Mageløs instrumentalmusik for firedobbelt elguitar

Det risler ned ad rygraden, når guitarpioneren Bill Orcutt ømt tager den gamle spade op til genovervejelse med sin skønhedssøgende og postpunkede guitarkvartet. Kompositionerne slynger sig mellem repetitive figurer og medrivende rytmik i tråd med guitar-frontløbere som Glenn Branca og Rhys Chatham. Kompositionerne har vink til minimalisme, jazz, avantgarde og noise - ligesom fans af postrock og indie kan finde kroge at gribe fat i. I fire årtier har Bill Orcutt skabt mageløs og uprætentiøs guitarmusik, og nu kan hans vilde værk endelig opleves live på en enestående turné, der totalt har vundet publikums hjerter på de tidligere stop.

Den San Francisco-baserede guitarist og komponist Bill Orcutt præsenterer sit seneste projekt, en elektrisk guitarkvartet, som opfører musikken fra hans mageløse 2022-album, "Music for Four Guitars." Pitchfork har beskrevet albummet som “a rigidly structured quartet that weaves tiny rhythmic phrases into expansive tapestries, drawing on the tenets of early minimalism and New York guitar groups like Glenn Branca Ensemble.”

Med en stjernespækket gruppe af guitarister inklusive Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza og Shane Parish vil ensemblet præsentere numrene i en udvidet liveformat, der kombinerer fint detaljeret komposition med grænseløs improvisation.

Bill Orcutt har en baggrund som guitarist og stifter af den navnkundige 90’er-gruppe Harry Pussy, og hans lyd er en abrupt genfortolkning af bluesguitar, som sammenvæver melodiske linjer og kantede indgreb ind i et tæt landskab af amerikansk primitivisme, outsider-jazz og en nedbarberet nytænkning af guitarens muligheder.

Orcutts skarpe lyd er fuldstændig unik og øjeblikkeligt genkendelig. Han sammenlignes lige så ofte med avantgarde-komponister som landlige bluesmusikere. New York Times har kaldt ham en "powerful musician ... a go-for-broke guitar improviser," og har beskrevet hans lyd som "articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance."

In English

San Francisco-based guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt presents his latest project, an all-electric Guitar Quartet performing the music from his 2022 LP “Music for Four Guitars,” an album which Pitchfork describes as “a rigidly structured quartet that weaves tiny rhythmic phrases into expansive tapestries, drawing on the tenets of early minimalism and New York guitar groups like Glenn Branca Ensemble.” Featuring an all-star team of guitarists Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish, the ensemble will present the music in an expanded live format that will combine intricate composition with no holds barred improvisation.

Bill Orcutt is the former guitarist and founder of the notorious 90’s group Harry Pussy, and his sound is a stuttered reimagining of blues guitar, weaving looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar.

Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster (both stripped of two of their strings, as has been Orcutt’s custom since 1985), Orcutt’s jagged sound is utterly unique and instantly recognizable, compared with equal frequency to avant-garde composers and rural bluesmen. The New York Times has called him a "powerful musician... a go-for-broke guitar improviser," and described his sound as "articulated sprays of arpeggiated chords and dissonance."