Recent blog posts about harry pussy from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/harrypussy/ 2013-06-19T02:35:16+01:00 text/html 2013-04-17T10:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4897720/wtf-wednesdays-bill-orcut-the-visible-bosom-2011/
It starts off with some relatively straightforward arpeggios, tensely shifting back and forth between two chords. And then...a kind of beautiful mayhem. Shorts phrases burst to life from all possible angles, stopping briefly for moments of resonance, only to careen off in a different direction. As with most of the music in this series, this is some difficult listening. My [...]]]> text/html 2012-09-30T18:07:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4541783/september-2012/
Ik typte in september meer dan drieduizend woorden op mrbungle.nl, over Mike Khoury & Ben Hall , Expo 70 , Orphan Fairytale , Majutsu No Niwa , Reines dAngleterre & lg en Christine Abdelnour . Tussendoor ook nog even het Incubate festival bezocht. Dan mag je met recht zeggen dat de herfst stormachtig is begonnen op het gebied van muziek; de releases vlogen mij om de oren. Zoals gewoonlijk stip ik die, tot nu toe aan de aandacht ontsnapt, nog even kort aan. [...]]]> text/html 2011-12-22T17:34:04+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3946139/jaarlijst-2011-9/
9. Bill Orcutt How The Thing Sings Wanneer ik de hoes van deze geweldige lp vasthoud, kan ik zelden een grijns onderdrukken. Ik mijn gedachten zijn namelijk enkele Stevie Ray Vaughan -fans gigantisch geschrokken nadat ze How The Thing Sings blind kochten op basis van de verzameling plectrums van hun held op de cover. Ze hadden natuurlijk beter moeten weten, toen ze de naam Bill Orcutt lazen. Bekend van de inmiddels opgeheven noiserockact Harry Pussy weet hij ook solo ieder haartje recht overeind te krijgen. [...]]]> text/html 2011-10-15T10:05:10+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3791986/bill-orcutt-how-the-thing-sings-editions-mego/
the things changed. the things the same. when he first wandered in from the desert with his buggered four string acoustic, bill orcutt kinda took us by surprise. theres less sense of unplugged shock this time round. and while its a similar furrow being ploughed (still just orcutt, his guitar and straight-to-mic recording) its all a bit less... claustrophobic. the first records automatisms remains in place, that sense of switching off and letting fingers do the talking. instinctual aural explorations, yeah. battles between the conscious and subconscious. an attempt to liberate and be liberated, to unshackle and let [...]]]> text/html 2011-09-18T18:36:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3729120/bill-orcutt-is-junk-power-absolute-bill-orcutts-lament/
new record's out on editions mego . and it's bloody good. Filed under: music stuff , video Tagged: bill orcutt , harry pussy , music , music video]]> text/html 2011-05-23T18:45:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3462245/bill-orcutt-live-on-east-village-radio/
Filed under: music stuff , video Tagged: bill orcutt , east village radio , harry pussy , live , music , music video]]> text/html 2010-04-15T00:53:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2477809/podcast-curious-beast-45/
thinking that number 4 was lost in the mists of time thanks to my tardiness in posting it, crayola went ahead and did another. and be thankful he has - this one is dedicated to the cover version and his selection is pretty damn special. ::: 14 iced bears - coming down (originally by the united states of america) ::: pale saints - feel from the sun (originally by opal) ::: the shrubs - another age (originally by phil ochs) ::: terry & jerry - bias binding (originally by yeah yeah noh) ::: polysics - my sharona (originally [...]]]> text/html 2010-04-06T15:48:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2465629/podcast-curious-beast-4/
finally a new podcast, though crayola actually recorded this last halloween - it's just taken me this long to get it online - prompted by the fact that he's just sent me another. so look out for that in a week. meanwhile, this one is brimming with ace tunes, as always. ::: labor exchange band - anti-dam militia's march ::: birthday party - nick the stripper ::: summer cats - fulton girls ::: harry pussy - 1986 ::: yat-kha - karangailyg kara hovaa ::: host - young and bulletproof ::: international karate plus - give it [...]]]> text/html 2010-03-27T11:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2437498/march-27-bill-orcutt-peter-kolovos-nondor-nevaiben/
Los Angeles just got weirder-with the triumphant return of Nancarrow-completist Nondor Nevai and unmistakably mesmerising sets by L.A. Record fave Peter Kolovos, this will be anight to remember. And we haven't even talked about how Bill Orcutt hasn't played L.A. in ten years! At five bucks, you'll never regret the Happy Meal you could have [...]]]> text/html 2010-01-14T17:58:16+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2258776/bill-orcutt-a-new-way-to-pay-old-debts-palilalia/
hands up everyone whos read les champs magntiques . yes, you at the back. see, this is what im thinking about untuning into, through and out of this. whats lubing up my brain sac and fingering my neurons is the correlations squiggling between this record and automatism. you know, the expressive technique used by the surrealists. you know, breton anddal and arp and all those awkward funny buggers. you know where you switch off and let yr fingers do the talking. you know. mm? not that the whole endeavour is entirely random or irrational or incidental. the [...]]]> text/html 2009-06-04T00:31:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1770592/harry-pussy-pussy-control/
Harry Pussy had a way with words. Their 1994 debut album had what was perhaps the single greatest tasteless title of all time, In An Emergency You Can Shit On A Puerto Rican Whore . You really can't do better than that. Never mind "in case of emergency pull cord"; no, in Harry Pussy's world when an emergency strikes, Puerto Rican whores will be officially provided. It's a concept that is just as offensive as their music, a primal, messy noise produced with rock instruments. Not rock music, not at all. There [...]]]> text/html 2009-04-30T22:33:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1696354/harry-pussy-in-an-emergency-you-can-shit-on/
Now-defunct Miami-based noise band's first 123 release on Siltbreeze. It was also known simply as Harry Pussy , but the AKA title is so much more renowned. The band was active throughout the '90s and featured a guitarist and a drummer. For a while, there was a third musician. I think there was an accordion for a while, too. They're considered one of the more influential US noise acts, paving the way for Lightning Bolt and others. Shockingly, the band's frontman was a woman. A frontwoman who screams and drums! Adris Hoyos, much like ME, is a [...]]]> text/html 2008-11-10T21:14:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1346030/the-outsiders-vol-21/
Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden that may otherwise pass by unnoticed. This installment's virtual milk crate contains Harry Pussy . It makes sense hitting Vol. 21 of the Outsiders by going backwards in time to Harry Pussy, a band (and Bananafish staple) who influenced me (and a generation of noisemakers -- Magik Markers, Wolf Eyes, etc .) and trained my ears when I wasn't [...]]]> text/html 2007-05-23T11:01:24+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/525948/screech-skronk-smash-harry-pussy-live/
Ah, yes. This takes me back In the mid 90s, Harry Pussy were one of the pre-eminent purveyors of free-punk scream-n-skronk, and here is a video of them doing what...]]>