Fans of experimental solo guitar records have been having a good year. The spring brought a new record by avant-jazz/power ambient guru David Torn and a career-spanning comp of madcap inventor Hans Reichel’s work. Now, Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia label gives us two LPs’ worth of gnarled fission and warped disputation from German provocateur Olaf Rupp. Rupp released a tribute to Reichel in 2020, NOBEACH, in which he captured his countryman’s pastoral eccentricities and bizarre tonal menagerie exactly. On collaborative albums like 2010’s The Specter of Genius with drummer Michael Wertmuller, Rupp plays with a whiplike velocity, echoing the thorny barrage of avant-guitar saint Derek Bailey. On Fuzzy Logic, he’s operating in a slower, more viscous mode,…

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