Roulette presents a special two-night installation centered around legendary guitarist Bill Orcutt and performers/collaborators from his eclectic Palilalia record label. Night one includes the premiere of new work by The Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish), solo guitar sets by Chuck Roth and Shane Parish, and the US premiere performance of Orcutt’s composition “How to Rescue Things.”

SCHEDULE
8pm Shane Parish: solo guitar, music from his most recent Palilalia album.
8:40pm Kris Gruda: solo guitar, music from his 2023 Palilalia LP.
9:00pm Bill Orcutt: guitar, US Premiere of music from his 2024 record How to Rescue Things
9:40pm INTERMISSION (Music: “Last Days” Bill Orcutt Fake Estates 2026)
10pm Chuck Roth vocals, guilar, music from his 2025 album watergh0st songs
10:30pm Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, premiere of new work
Shane Parish guitar
Ava Mendoza guitar
Wendy Eisenberg guitar
Bill Orcutt guitar

“The San Francisco-based guitarist has been on one of the great creative tears in his chosen instrument’s vaunted history.” –Pitchfork

“Quite awe-inspiring, and unlike anything else I can think of.” –The Wire Magazine

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

San Francisco guitarist and composer Bill Orcutt has been described as “thrillingly original” (Will Ainsley, Bandcamp Daily), “a go-for-broke guitar improviser,” (Ben Ratliff, New York Times) “creating a new language” (Mark Masters, Pitchfork) whose playing would “make Derek Bailey do a double-take” (Lars Gotrich, NPR). Orcutt tours actively, appearing at festivals worldwide, including Rewire (The Hague), Presences Electronique (Paris), Jazz em Agosto (Lisbon), Goner Fest (Memphis), Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville), Big Ears (Knoxville), Music Unlimited (Wels), Le Guess Who? (Utrecht), Nouveau Festival du Centre Pompidou (Paris), Unsound (Krakow), a Maida Vale session for BBC 3 (London) and a Tiny Desk concert for NPR.