Biography
From southwest Michigan, guitarist Bill Horist arrived in Seattle during 1994 already equipped with experience alongside star instrumentalists such as Medeski, Martin & Wood, Rashied Ali, and Freddie Hubbard. Within the city’s scene he quickly earned recognition for uncommon versatility, first through recordings and tours alongside the jangling rockers Kung Pao Dickens, the improvised chamber quartet UnFOlkUs, and several additional ensembles. His associations soon gravitated toward more experimental configurations, including the grinding Axolotl alongside guitarist Dennis Rea, the more fluid Ghidra featuring saxophonist Wally Shoup, and the guitar/DJ duo Tablet. That capacity to insert a personal improvisational identity across idioms stretching from out-jazz to industrial noise has kept him in demand as a collaborator from the U.K. to Japan. The two earliest Unit Circle albums, Soylent Radio in 1997 and Songs From the Nerve Wheel in 2000, displayed the same breadth of approach, signaling that Horist will seldom align with convention yet will invariably offer something distinctive.
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