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Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the fruits of our latest special collaboration session with eclectic American guitarist Bill Orcutt joining fractured-garage trio Still House Plants in the Radio 3 studio.

Since beginning to play guitar as a teenager, Bill Orcutt has spent his adult life exploring the instrument’s sonic range. He was initially struck by blues - his first, seminal source of inspiration being Muddy Waters - before moving on to explore hardcore punk, free jazz and eventually noise with the Miami outfit Harry Pussy, formed with the drummer Adris Hoyos in 1992. After a hiatus lasting over ten years, Orcutt returned to the music scene in 2009 and his most recent project is an all-electric guitar quartet with Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish.

For this Late Junction session, Bill Orcutt is joined by Still House Plants, a three-piece formed in 2013, originally based in Glasgow but now an integral part of the experimental underground scene in London. Guitarist Finlay Clark, drummer David Kennedy, and vocalist Jess Hickie-Kallenbach create music full of space and grit in which repetitive patterns break off and silences are filled by Jessica’s expressive singing. They are currently working on their third studio album.

Elsewhere in the show, atmospheric bleeps and bloops from Suffolk modular synthesist Loula York, strange percussive soundscapes conjured by Santaka, a project between Lithuanian artist Manfredas and drummer/producer Marijus Aleksa, and solo laments on saxophone recorded to tape by musician Lao Dan out of Shenzhen's Old Heaven Books.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3