Bill Nace
Musical artist
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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]
Occupations
- Musician
- record label owner
InstrumentsGuitar, Taishōgoto
Labels
- Open Mouth
- 8mm
- Ecstatic Peace!
- Matador
- Feeding Tube
- Ultra Eczema
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| Genres | Avant-garde jazz,[1] free jazz,[1] experimental[2] |
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| Instruments | Guitar, Taishōgoto |
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| Member of | Body/Head |
| Website | billnace |
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.
Discography
- Too Dead for Dreaming (8mm, 2010)
- Both (Drag City, 2020)[5]
- Through a Room (Drag City, 2022)
With Body/Head
- Coming Apart (Matador, 2013)
- Live Hassle (Feeding Tube, 2016)
- No Waves (Matador, 2016)
- The Switch (Matador, 2018)[4]
- Body/Dilloway/Head (with Aaron Dilloway; Three Lobed Recordings, 2021)[7]
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)
With Evan Parker
- Branches (Otoruko / Open Mouth, 2025)
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)
