Music for Four Guitars

by Bill Orcutt

Music for Four Guitars cover art

The veteran noise rock guitarist crafts a fascinating, minimalist experiment utilizing only a four-track cassette recorder. The album consists of intricately layered, repetitive melodic phrases—all performed strictly by Orcutt—that overlap and lock into hypnotic, totalist grooves evocative of Steve Reich but played with the jagged tone of a Fender Stratocaster.

Genres

  • Totalism

Tracklist

  1. A different view
  2. Two things close together
  3. At a distance
  4. In profile
  5. Or from behind
  6. Seen from above
  7. On the horizon
  8. Glimpsed while driving
  9. Only at dusk
  10. Barely visible
  11. Out of the corner of the eye
  12. In the rain
  13. From below
  14. Or head on