Bill Orcutt | Palilalia Records
March 21, 2011
March 20, 2011
“ On A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Orcutt is at it again with a four-string guitar, this time bending blues and folk in ways they weren’t originally meant to go. Wrinkled riffs twist like wayward roots, punctured by thorny protrusions and unexpected potholes. Notes are warped and strangled, rhythms bruised and battered, all resulting in a sound at the outer edges of the Americana family tree… The traditions informing Orcutt’s playing, from those of pioneering bluesmen to John Fahey and other forward-thinking folk, are referenced in fleeting fragments, like images distorted and barely visible in a broken mirror.
Review by Adam Strohm in Dusted.
Bill Orcutt interviewed on Resonance FM. Adventures in Modern Music 3 March: This week we talk guitars with former Harry Pussy cohort, Bill Orcutt. He’ll be on the phone from his home in San Francisco discussing guitarists including Scott Dunbar, Carlos Montoya, James Blood Ulmer, Joseph Spence, Derek Bailey and Fred Gerlach, and we’ll be playing an extensive selection of his favourite recordings. 3 March, 9pm (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com. [Archive: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/5949/]

Bill Orcutt interviewed on Resonance FM.

Adventures in Modern Music 3 March: This week we talk guitars with former Harry Pussy cohort, Bill Orcutt. He’ll be on the phone from his home in San Francisco discussing guitarists including Scott Dunbar, Carlos Montoya, James Blood Ulmer, Joseph Spence, Derek Bailey and Fred Gerlach, and we’ll be playing an extensive selection of his favourite recordings. 3 March, 9pm (BST), 104.4 FM for Londoners, streamed live at resonancefm.com. [Archive: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/5949/]

February 17, 2011
“ And yet it’s pretty indisputable that he’s chanced on a sound that’s almost unique to him, and probably almost inimitable too. Very few guitarists manage something like that, and if these unmappable acres of Delta knotweed scare and infuriate any blooze trad-dads by the by, well I can’t imagine that keeping the Harry Pussy dude up all night with worry.
A New Way to Pay Old Debts reviewed on The Quietus
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“My Reckless Parts” from A New Way to Pay Old Debts.

Bill Orcutt interviewed on Terminal Boredom. After over a decade of silence following the breakup of Harry Pussy, guitarist Bill Orcutt re-emerged in 2009 with a self-released, limited-run 7-inch, “High-Waisted” b/w “Big Ass Nails,” followed shortly thereafter by a self-released LP, ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’, an art-damaged collection of improvisational acoustic guitar tracks. These releases were remarkable not only for their blunt force, but for the sheer aesthetic breakthroughs taking place.

Bill Orcutt interviewed on Terminal Boredom.

After over a decade of silence following the breakup of Harry Pussy, guitarist Bill Orcutt re-emerged in 2009 with a self-released, limited-run 7-inch, “High-Waisted” b/w “Big Ass Nails,” followed shortly thereafter by a self-released LP, ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’, an art-damaged collection of improvisational acoustic guitar tracks. These releases were remarkable not only for their blunt force, but for the sheer aesthetic breakthroughs taking place.