Jim O'Rourke

ha yeah, i saw o'rourke open for sonic youth in ...1998? and his entire set consisted of a 30 minute version of "women of the world". didn't know it was ivor cutler then (probably hadn't heard of the dude tbh).

that new P.G. Six album sounds very promising, thanks!

women in the world was used in a wal mart commercial recently

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the j'or version?

did anyone hear the 'United Red Army' cd Jim did? That's really nice stuff I think. The 'Indeed' lp on Mego with Oren Ambarchi could have been better but it's nice nonetheless.

I heard that soundtracks. Fun Bill Fay cover.
It is impossible to catalogue this guy, with all that he's involved with.

Did United Red Army the movie ever get a US release? i think it's been "saved" on my Netflix for like four years. Anyone got a line on an English-subbed DVD?

Jim O'Rourke mixtapes: http://soundgenetic.blogspot.com/2008/12/jim-orourke-mixtapes-198889.html

Unreal. Thank you very much for sharing the link!

rad - thanks!

That's fantastic, thanks!

Old News #7 announced

and a recent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFyaPx-DKJo&feature=related

he plays on the new bill wells record LEMONDALE, which was recorded a couple of years back in japan in a day. it's a really lovely record, with kama aina, tenniscoats & nikaido kazumi playing on it. i feel like if there are jim o rourke completists who buy everything he does it would probably be at the sweet end of the pile, it's v sweet-sounding & melodic

when's that video from? it's great.
does seem too bad that there aren't a whole bunch of O'Rourke records like Bad Timing, dude could've easily made a pretty satisfying career out of just exploring that kinda thing. and plus he now appears to have the appropriate beard for it.

I guess it's something recent from Japan, there are two more video's of the same concert(?).

that youtube is like my own bespoke catnip

yeah it's the pinnacle of O'Rourke Genius for me too, and the thing is it feels like there's so much like this out there/in him still..

Apparently there is a new Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke & Oren Ambarchi 2xLP called 'Imikuzushi' coming on Black Truffle!

^^^ yes, and it's AWESOME

looks like o'rourke is performing Eureka in its entirety in Japan soon: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/illbeyourmirrorjapan/news/1202021000.php

It's hard to keep up with all these releases. Mego announced another 2lp set of Fenn O'Berg, but I haven't digested 'In Stereo' or 'Live in Japan' yet.

track 1 on old news #7 is real good. hard, varied synth wankery w/gorgeous tones. why can't they put these out on cd?

will he ever again not be boring?

Anyone heard the new Fenn O'Berg 'In Hell'? His noisy stuff/collaborations have been pretty OTM the last few years. Always packaged beautifully too.

I'm pretty sure I fall in love with at least one JOR related thing every year, this dude will never be boring, Hurting, you are wrong wrong wrong.

yeah, curious about 'in hell' as well but I still haven't completely digested the two 'live in japan' releases yet.

and I never got around to 'in stereo'

I reviewed the two 'Live in Japan' releases and 'In Stereo' in Dutch (so no use to link here). They are both on Spotify. I haven't heard 'In Hell' yet since it will not be available until April. A quick review: the Kyoto tracks on both Japan releases are standouts, 'In Stereo' is not so interesting except for the first track (the last part of the track is the best thing they've done - when the guitar comes in). 'In Stereo' vasries from the live-tracks in that they also make use of piano, bass, drums and guitar, although digitally manipulated.

yeah, what I had read about 'in stereo' at the time it came out was a bit of a turnoff. I do enjoy my restrained, tasteful electronic music... but that's not what attracted me to the first two lps. at all!

I quite liked In Stereo. May have to revisit.

They have clearly made a shift from 'making fun' to 'more serious' music in the sense that it's less claustrofobic and atmospheric - not a bad thing. Gone are the short samples, the new material is more stretched out, trough-composed and comparable to what for instance Tim Hecker is doing - see for instance the use of echo on the Live in Japan lp's. I just wished they'd write more melodical stuff like that first track of 'In Stereo'. It has potential for the future that's for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_weCEy2x8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cU0XCz7c6Y&feature=related

cool xp

Some recent (?) film music by Jim. The first one is very Visitor-ish:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39cyvOYCed0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UES8ZmvSOdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giXFNJ4Z9g

Did he ever do anything resembling the Ring Des Nibelungen remix he promised in the liner notes of one of his early CDs? I think about that all the time...

Mirror Repair, Bad Timing, and Sonic Nurse are my fave shits with this guy on 'em.

these are nice, thanks for posting.
also -- Ring Des Nibelungen remix - whaaaa?

it was in the booklet for a release of his 'new music', either on Tzadik or Avant, errr 94 or 95?

haha, guess it would be a pretty big project. maybe he's aiming for a 2021 release date?

listened to both the visitor and bad timing over the weekend, such cool records. bad timing is the classic -- anyone else would've just made a career out of that kinda thing.

Jon iirc that's in the sleevenotes to Terminal Pharmacy on Tzadik (but I think he was joking...?)

yeah, that was the disc. I chose to believe him-- at the time, Grayfolded was fairly recent, I dunno it seemed plausible.

Long interview: "The musical maverick talks about life in Tokyo, Led Zeppelin and ATP"

Thanks for sharing!

Also:

I'm almost done with the next song record – after 12 goddamn years.

This is songs with lyrics and everything?

Lyrics and singing and rude, rude subjects. I've recorded, like, five of them already, and I just won't finish them… I don't know. Probably this year, I'll finally put it out, and then I really want to do the band show, really properly.

This is good news because I have basically been playing Insignificance to death over the last couple of weeks.

Yes that was very good to hear! Although I think he's said something similar before and it didn't materialize, but I can't wait for it.

Insignificance is one of my all-time favourite albums ever.

^just thinking about the opener makes me wiggle in my chair

Noone's stopping you from wiggling, Willem!

Therefore I Am is such a jam. I generally find this guy's "out" records boring and wish he would make more song records, so I'm glad he's doing another one.