Bill Orcutt

Bill Orcutt is a guitarist extraordinaire, composer, and one restless soul whose career has had a few turns over the years. He started out as a member of the experimental noise trio Harry Pussy in the '90s, which led to a career of guitar centric music that borrows from blues and folk, cast in a droney style and with an otherworldly presentation that borders on the avant-garde. He has been releasing a series of recordings (except for the break he took from music in the '00s) that come across as either instrumental exploration disguised as soul-searching, or the other way around. The core of his music is improvisational and it is built around his masterful and technically sophisticated guitar work, where he can get quite discordant at times, but always maintains an essential hypnotic quality.