BILL GUITAR QUARTET ORCUTT - HausLive 4 [Cassette]

Format: Cassette, C60 - Packaged w/ A 2-Sided 5-Panel J-Card.
Catalogue No.: CS-HAUSMO-148
Barcode: 634457209947
Release Date: 09 May 2025
Genre: Alternative Rock

Hausu Mountain continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music. On HausLive 4, we rewind the clock approximately one year to May 3rd, 2024 at Constellation, where the all-star Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish) made their barn-burning Chicago debut. The series channels the spirit of the informal bootlegging and tape trading of audience recordings as pioneered by the community surrounding the Grateful Dead, honing in on the raw live energy and in-the-moment emotions that can make any show stand out in the stream of time. HausLive 4 catches the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet in a sublime state of tour-hardened synergy with one another as they tear through the four-string guitar compositions that Orcutt wrote for his album Music for Four Guitars (Palilalia Records, 2022) with dialed-in fingers-on-fretboard precision, while also letting those songs evolve into flights of improvisation and extend into solo and duo passages led by each of the four guitarists. As Orcutt says on tape during one of the show’s interludes, “that record is thirty minutes; this show is an hour, so we’re improvising.” The resulting free-wheeling moments combine with the rigidity of Orcutt’s meticulous four-guitar compositions to form a program of music that draws power in equal measure from the forces of chance and discipline.

A1. A different view  A2. Seen from above  A3. At a distance  A4. In the rain  A5. Out of the corner of the eye  A6. Or from behind  A7. Only at dusk  A8. Banter & intros  A9. Bill solo >  B1. On the horizon  B2. Barely driving  B3. Banter & tuning  B4. In profile  B5. From below  B6. Or head on