechanical Joey is his indication that we might be able to resist after all.”—Daniel Neofetou, Wire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 208px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3822442412\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fakeestates.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-mechanical-joey\"\u003eA MECHANICAL JOEY by BILL ORCUTT\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44973007569078,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a1742980323_10.jpg?v=1773370697"},{"product_id":"bill-orcutt-the-four-louies-lp","title":"Bill Orcutt - The Four Louies LP","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eYou’ve heard Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” you’ve heard Linkin Park \u0026amp; Jay-Z’s “Numb\/Encore”, hell you may have even heard DJ Earworm’s United State of Pop 2009 in some cheesy email chain or around the school yard a decade and a half ago. Bill Orcutt’s got another for the pantheon of mash-ups with “The Four Louies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTaking a foundational cornerstone of rock music in Chuck Berry\/The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” and the early Minimalism of Steve Reich’s Four Organs as his source material, Orcutt cuts together two pieces that take cues from the compositional techniques of the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSide 1 is the rockin’ side, with Berry’s riff looped ad nauseam in a pretty straight matter, with Reich’s organs and maracas laid over the top. The rhythmic organ stabs and percussion of the latter almost serve as a call and response to the latin-inspired rhythms of the former before descending into chordal drones that almost evoke the organ in The VU’s “What Goes On” (or if you wanna get really rockin’ the bagpipes in ACDC’s “It’s A Long Way To The Top”).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFlip it over and you get the opposite: Reich’s compositional principals applied to rock music. Yet again just using the riff and the organs, Louie Louie gradually refracts and splinters apart becoming an interlocking network of pinging guitars, the iconic riff reduced to it’s base elements as just a series of notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs someone who was once accused of applying a ‘rockist’ lens to experimental music, I can’t get enough of this!\u003cbr\u003e-Mitch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 208px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=692211551\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fakeestates.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-four-louies\"\u003eThe Four Louies by Bill Orcutt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Midheaven","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44973016383670,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/9119\/8390\/files\/a4078395958_10.jpg?v=1773370930"}],"url":"https:\/\/repressedrecords.com\/collections\/bill-orcutt-in-stock.oembed","provider":"Repressed Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}