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Bill Orcutt + Okkyung Lee

Date

29 September 2016

Venue

Glad Cafe

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Okkyung Lee (a virtuosic, South Korean-born cellist) and Bill Orcutt (an idiosyncratic, Southern-folk-rooted guitarist) are two boundary-pushing figures in contemporary avant-garde and improvised music. Their collaboration centre on intense, uncompromising improvisational interplay, blending Lee’s aggressive extended techniques with Orcutt’s jagged, angular guitar riffs.

This show follows the release of their debut album together, which was recorded in 2015 in London’s Cafe OTO.

Okkyung Lee

Okkyung Lee is a cellist, composer, and improviser who moves freely between of artistic disciples and contingencies. Since moving to New York in 2000 she has worked in disparate contexts as a solo artist and collaborator with creators in a wide range of disciplines. A native of South Korea, Lee has taken a broad array […]

Bill Orcutt

Former guitarist and founder of the duo Harry Pussy (later a trio) Bill Orcutt’s sound is a stuttered reimagining of blues guitar. One can hear familiar Southern folk scales between Orcutt’s jagged solo acoustic phrases, pulling and pushing melodies into unresolved fragments that eventually come unmoored in vast and satisfying note-torrents.