Name: Bill Orcutt's "The Four Louies" + Gumby's Junk
Start: 2025-05-31T20:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-31T23:00:00-07:00
Location: 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, United States

Bill Orcutt's "The Four Louies" + Gumby's Junk

**Bill Orcutt’s** *The Four Louies* brings together two masterpieces of 20th century Farfisa minimalism – The Kingsmen’s “Louie Louie” and Steve Reich’s “Four Organs” – through a head-spinning series of cut-up segments accompanied by maracas and a rhythm section, transcribed from the digital file for live performance. San Francisco art rockers **Gumby’s Junk** open with their circus math punk genre mishmash.
Although known best as a guitarist, **Bill Orcutt** has a prolific sideline using digital software to create head-spinning process music where mathematics are no less important than sound itself. But he began cross-pollinating those interests with his 2024 album The Four Louies, an improbable, inventive collision of two landmark 20th century works built around the organ.
Oakland based art rock band **Gumby’s Junk** began in 2018 as a complete mishap. Pushing musical surrealism to its limits with outrageous harmonies, circus-fast riffs, and genre mishmash, they have been described as oblique, colorful madness and like you are running fast and looking at the ground. After you listen, you’ll know that when they ring the bell, you get a treat.