Bill Orcutt | Palilalia Records
January 16, 2012
“ No one is playing acoustic guitar like Bill Orcutt right now. No one.
Lars Gotrich writing about How The Thing Sings at NPR
At the All Ears festival in Oslo. Photo by Jim Hensley

At the All Ears festival in Oslo. Photo by Jim Hensley

“ Perhaps the meaning of Orcutt’s highly personal blues is not to be found either in the sounds of his guitar (fingered or struck) or in his voice (sung or grunted), but in the exertion and motions of a live body recorded in real time and space: the blues as dance.
Ian Latta reviewing How The Thing Sings on Tiny Mix Tapes
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Title track from How the Thing Sings

Antwerp gig poster by Dennis Tyfus

Antwerp gig poster by Dennis Tyfus

“ It’s tempting to focus solely on the adrenaline rush of Orcutt’s playing, and let it all fly by like a stoner zoning out to Jackson Pollock’s splattery paintings or Stan Brakhage’s color-filled abstract films. That’s a fine way to experience Orcutt’s music, but there also seems to be a lot of intense thought going on behind his impulsive acoustic clatter. Maybe that’s why his solo acoustic work has so far had a lot more staying power than the fleeting pleasures of a single trip.
Marc Masters writing about How The Thing Sings on Pitchfork
“ If you’re gonna play the blues you have to somehow address the fact that you’re not Robert Johnson
Interview with Bill Orcutt in October’s Wire. (PDF)
October 31, 2011
PAL-006 Bill Orcutt 7” “A King or Something, Crossroads, The Man in the Mirror b/w Sad Michael, Solitary Habits, Die Then Come Back To Life” Edition of 200. Available from Volcanic Tongue, Fusetron or on Tour. 

PAL-006 Bill Orcutt 7”

“A King or Something, Crossroads, The Man in the Mirror b/w Sad Michael, Solitary Habits, Die Then Come Back To Life”

Edition of 200.

Available from Volcanic Tongue, Fusetron or on Tour. 

September 14, 2011

Is Junk Power Absolute?/Bill Orcutt’s Lament

(Source: vimeo.com)