Bill Orcutt - Music In Continuous Motion LP

Orcutt’s back and does he ever sleep???

Redeploying the four guitars recording technique previously explored in 2022, there are parts here that remind me of Music For Four Guitars, namely guitar tracks that shift from interlocking with each other to pinging off each other, offering distinct wormholes to explore the composition, like picking up a certain colour or strand of paint in a Pollock painting and following it.

Music In Continuous Motion also feels like a slight departure from the all in, all equal mixes of the 2022 LP. These pieces at once seem more minimal, with Orcutt’s guitars at times sitting on a particular looping riff in unison, or multiple guitars chiming on similar chordal structures. At other times, a lead line playing a melody or riff emerges and settles on top of the mix like a more rocking Rhys Chatham composition.

-Mitch