Bill Nace

Bill Nace
Performing and recording artist Bill Nace standing at the base of a trail surrounded by trees and next to a dog
Background information
GenresAvant-garde jazz,[1] free jazz,[1] experimental[2]
Occupations
  • Musician
  • record label owner
Instrument(s)Guitar, Taishōgoto
Labels
Member ofBody/Head
Websitebillnace.bandcamp.com

Bill Nace is an American experimental guitarist and visual artist, from New Jersey.[1] Nace has collaborated with Joe McPhee,[1] Steve Gunn,[1] Thurston Moore,[1] Yoko Ono,[3] Okkyung Lee,[1] and Kim Gordon.[4] With Gordon, Nace is part of the experimental electric guitar duo Body/Head.[5][6]

He currently runs a label called Open Mouth Records, out of Philadelphia. He is also a prolific visual artist; drawing, designing various shirts, album covers, and flyers. [7]

Discography

With Body/Head

With X.O.4

  • All Alien Part One (Open Mouth, 2004)
  • X.O.4 (Audiobot 2005)
  • Cataracts (Ecstatic Peace!, 2007)
  • Lost Signals (Ultra Eczema, 2007)
  • Exile (Open Mouth, 2010)

With Paul Flaherty

  • Untitled (Ecstatic Peace!, 2008)
  • An Airless Field (Ecstatic Peace!, 2010)
  • No, the Sun (Open Mouth, 2011)
  • Broken Staircase (Wet Paint Music 2011)

As sideman

  • Susan Alcorn, Live at Rotunda (Open Mouth, 2019)
  • Chris Corsano, Mystic Beings (Open Mouth, 2018)
  • Myriam Gendron, Ma délire: Song of love, lost & found (2021)
  • Myriam Gendron, Mayday (2024)
  • Kim Gordon, Sound for Andy Warhol's KISS (Andy Warhol Museum 2019)
  • Okkyung Lee, Live at Stone (Open Mouth, 2015)
  • Samara Lubelski, Samara Lubelski & Bill Nace (Open Mouth, 2018)
  • Samara Lubelski, Live in Belchertown (Open Mouth, 2019)
  • Joe McPhee, Last Notes (Open Mouth, 2013)
  • Wally Shoup, One End to the Other (Open Mouth, 2015)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Masters, Marc (May 25, 2020). "Bill Nace: Both". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  2. ^ "Bill Nace". Talk House. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  3. ^ "Bill Nace :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview". Aquarium Drunkard. May 1, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  4. ^ a b Cea, Max (July 11, 2018). "Kim Gordon and Bill Nace Are Having Their Twin Peaks Moment". GQ. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  5. ^ a b Meyer, Bill (March 20, 2020). "Bill Nace uses his guitar to make unguitarlike sounds on Both". Chicago Reader. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  6. ^ Bienstock, Richard (July 16, 2018). "Body/Head: Kim Gordon and Bill Nace Talk New Genre-Defying Noise Project". Revolver. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  7. ^ *https://www.discogs.com/artist/610465-Bill-Nace
  8. ^ Breihan, Tom (September 13, 2021). "Kim Gordon's Body/Head Team With Aaron Dilloway For Collaborative Album, Share New Song "Goin' Down"". Stereogum. Retrieved September 14, 2021.


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