Jim O'Rourke

yeah! the Kahimi Karie record is sounding pretty solid too, maybe a little less "O'Rourke" but very nice.

(sorry, just catching up with these)

jim o'rourke is a genius and Shame On All Of You Haters in 2001

look what you did. you made him move to japan. JAPAN!!!!!!!!!

Really like the Eiko Ishibashi thing -- production is like 70s Joni filtered through Jim.

yeah car and freezer is great, i think she's a great songwriter (tho a lot of it is improv somehow?) and he's a good producer choice, i hope some of this vibe carries thru to his promised upcoming song-based record.

Steamroom 17 just released. As well as a new trio-lp on Black Truffle and a new duo-lp with Oren Ambarchi coming up soon on Editions Mego.

https://youtu.be/tyEbxVZNXK4

Boléro

Tracklist, etc.:

http://www.dragcity.com/products/simple-songs

http://www.dragcity.com/news/2015-05-05-flac-attack-the-jim-o-rourke-flac-atalog-is-here

smh

great post. punish me jimbo

lol
They're FLAC files, baby! Lossless, bitches - know what that means? If so, please email us! Or you know what? Don't - just BELIEVE that these are the finest possible digitally-delivered representations of the O'Rourkian experience, reluctantly sanctioned by the man himself, who would prefer that you listen to his music on LP while residing in a cave sufficiently far from him that he never has to worry about seeing or hearing from you again! Don't disappoint him (further), take advantage of this uniquely exclusive experience today!

http://s22.postimg.org/jjxf15lox/jimorourkesimplesongs.jpg

oops, i put the thumb on the wrong side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhac0bWENY

good god @ that picture

i have the poster from eureka on my bedroom door

Maybe you can appreciate my fan art? I updated my fan art to make it a little more realistic looking and to also better imitate Mimiyo Tomozawa's cartoons. There's only so much that I can, and am willing to do with a mouse and photofiltre freeware though.

uhhh.. updated picture here

http://s13.postimg.org/4w8e4czav/testetest.jpg

Streamin':

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/10/404723495/first-listen-jim-orourke-simple-songs

thanks for the URL.

I hear lots of echos of "The Visitor" (which is good). Beautiful 12-string guitar parts in "Friends with Benefits".

dunno if it's my speakers but it sounds tinny as fuck.. is this the NPR stream quality. it sounds awfully trebly, sorta 'canned', 0 low end..

Sounded terrible through my laptop speakers, now listening with good headphones and it's really nice. "These Hands" especially - classic beautiful/pervy JOR.

Yes, the stream is in low quality.

Even with the low quality stream, this album is hitting me hard. One for the year-end lists, I expect.

There's also a well-considered review that just appeared on the quietus site: http://thequietus.com/articles/17843-jim-orourke-simple-songs-review

i dig your drawings once-ler, they just took me by surprise.

halfway thru first listen, sounds most like The Visitor and Eureka. wild guitar sound of Insignificance nowhere to be found. but that album was written and recorded in a week, and this took....eight years?

..."Simple Songs" places far fewer layers between Jim and the listener. O'Rourke doesn't invite you inside his home, but he does unlock the door.

Well said.

really wish i had the lyric sheet atm

no french horn ! yay!
vdp honky tonk ! yay!
no shoehorned "this one's for all you organum lovers" middle 8 in the wrong key ! yay !
jim's singing voice. erm...

even though i get a strong "i'd really love to see you tonight" vibe from "friends with benefits", while listening to this song i have alternatingly loled nervously and thought "what a pretty song", totally love the ending
the old JOR magic!

jim's singing voice. erm...
i dunno, this album seems like he's finally comfortable singing...
and yeah, even though this seems like maybe his "approachable" and friendly album, there are still plenty of nervous lols to be had!

yeah i think his singing voice is fine
i was listening to unreleased? with fire! (lol) this morning and found it remarkably good, so i decided to check out the new JOR and found it unnerving in a smooth and pleasant and familiar classically smooth JOR kind of way

1999 Peel Session

yeahhh that is pretty excellent

I like JOR as a radio format = AOR with creepy lyrical undertones (see "In The Air Tonight", "Every Breath You Take", etc.).

sounds like a good idea but they'd have to call every station THE TRIGGER :-/

103 The Trigger

"last year" = early sam prekop / vintage gentle giant

one of the most quietly mastered albums i've heard in a while, it's more quiet than the visitor. it almost sounds as if he ran it through the "telephone" or "am radio" eq curves in Audacity. you have to really turn it up, and even then, it's nicely moderate.

we've had a rental car for the last few days. some of the tracks had my dad thrumming on the steering wheel with a moderate cockiness.. there are some muscly grooves on this.

thrumming = thumb drumming?

just like, hand drumming, with the palms, the thumbs, 7/10 digits.. maybe thrumming is the wrong word. just, drumming on the steering wheel

no shoehorned "this one's for all you organum lovers" middle 8 in the wrong key ! yay !

― massaman gai, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:44 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what are some examples of this? just curious

^ request seconded

First listen and this album is amazing. It feels mature. Comparing it to the 70's makes sense. However, calling a sound this fresh ~dated~ would not make sense; so hopefully no one is doing that.

Simple songs will not go on any year end list though. That would require me to care enough about other modern music to make a list.

well if y'all can't imagine a better key for the bowed cymbal extravaganza in the visitor i despair !

man, that Peel Session is fucking great! holy shit @ the fast version of 'Halfway to a Threeway'! beats the EP version by a long shot for me. i wish there were more live / alternate / radio recordings of these JimO songs

Listening to Simple Songs properly for the first time and it's blowing me away, so much more expansive and huge than its runtime suggests