Jim O'Rourke

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.

"All Downhill From Here" reminds me of Built to Spill's "The Plan" in the best way

Man, that is an interesting interview. This guy is just so great and bizarre. The old drummer from Melt-Banana is in his band, which is great!

i don't think i really understood what he was getting at when he was talking about people who play like *this* and people who play like *that*

great interview, excited for another "song" album... i haven't kept up with a lot of his archival stuff or his japanese collabs, but i generally like everything I've heard.

That was a confusing passage. I THINK he was suggesting that the people in Japan whom he has enjoyed playing with play "in the moment" in a way that does not suggest practiced musicianly responses, but more just heavily personal ways of performing that are indicative of the player and not the particular instrument, but really I am just projecting cause it was confusing as hell. That stuff is all heavily subjective too, just seems like Jim has players he likes and those he thinks are kinda like the civil war re-enactors of the improv/jazz world, or something like that.

Ooops, xpost to people who play like "this" and "that"

Anyone who hasn't heard those last two Ambarchi/Haino/O'Rourke records should do so, they are great (though admittedly I haven't even heard the whole records, just tracks from them, but they were really good).

the dbl live set with akira sakata, darin gray and chris corsano (now is he a *this* or *that* drummer?) is great too, if you like full on free jazz blat - some of o'rourke's skronkiest gtr playing, def

Whoa, that sounds great! Is that under a "band" name or just the names of the players?

Have trouble imagining that Corsano disappoints folks too often as a rehasher of stock moves, but whatever. I would think that O'Rourke is a fan of whoever he ends up playing with these days, cause the Corsano "brand" wouldn't bring in any money or anything.

grandavis, it's this set on family vineyard (there's a fairly representative sound sample here):

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/akira-sakata-and-thats-story-jazz

particularly love his listening list this time around

Roland Kayn
Kiyohiko Senba and his Haniwa All Stars
Guernica, Jun Togawa's band
Wha-ha-ha

So 8 new albums out on Bandcamp: http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/
I'm surprised it's all digital since he wasn't too positive about digital releases. I did listen to some of it yet. They all seem drone works, at least from what I've heard until now. Some thoughts:
- 'Not Yet' (Steamroom 8) seems a more full take of 'Two Organs' and snippets of it are used for 'Mother and Who' on Old News #5.
- 'Another Slow Night' (Steamroom 4) is definately a standout.

found this one searching for 'japanese bonus track'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsGgKM56qs

I did find a steamroom 7" of his at Academy a few weeks ago. I didn't pick it up though.

both of those loose fur records are keepers imo.
so i forget, has he done that "bad timing" performance yet?

Oh, it was this that I found by the way:

http://www.discogs.com/Jim-ORourke-Despite-The-Water-Supply/release/1398802

Was recorded in the steamroom, and is also drone from what I remember.

...and another one. That 7" is ultra-rare now so worth your money.

https://soundcloud.com/airtexture/air003-jim-orourke-low-bow

The 7" I just linked? I didn't get it. Doesn't seem extremely rare and I haven't been into drone enough to get it. Wasn't too expensive either though, and since it was a new arrival the price I assumed was current.

http://www.dragcity.com/news/786

How does Jim have the same outfit on in every picture/footage of him?

meh, was hoping this revive meant actual Jim stuff. Been rocking 'The Visitor' a bunch lately.

Was listening to Kid Creole & the Coconuts' 'Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy' earlier today and that one sardonic couplet at the end of the chorus immediately made me think of Jim: "'Cos if I was in your blood / Then you wouldn't be so ugly"

Mego announces Old News #9:
http://editionsmego.com/release/OLD-NEWS-9

No idea how anyone is expected to keep up with the output from Mego these days...

@NikoMcha Having a Spotify account helps. Although they don't have all the new releases up, like Jim's.

mego inevitably release what you just purchased but remastered & with extra tracks, the day after you purchase it.
fuck any vinyl that is not €1 in my local Plattenkiste.

I think I counted that from 2011 - 2012, counting all the reissue stuff and imprints, Mego released something like 55 vinyl records.

A new addition apparently to the Steamroom albums: http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-9

no not the french horn again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3z8twRBz24

Steamroom 10 up: http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-10

heard this for the first time in years today, don't care much for Insignificance, but what atmosphere:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aQf5h-6a5U

The Eiko Ishibashi record O'Rourke produced is pretty happening -- very much in the Eureka vein.

"resurrection" on that album is a monster jam

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