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Harry Pussy was an American band from , active from 1992 to 1997. The main members were on guitar and vocals and Adris Hoyos on drums and vocals. Other members included Mark Feehan on guitar, later replaced by Dan Hosker. They recorded primarily for the label.
The often-violent music of Harry Pussy is still well-regarded and highly influential in the noise and noise rock scenes. Bill Orcutt’s guitar playing was almost exclusively atonal and performed on a four-string guitar. Adris Hoyos’ unrestricted, freeform vocalizations and drumming have been noted as an influence by and by Heather Leigh.
Following the dissolution of Harry Pussy, Hoyos began playing sporadically in improv groups and Orcutt focused on film-making. Bill Orcutt started playing live and releasing albums again in 2009.
15 Song 7″ EP of studio recordings from 1993.
“Somewhere between the first and second Harry Pussy singles, Adris and I worked up a set’s worth of 30-second ‘songs.’ I doubt we ever played the whole thing live, but we did record it over a couple of nights at Rat’s studio around the corner from our Michigan Ave apartment on Miami Beach. Our occasional bandmate, Ian Steinberg, a teenage accordionist whose mom dropped him off for the session, showed up on the second night to contribute vocals and fuzz accordion on several tracks. Of all the songs recorded, only ‘HP Superstar’ was ever released, on 1995’s ‘What Was Music?’ compilation, though ‘No Hey’, ‘Youth Problem’ and ‘Prelude’ appeared in other versions elsewhere. Live renditions of some of this set are also captured on the ‘Live in Chapel Hill, 1993’ single.”
