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Harry Pussy Verbal Circus It's All Meat Watt Wahoos KKYLP Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet

ex To Live And Shave In L.A., Trash Monkeys

Guitarist. Based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Former guitarist and founder of the noise/punk rock duo Harry Pussy (later a trio).
Runs Palilalia Records.

ALBUMS

Alan Licht & Bill Orcutt

At Land And Sea

2024, LP, Ltd, Palilalia Records

Chris Corsano, Bill Orcutt

Live At Big Ears

2024, LP, Palilalia Records,

Free Improvisation

Bill Orcutt, Okkyung Lee

Play Paris And Glasgow

2024, LP, Palilalia Records

Bill Orcutt, Danishta Rivero, Jacob Felix Heule

Soundtrack for New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

2024, LP, Palilalia Records

The Four Louies

2024, LP, Ltd, Fake Estates

Bill Orcutt / Steve Shelley / Ethan Miller

The Fucked Up Trio

2024, Cass, Album, Ltd, C50, Not On Label (Ethan Miller Self-Released)

How to Rescue Things

The Anxiety Of Symmetry

2023, LP, Album, Ltd, Fake Estates

Corsano* / Orcutt*

2023, LP, Album, Palilalia Records

Joe*, Tashi*, Bill*

A Mouth At Both Ends

2023, LP, Ltd, Palilalia Records

Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

The Flower School

Roasted Memories

2022, Cass, Ltd, Palilalia Records

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

2022, Cass, Ltd, Palilalia Records,

Experimental/Free Improvisation

The Entertainer B/W New Words From The OED

2022, LP, Comp, RE, Fake Estates

Tashi Dorji / Bill Orcutt

For Bill Who Will Be 100 In The Year 2062

Music For Four Guitars

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

Made Out Of Sound

A Mechanical Joey

Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano

100 Kinds Of Ass / King Size Coffin

Empire Of Hurt Feelings

2020, 3xCD, Ltd, Fake Estates

2020, Cass, Chocolate Monk

Real Feel Geel Reel

Reasons I Am Great

Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano

One Dollar Tops & Bottoms

2019, CDr, Comp, Fake Estates

2019, LP, Ltd, Fake Estates

New Words From The OED

2019, Lathe, LP, Fake Estates

The Dwarfs of East Agouza / Corsano* & Orcutt*

2019, Vinyl, Vinyl,

Avantgarde/Free Improvisation

Odds Against Tomorrow

Live At No Response

2018, Cass, Ltd, C25, No Response (2)

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

One Dollar Hits

2018, Cass, Fake Estates

Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano

A Neutron Bomb For Talent

2018, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano

Gucci Tops And Bottoms

2018, Cass, C30, Fake Estates,

Free Improvisation/Experimental

Neu Bros / OK Phone / Rural Beatles

2018, LP, Fake Estates

Corsano* & Orcutt*

2018, LP, Album, Palilalia Records,

Experimental/Free Improvisation

Bill Orcutt & Okkyung Lee

2017, Cass, Ltd, C40, Palilalia Records

An Account Of The Crimes Of Peter Thiel And His Subsequent Arrest, Trial And Execution

2017, LP, Fake Estates

A Visit With The Brooklyn Whale / Ghost Or Monster?

2017, Lathe, 7", Fake Estates

Live At Constellation

2017, Cass, Ltd, Num, Chocolate Monk

Bill Orcutt & Okkyung Lee

2016, 7", Palilalia Records

Bill Orcutt & Chinese Cookie Poets

2016, 7", Single, Ltd, Palilalia Records

Okkyung Lee / Bill Orcutt

Live At Cafe Oto

2016, LP, Album, Ltd, Otoroku

2016, LP, Fake Estates

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

Live At Various / Various Live

2016, LP, RE + LP, RE + Comp, Palilalia Records

Bill Orcutt and Michael Morley

Electric Guitar Duets

2015, Cass, C30, Palilalia Records

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

2015, Cass, Ltd, C30, Palilalia Records

2015, 2x7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

Bill Orcutt & Circuit Des Yeux

All That's Real

2015, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

The Guitar And Its Double

2015, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

2015, Cass, C60, Palilalia Records

Bill Orcutt, Circuit Des Yeux

Live in New York

2015, Cass, C30, Palilalia Records

Recent Chrome Exploits

2015, Cass, Fake Estates

Bill Orcutt & Jacob Felix Heule

Colonial Donuts

Thurston Moore & John Moloney, Caught On Tape / Bishop*, Orcutt*, Corsano*

Experimental/Psychedelic Rock/Free Improvisation

Why Four Strings?

2014, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

Two Weeks In Another Town

2014, Cass, Ltd, Palilalia Records

VDSQ - Solo Acoustic Volume Ten

2014, LP, Vin Du Select Qualitite, Thin Wrist Recordings

Turkey In The Straw

2014, 7", S/Sided, Ltd, Lucky Peach

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

Live At Various

2014, Cass, C40, Palilalia Records

Square Cunts / New Remorse

2014, 7", Ltd, Num, Ultra Eczema

Anthony Pasquarosa / Sir Richard Bishop* / Aaron Sheppard / Bill Orcutt

VDSQ Special Edition

2014, 4xLP, Comp, Ltd, Whi, Vin Du Select Qualitite, Thin Wrist Recordings

My Friends When I’m Not There

Daddy's Got A Spice Rack

Gerty Loves Pussy

Sir Richard Bishop* / Bill Orcutt

Road Stories (Kali)

Chris Corsano / Bill Nace // Bill Orcutt

Live At Partners

2013, 7", Ltd, Open Mouth, Hot Cars Warp Records

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

The Raw And The Cooked

2013, LP, W/Lbl, Palilalia Records

Twenty Five Songs

2013, 13x7" + Box, Comp, Ltd, Palilalia Records

I Remember Pedro Bell B/W Dylan In Buckskin

2013, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

Loren Connors* and Bill Orcutt

2013, 4xFile, MP3, 320, Natch

A History Of Every One

The Star Spangled Banner I B/W The Star Spangled Banner II

2012, 7", Palilalia Records

Why Does Everybody Love Free Music But Nobody Loves Free People?

All Tongues b/w Tender Bottoms

2011, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

Tic Fit b/w Bored With The Moon

2011, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

A King Or Something, Crossroads, The Man In The Mirror b/w Sad Michael, Solitary Habits, Die Then Come Back To Life

2011, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

Friese (16. Okt, Bremen)

2011, CDr, Karl Schmidt Verlag

How The Thing Sings

2010, 12", S/Sided, Ltd, Cle, Palilalia Records

High Waisted b/w Big Ass Nails

2009, 7", Ltd, Palilalia Records

A New Way To Pay Old Debts

"Solo CD" (Untitled)

1996, CD, Album, Audible Hiss

1990, Cass, Y-Not Tapes

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet

Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet

Four Guitars Live

Noise/Avantgarde

Brown Butterfly b/w Hoedown

Recorded In Miami 1989-1991

A Real New England Fuck Up

2017, LP, Album, Palilalia Records

To Live And Shave In L.A.

The Tall Ma'rib With Coalition Skin

2016, CDr, Album, Ltd, Karl Schmidt Verlag,

Noise/Avantgarde/Experimental

2012, 2xLP, Comp, Palilalia Records

Live In Austin, TX

2008, CDr, Sister Skull

You'll Never Play This Town Again

To Live And Shave In L.A.

God And Country Rally

2004, CD, Album, The Smack Shire

To Live And Shave In L.A.

1998, CD, EP, Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers

Let's Build A Pussy

What Was Music?

1996, CD, Comp, Siltbreeze, Siltbreeze

To Live And Shave In L.A.

Vedder Vedder Bedwetter

1995, CD, Album, Fifth Colvmn Records

To Live And Shave In L.A.

30-Minuten Männercreme

1993, Cass, C10, Chocolate Monk

Churchill's Hideaway - Music Generated By Geographical Seclusion And Beer

1993, CD, Comp, ESYNC Records

CD, Ltd, Smitten Recordings

APPEARANCES +

Why Four Strings?

2017, 22xFile, WAV, Comp, Palilalia Records,

Acoustic/Experimental/Noise/Avantgarde/Hardcore

Live At WFMU On Brian Turner's Show, 8/3/10

2010, 5xFile, MP3, 256, WFMU

Solo at Cafe Oto

2025, LP, Ltd, Red Eft Records

<> Book 3: JASSOM

2020, 4xCD, Album, Ltd, Box, The PSYKOMANTEUM

2020, Cass, Album, Num, Not On Label (The Overcasts Self-released)

Susan Howe & David Grubbs

Woodslippercounterclatter

Spoken Word/Field Recording/Experimental

Live From The Devil's Triangle Volume 15

2012, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, KFJC

Color In Absence Sound

1999, CD, Comp, Hell's Half Halo,

Noise/Avantgarde/Experimental

1998, CD, Album, Menlo Park Recordings

Drive-Thru Lover

1996, 7", Menlo Park Recordings

Kreamy 'Lectric Santa

Da Bronx Sity Chikn Machine Vol 2

1995, CD, Album, Starcrunch Records

Never Fear The Unfearable

1994, 7", EP, Comp, Starlight Furniture Co., Bananafish Magazine,

Avantgarde/Experimental

Cardinals At The Window

S U N F U N C A P I T A L

2023, 12", Comp, Mono, Ltd, Other Electricities

Three Lobed Recordings At 20: An Overview

2020, 34xFile, FLAC, Three Lobed Recordings,

Well Known Strangers

2020, 14x7", Ltd, Num, Unrock,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Avantgarde/Experimental

Zilveruitjes.03.2019

2019, Cass, Comp, Mixtape, C90, Ultra Eczema

XPLAYMIX 09 / 2016

2016, File, MP3, Mixtape, 320, Xplaylist,

Ambient/Leftfield/Post Rock/Krautrock/Experimental

2015, LP, Album + LP, Album + LP, Album + LP, Album + LP, Three Lobed Recordings, Three Lobed Recordings, Three Lobed Recordings, Three Lobed Recordings, Three Lobed Recordings,

Below The Radar Special Edition: Novas Frequências

2015, 18xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Wire Magazine

Editions Mego Family Of Labels At Donaufestival, 2014

2014, 8xFile, MP3, Comp, Editions Mego,

Abstract/Ambient/Drone/Experimental/Musique Concrète/House

Mind The Gap #94

2012, CD, Comp, Gonzo Circus

Music For Tom Carter

2012, 11xFile, FLAC, Comp, Not On Label

Imaginational Anthem, Vol. 5

2012, CD, Comp, Dig, Tompkins Square,

Imaginational Anthem: Essential Guitar Vol. 1-5

2012, 5xCD, Comp + CD, Album, Bon + Box, Comp, Ltd, Tompkins Square,

Circuit Des Yeux

NC Guest Mix#62

2012, File, MP3, Mixed, 160, No Conclusion

OBEY Convention V Compilation

2012, 14xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, OBEY Convention

Suoni Per Il Popolo

2011, CDr, Comp, Suoni Per Il Popolo,

Math Rock/Noise/Free Jazz/Drone/Post Rock/Experimental

RRR 500 (Various 500 Lock-Grooves By 500 Artists)

Alternative Rock/Noise/Spoken Word/Abstract/Drone/Hardcore/Industrial/Experimental