★Palilalia Records
One plus one
Adris Hoyos, batterie, voix et Bill Orcutt, guitare, voix. Enregistré en 92 - 93 à Miami. Une partie de ce double vinyl pochette gatefold est déjà parue sur quelques cassettes et singles mais la majorité (plus de 40 minutes) est inédite. Des enregistrements sur cassette qui documentent les débuts du groupe alternant live et studio de répétition. Une énergie débordante et ravageuse avec une batterie primitive indomptable et une guitare lacérée qui déjà, paye ses dettes à la tradition. Et de…
Way Down South
THE WIRE'S BEST OF 2010
Very limited self-released tour-only one-sided LP on clear vinyl from Bill Orcutt of Harry Pussy. Recorded live during his recent tour of New Zealand in Christchurch, this is a more spacious take on the four-string guitar barbarism of A New Way To Pay Old Debts, with long seconds of silence connecting runs of squealing strings that combine iconoclastic Ayler/Beefheart style melodies with wailing wordless vocals that are somewhere between Loren Connors’ early Dagget …
A New Way To Pay Old Debts
They may seem poles apart, but the guitar deconstructions of former Harry Pussy member Bill Orcutt on “A New Way To Pay Old Debts” place him alongside the likes of John Fahey. During the latter years of his life, Fahey deliberately turned his back on his earlier fingerpicking style to explore other ways of how to play solo guitar. To do this he allowed himself to slip into a state of altered consciousness - his fingers instinctively found the notes on the fretboard, but his imagination was unlea…