synffBill Orcutt is a San Francisco guitarist and composer whose visceral style fuses raw blues, punk aggression, and the liberated structures of free improvisation.
Emerging from the 1990s noise-rock outfit Harry Pussy, he has spent decades refining an instantly recognizable approach defined by…
13 roots·6 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped Bill Orcutt; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Cecil Taylor, Derek Bailey, Fred McDowell, Glenn Gould + 9 more
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