This week's packed Nowhere Street newsletter gets into Bill Orcutt/ Ethan Miller / Steve Shelley, Judith Berkson, Kaja Draksler, Karen Ng, and Oker. It's free to subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/petermar...
What’s happening tonight? Only this!!!
Upset The Rhythm presents…
BILL ORCUTT
ALEXANDER TUCKER
Monday 13 April
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, London W12 7LJ
7.30pm | £18 | Tickets: link.dice.fm/W67f153a3768
See you later!
UTR x
@billorcutt.bsky.social @alexandertucker.bsky.social
The triangle formed by his left arm is a premonition of the YouTube video play button
Ladies & germaniums: ORCUTT SHELLEY MILLER YOW!!!
OSM & legendary frontman David Yow of The Jesus Lizard join forces for a feral rendition of Captain Beefheart’s Hot Head, b/w N Young’s A Man Needs A Maid by OSM, digital EP out today, vinyl preorder: orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/hot-head
Q. What's your next show UTR?
A. Only this!!!
BILL ORCUTT
ALEXANDER TUCKER
Monday 13 April
Bush Hall, London, W12 7LJ
7.30pm | Tickets: link.dice.fm/W67f153a3768
@billorcutt.bsky.social @alexandertucker.bsky.social
I didn't tap in with @billorcutt.bsky.social's brilliant music until Made Out Of Sound in 2021, so I loved reading more about his life and arc from @philipsherburne.bsky.social
I, too, only discovered @billorcutt.bsky.social's music from that 2021 record, but have since devoured almost everything he's put out. Hard to imagine much topping the Roulette Weekend for me in 2026.
Was thrilled to see @philipsherburne.bsky.social's piece in my inbox this morning!
Miller, Shelley and Orcutt (all bearded). Photo by Sheva Kafai.
Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley and Ethan Miller tell Jennifer Lucy Allan how a Grateful Dead tribute show led to their new collaboration, the joy of bootlegs, and how they're avoiding the ego-driven pitfalls that have dogged supergroups past
An Interview with Orcutt Shelley Miller
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Shane Parish :: Autechre Guitar
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Parish maintains the sparse, glitchy ambience of the originals while placing something else entirely in its place, with just his fingerstyle technique and the ability to, with it, form these ghostly layers of concentric circles
Bill Orcutt holds his guitar triumphantly - rightly so because their set was the hottest fire - while Steve Shelley looks on and Ethan Miller takes a bow.
Orcutt Shelley Miller
The Standard - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
March 29, 2016
Big Ears
Ava Mendoza - The Circular Train LP
Went to Acme Records in Milwaukee (first time!) and found this gem. I only discovered her recently via the recent @billorcutt.bsky.social 3-night concert in Brooklyn and am now happily diving in 🎸
N2 of the Bill Orcutt/Palilalia Records showcase upped the ante. Blazing solo set by Ava Mendoza, face-melting Orcutt - Corsano duo set, hypnotic solo set by Cyrus Pireh & a 3rd-eye squeeging by the 13-piece Four Louies closing set. Positively levitating rn. Bring on N3 tomorrow!
13 piece band plays The Four Louies
Orcutt/Corsano Duo
Cyrus Pireh sits onstage with guitar
Ava Mendoza on solo guitar
night 2 of @roulettenyc.bsky.social's instantly legendary @billorcutt.bsky.social fest: delirious "louie louie" maximalism on "the four louies," duo with chris corsano on elemental stone-skipping fire drums, & solo sets of prismatic electric fingerpicking by cyrus pireh & shred-melt by ava mendoza.
BILL ORCUTT - MUSIC IN CONTINUOUS MOTION (PALILALIA, 2026)
Happy New Bill Orcutt Day to all who celebrate.
N1 of the Bill Orcutt/Palilalia Records showcase did NOT disappoint. Shane Parish Autechre solo / Bill's How to Rescue Things / BOGQ / Chuck Roth & Kris Gruda (not pictured). Last nite showed that the guitar can still amaze you with what can be still be done with it after all of these yrs.
guitar quartet in action
Bill Orcutt with laptop
Kris Gruda goes at acoustic guitar
Shane Parish plays acoustic guitar
ecstatic overtones on night 1 of @roulettenyc.bsky.social's @billorcutt.bsky.social fest: the glorious guitar quartet, dreamy orcutt on "how to rescue things," @shaneparish.bsky.social's player piano-like right hand doing acoustic autechre, kris gruda's immolating acoustic bebop (plus chuck roth)
#NewMusicFriday
@billorcutt.bsky.social, 'Last Days'
The GUFFAW that emitted from my body upon hearing the riff featured in Bill's latest experiment in pop music minimalism.
fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/last-d...
Mabe Fratti, photo by Andrea Ballesta.
'To mark Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt's forthcoming collaborative album Almost Waking, we've got Fratti's 2024 Baker's Dozen in which she praised Orcutt, resulting in the duo's initial communication...'
#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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JUST IN! 'Music In Continuous Motion' by Bill Orcutt
Twelve compositions from the experimental guitarist who leads a quartet on a work originally written for a New York gig this year.
www.normanrecords.com/records/2141...
I forgot I mentioned that! It was disappointing but I didn’t walk out
This week Tone Glow is doing a five part series of interviews with the four members of the Guitar Quartet (individually & together) in advance of my residency at Roulette. First up, ME.
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Just bought two new albums on @bandcamp.com:
@kimletgordon.bsky.social and @billorcutt.bsky.social .
Both are 12 tracks.
Both are 29:59.
Friday night at Roulette has sold out and Saturday has just a handful of tickets left. Only a week away!
Get tickets at roulette.org
Painting by Paulette Razy-Faulkner.
The latest work for four guitars by Bill Orcutt sounds like a history lesson in guitar technique
Bill Orcutt's Music In Continuous Motion is our album of the week
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Pre-Order Now:
Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti - Almost Waking
Unheard Of Hope
https://bleep.com/release/582426
Debut collab of Mabe Fratti, Guatemalan cellist, vocalist of experimental yet deeply melodic work & Bill Orcutt, American guitarist and composer known for his raw, highly individual approach.
My new one "Music in Continuous Motion" is out today. Get it on the orcutt bandcamp
billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
A couple years ago Mabe Fratti made the mistake of mentioning my name in a list of her favorite albums. I immediately sent an email proposing a collaboration. And today you can hear the first two singles. The album releases on May 22 on Tin Angel.
tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost...
@billorcutt.bsky.social and Mabe Fratti announce new album 'Almost Waking'; hear two gorgeous tracks
Experimental guitarist Bill Orcutt explores the intersection between agitation and timelessness on "Music in Continuous Motion," our Album of the Day.
It’s ME!