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Titled after a line from Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans and inspired by the scholarship of Elijah Waldand Eric Lott,  \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA History of Everyone i\u003c\/span\u003es a bold re-writing of an important historical thread, an interpretation of a lost text and a bewildering extension upon Orcutt's already singular language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1151010518\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/billorcutt.bandcamp.com\/album\/a-history-of-every-one\"\u003eA History Of Every One by Bill Orcutt\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39821744898118,"sku":"1","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/4210\/3622\/products\/Bill_abrief_c98a980d-dcff-4110-8bce-d41c6b3945fc.jpg?v=1645101142"},{"product_id":"massimo-pupillo-alexandre-babel-caspar-brotzmann-live-at-the-candy-bomber-studios-vol-1-lp-180-gram-dl-code","title":"Massimo Pupillo, Alexandre Babel, Caspar Brötzmann: Live At The Candy Bomber Studios, Vol.1 LP (180 gram + DL code)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePower trio of bass player Massimo Pupillo(Zu, Laniakea), drummer Alexandre Babel (Sudden Infant) and Caspar Brötzmann on guitar. As the title \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLive At The Candy Bomber Studios, Vol.1\u003c\/i\u003e indicates, this album is the first cut from an inspired recording meeting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaw energy with full focus; three instrumentalists, at the peak of their skills, blend noise rock, drone, and improvisation into two relentless, epic pieces. The line-up consists of Massimo Pupillo, bass player in Zu, Laniakea, and countless other constellations and drummer Alexandre Babel who is a prolific player in the experimental\/contemporary field (artistic director of Swiss percussion group Eklekto, member of Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and soloist who has performed with Otomo Yoshihide and Keiji Haino) and a steady member of the noise band Sudden Infant. And last but not least there's Caspar Brötzmann on guitar who has gained high reputation as one of the most radical guitarists around, admired by acclaimed artists like Thurston Moore (\"\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eprobably one of the best guitarists I've ever met!\u003c\/i\u003e\") and Stephen O'Malley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA powerful unit, recorded live in the studio by Ingo Krauss who had already worked with Brötzmann on the Caspar Brötzmann Massaker albums \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDer Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKoksofen\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). 180 gram vinyl; Includes download code.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KARLRECORDS (GERMANY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39824637657158,"sku":"1","price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/4210\/3622\/products\/pupillo.jpg?v=1645162822"},{"product_id":"bill-orcutt-s-t-lp","title":"Bill Orcutt: S\/T LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"For those not following Bill Orcutt's drift into increasingly ear-friendly orbits in his recent live sets, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBill Orcutt\u003c\/i\u003e -- his first solo electric studio album -- shocks with its space and sensitivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn this eponymous record, Orcutt mines the expansiveness and sustain possible on the electric guitar, letting notes spin out and decay at the edge of feedback. His pachinko-parlor pacing, marked by unraveling clockspring accelerandos crashing into unexpectedly suspended tones, is still in evidence. But here, his developing melodicism maps a near-contemplative mental realm, orbiting St. Joan-era Loren Connors more than the cascading treble clatter of his duo LPs with Chris Corsano and others. From the first notes of Ornette Coleman's \"Lonely Woman\", there's a lucidity and slow-burning lyricism that make Orcutt's plunges into barbed-wire fingerpicking all the more striking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile no one's about to mistake Orcutt for Jim Hall, you could probably play this for your jazzbo friends (should you be unlucky enough to have them) without raising any eyebrows. Orcutt's track selection mirrors his obsession with American popular song in its most banal manifestations, as radically reimagined via acoustic guitar on a variety of releases, including 2013's exhaustive \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwenty Five Songs\u003c\/i\u003e 7\" box set, and the Editions Mego album \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA History of Every One\u003c\/i\u003e (EMEGO 173CD\/LP, 2013). Many of the songs from those two releases are here -- but stretched into new arrangements that explore the upper regions of the guitar neck (hitherto unexplorable on his shakily-intonated acoustic Kay), and lighting up new corners of each arrangement with a sensitivity born from years of reinterpretation. The result is a languid, freeform drift through Orcutt's internal cosmos into galaxies unknown to their original interpreters -- and occasionally, Orcutt himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost striking is \"White Christmas\", its careening low-register melodies crashing into complex chords that transcend Orcutt's primitive four-string fretboard. Orcutt's original compositions are equally striking. One of them -- \"The World Without Me\" -- is unique to this album, and notable for its trebly flurry of Clapton-esque 12th-fret drizzle. \"O Platitudes!\" by contrast, spins ever-faster in the cadence of a hand-cranked music box, before grinding to a near halt, its higher-key electricity standing in for the moaning vocalizations on Orcutt's acoustic rendition as heard on his 2014 VDSQ LP. With its deep-space beauty, harmonic complexity, and dark dissonance, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBill Orcutt\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning landmark in Orcutt's form-destroying trajectory.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForced Exposure\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PALILALIA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39824662200390,"sku":"2","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/4210\/3622\/products\/Bill.jpg?v=1645163420"},{"product_id":"chris-corsano-bill-orcutt-made-out-of-sound-cd","title":"Chris Corsano \u0026 Bill Orcutt: Made out of Sound CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Sadly, many will hear Chris Corsano \u0026amp; Bill Orcutt's latest LP, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMade Out of Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, as 'not-jazz,' though it would be more aptly described as 'not-not-jazz.' In a better world, it would warrant above-the-fold reviews in Downbeat, or an appearance on David Sanborn's late-night show (if someone would only give it back to him).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore likely, we can hope for a haiku review on Byron Coley's Twitter timeline to sufficiently connect the various improvised terrains trodden by this long-time duo -- but if you've been able to listen past the overmodulated icepick fidelity of Harry Pussy, it should surprise you not an iota that Orcutt's style is rooted as much in the fractal melodies of Trane and Taylor as it is in Delta syrup or Tin Pan Alley glitz. A\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003es for Corsano, well, it may seem daft to call this particular record 'jazz' (because duh, it has a drummer), but to me Corsano is beyond jazz, almost beyond music, his ambidextrous, octopoid technique grappling many stylistic levers and spraying a torrent of light from every direction. Corsano's ferocity has elevated many 'mere' improv records to transcendence, but here he's crafted his polyrhythms within more narrative channels, bringing to mind his 'mannered' playing in the lamented Flower-Corsano duo. It's not 'groove' playing precisely, but it follows many grooves simultaneously, much like Orcutt's own melodic musings -- which is why they're so naturally lock-in-key here. Which maybe makes it all the more surprising that \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMade Out of Sound\u003c\/i\u003e was in fact recorded in different rooms on different coasts at different times, and stitched together by Orcutt on his desktop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCorsano recorded the drums in Ithaca, NY, and (as Orcutt states), 'I didn't edit them at all. I overdubbed two guitar tracks, panned left\/right. I'd listen to the drums a couple times, pick a tuning, then improvise a part, thinking of the first track as backing and the second as the 'lead', though those are pretty fluid terms. I was watching the waveforms as I was recording, so I could see when a crescendo was coming or when to bring it down.' Fluidity ties the tracks together. With a little more groove and a little less around-the-beat maneuvering, one could almost hear the boiling harmonic layers as Miles-oid in 'Man Carrying Thing,' but with new-found Sharrockian modalities, Corsano accentuating the tumbling nature of the falling notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Sharrock vein continues with 'How to Cook a Wolf,' its Blind Willie-esque melodic simplicity and repetition extrapolated 360-style in a repetitive descending riff that falls into Cippolina-isms (by way of Verlaine) until the end crashes upon the shore. Much like Orcutt's last solo album, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOdds Against Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e (PAL 056CD\/LP, 2019), there's a gentler, almost pastoral flow to some tracks ('Some Tennessee Jar,' 'A Port in Air,' 'Thirteen Ways of Looking') that calls to mind the mixolydian swamplands of Lonnie Liston Smith -- but unlike \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOdds\u003c\/i\u003e, other tracks ('The Thing Itself') smash that same lyricism into overdriven, multi-dimensional melodic clumps that push several vector envelopes at once in an \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInterstellar Space\u003c\/i\u003e vein. With the help of Corsano, Orcutt has managed to slither even further out of the noise\/improv pigeonhole lazy listeners\/writers keep trying to shove him into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking at the back cover of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMade Out of Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, we should not see Orcutt hurling a guitar into the air with post-punk bravado, Corsano toiling behind him in the engine room -- we should witness an instrument levitating from his hands, rising on invisible major-key tendrils of melody, fired by percussion, spiraling into an invisible event horizon...\" --Tom Carter\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PALILALIA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39824686350406,"sku":"2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/4210\/3622\/products\/corsano_orcutt.jpg?v=1645163949"},{"product_id":"luggage-happiness-lp","title":"Luggage: Happiness LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChicago has always had a large contingent of musicians operating on the less-is-more principle. 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