Bill Nace is an American

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guitarist and visual artist, from New Jersey. Nace has collaborated with

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, Steve Gunn,

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, Okkyung Lee, and

Kim Gordon Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, Califor ...

. With Gordon, Nace is part of the experimental electric guitar duo

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. 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) * '' Through a Room'' ( Drag City, 2022) With

* '' Coming Apart'' (Matador, 2013) * ''Live Hassle'' (Feeding Tube, 2016) * '' No Waves'' (Matador, 2016) * '' The Switch'' (Matador, 2018) * ''Body/Dilloway/Head'' (with

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; Three Lobed Recordings, 2021) 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

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

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* ''Branches'' (Otoruko / Open Mouth, 2025)

As sideman

* Susan Alcorn, ''Live at Rotunda'' (Open Mouth, 2019) *

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, ''Mystic Beings'' (Open Mouth, 2018) * Myriam Gendron, Ma délire: Song of love, lost & found (2021) *

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, ''

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'' (2024) *

, ''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) *

, ''Last Notes'' (Open Mouth, 2013) *

Wally Shoup Wally Shoup (August 9, 1944–March 5, 2024) was an American jazz alto saxophone, alto saxophonist, painter, and author. Based in Seattle, Washington (U.S. state), Washington, since 1985, Shoup was a mainstay of that city's improvised music sce ...

, ''One End to the Other'' (Open Mouth, 2015)

References

External links

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*http://openmouthrecords.blogspot.com/
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