{{Infobox musical artist | name = Bill Nace | image = Bill Nace 2022 promo photo from Drag City.jpg | alt = Performing and recording artist Bill Nace standing at the base of a trail surrounded by trees and next to a dog | caption = | birth_name = | birth_place = | genre = Avant-garde jazz,<ref name="masters">{{Cite web|last=Masters|first=Marc|title=Bill Nace: Both|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bill-nace-both/|work=Pitchfork|date=May 25, 2020|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> free jazz,<ref name="masters"/> experimental<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bill Nace|url=https://www.talkhouse.com/artist/bill-nace/|work=Talk House|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> | occupation = {{hlist|Musician|record label owner}} | label = {{hlist|Open Mouth|8mm|Ecstatic Peace!|Matador|Feeding Tube|Ultra Eczema}} | instrument = Guitar, Taishōgoto | current_member_of = Body/Head | website = {{URL|billnace.bandcamp.com}} }} '''Bill Nace''' is an American experimental guitarist and visual artist, from New Jersey.<ref name="masters"/> Nace has collaborated with Joe McPhee,<ref name="masters"/> Steve Gunn,<ref name="masters"/> Thurston Moore,<ref name="masters"/> Yoko Ono,<ref name="ad">{{Cite web|title=Bill Nace :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview|url=https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/05/01/bill-nace-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/|work=Aquarium Drunkard|date=May 1, 2020|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> Okkyung Lee,<ref name="masters"/> and Kim Gordon.<ref name="cea">{{Cite web|last=Cea|first=Max|title=Kim Gordon and Bill Nace Are Having Their Twin Peaks Moment|url=https://www.gq.com/story/kim-gordon-and-bill-nace-are-having-their-twin-peaks-moment|work=GQ|date=July 11, 2018|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> With Gordon, Nace is part of the experimental electric guitar duo Body/Head.<ref name="meyer">{{Cite web|last=Meyer|first=Bill|title=Bill Nace uses his guitar to make unguitarlike sounds on Both |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bill-nace-uses-his-guitar-to-make-unguitarlike-sounds-on-both/Content?oid=78663215|work=Chicago Reader|date=March 20, 2020|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bienstock|first=Richard|title=Body/Head: Kim Gordon and Bill Nace Talk New Genre-Defying Noise Project|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/bodyhead-kim-gordon-and-bill-nace-talk-new-genre-defying-noise-project|work=Revolver|date=July 16, 2018|access-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref>
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)<ref name="meyer"/> * ''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)<ref name="cea"/> * ''Body/Dilloway/Head'' (with Aaron Dilloway; Three Lobed Recordings, 2021)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Breihan, Tom |date=September 13, 2021 |title=Kim Gordon's Body/Head Team With Aaron Dilloway For Collaborative Album, Share New Song "Goin' Down" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2160534/kim-gordons-body-head-team-with-aaron-dilloway-for-collaborative-album-share-new-song-goin-down/music/ |access-date=September 14, 2021 |website=Stereogum}}</ref>
'''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) '''With David Watson'''
* ''On Bats'' (Amish Records, 2026)
===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== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://billnace.bandcamp.com/ Bill Nace] at Bandcamp *https://openmouthrecords.blogspot.com/ *{{discogs artist|610465-Bill-Nace Discogs}}
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