Jim O'Rourke

Announcement on editionsmego.com:

INA GRM and Editions MEGO are pleased to announce the creation of a new collection of releases, the Portraits GRM series.
Perpetrating the fertile collaboration initiated in 2012 with Recollection GRM, the GRM and Editions MEGO have decided to offer a complementary series, no longer focused on the “classic” GRM repertoire but towards recent creations commissioned by the GRM to artists from all horizons.

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This new series will come to life with the release of two records, the first devoted to the piece Shutting Down Here by Jim O'Rourke, and the second to the works Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani, and a Fly) by Max Eilbacher and Forma by Lucy Railton.

Also Steamroom 49 went up today

https://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-49

i dig this

https://akirasakata.bandcamp.com/album/dental-kafka

Akira Sakata - sax, clarinet, voice
Jim O’Rourke - double bass
Giovanni Di Domenico - piano, hohner pianet
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - drums

^^ albums with covers that most look like they're on Touch Records but aren't, in fact, on Touch Records.

Seriously, thanks for linking to it, I've been enjoying it this morning!

debated starting a new thread but the new eiko ishibashi album is beautiful https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/hyakki-yagy

new jim o'rourke album is beautiful - https://portraitsgrm.bandcamp.com/album/shutting-down-here

Sold out :\

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_bTTOCHKQ&feature=emb_logo

https://youtu.be/Uw_bTTOCHKQ

Sold out :\

― flappy bird, woensdag 29 juli 2020 6:08 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

And fast, too. Sad I missed it.

Devvvine, the new Eiko Ishibashi is indeed remarkably beautiful.

wish this was issued on CD. i suppose jim o'rourke frowns on the idea of listening to his music on a laptop, streaming youtube audio. still, it sounds great. it's nice to hear something so concise and loaded with ideas, w/its constant movement (it's almost constantly bristling w/textures) and variety of sound sources, timbres, etc. i wonder how it sounds on vinyl

You can still get the LP here. Jim is also on the "Swamp / Things" lp from Kassel Jaeger. On a side note, I was mildly "surprised" The Wire quoted the Tone Glow interview with Jim without mentioning the source.

uncool!!

Thanks for the ordering link Eric!

debated starting a new thread but the new eiko ishibashi album is beautiful https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/hyakki-yagy

One of the best things I've heard this year, apart from this.

...and another recent Bandcamp release featuring both Jim and Eiko.

There are some recordings available on Sonic Youth's Bandcamp page that include Jim:

Live At L'Olympia 2001
Live At Cabaret Metro Chicago, IL 2002
Perspectives Musicales - Live At Cat's Cradle 2000

It's alarming how good "Shutting Down Here" is, I've only been a casual enjoyer of his ambient/concrète stuff but this is undeniably terrific

It is, it's beautiful. On the ambient note, don't sleep on last years To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye.

I remember reading an interview with him a few years ago where he talks about how one of the session horn players on Bad Timing told him that the arrangement on Happy Trails was like the dumbest shit he had ever heard. Can't find it now, can anyone help me out?

Looking at the liners, it might be "Joan Morrane", an artist who has no other credits to that name on discogs.

...should note that an almost identical name also appears on Eureka, this time as "Joan Morrone"

i thought it was jeb bishop

Hahaha I never heard that story! Reminds me of him begging the sax player on Through the Night Softly to make it as SNL as possible

New release:

Jim O'ROURKE
MMXX-07 "In all due deference"
Label: MATIÈRE MÉMOIRE (BE)
Format: LP single-sided
VINYL

Matière Mémoire presents the MMXX Series. In anticipation of the year 2020, Matière Mémoire asked 20 great artists to create an original 20 minutes piece and an artwork. Throughout this year, each quarter will see the release of 5 new vinyls, available individually or as a bundle. Each record is limited at 500 copies and comes as a crystal clear vinyl featuring an original track of 20 minutes on one side, and a laser engraved artwork on the other. Each contained in a transparent sleeve printed with the MMXX logo, and each coming with a print of the artist artwork.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50065654307_23d240b956_k.jpg

Hmm, reminds me of that raster-noton "20' to 2000" project in 1999. A CD every month, full-sized but only partially-silvered, 20min pieces.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-20-To-2000/release/1885879

Looks like I should have bought the storage thing, it really bumps up the selling price!

I need that Jim O'Rourke action figure to be real and I need it asap

He seems to really like the new Autechre, based on how he rarely tweets beyond his own projects.

JimO has a twitter account...?

Jersey AI is referring to the Steamroom Twitter account.

There's a STEAMROOM TWITTER??????

i .. have not kept up with jim o'rourke at all. boy is this steamroom (50) beautiful.

I think it's fair to say it's his personal account, it says "Jim O'Rourke Live" in katakana and he posts often about non-Steamroom stuff.

Not surprised by the Autechre tweet, this remix was compared by Bleep Stores to Autechre (the second track, Side B).

I meant Boomkat instead of Bleep Stores.

woah

lol wait til you guys find out that Eiko is very active on social and see what she posts!

https://i.imgur.com/L84QEmc.png

For anyone who likes the Steamroom albums, this is also highly recommended.

Jim and Eiko are cute :)

I've been digging Steamroom 46 a lot lately--one of his less dissonant synthscapes, but as cosmic as ever

Jim O’Rourke: Just give me a second, I need to do a tobacco run.

[The two go on a tobacco run]

Jim O’Rourke: And we’re back.

Eiko Ishibashi: Hello.

Nice interview with Eiko Ishibashi (w/ Jim interpreting and occasionally weighing in): https://toneglow.substack.com/p/0328-eiko-ishibashi

idk if this interview with jim o'rourke himself from the same magazine is linked upthread but it's very extensive and gives some info about his next release

https://toneglow.substack.com/p/014-jim-orourke

Apparently Jim & Eiko's "debut public" (?) live performance at the virtual Tusk Festival begins in ~2h30m here (8:30pm England time/3:30pm EDT/12:30pm PDT):

https://tuskfestival.com/live-stream/

(I missed this btw)

the performance is here https://vimeo.com/466964573 at about 10:25:00

thank you ufo

Ltd to 500 copies, Jim O'Rourke's 'In All Due Deference'

https://boomkat.com/products/in-all-due-deference

(and yes, thanks ufo!)

gone, unsurprisingly

Next weekend Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra are having their annual festival, which will be happening online this year, streaming free.

I don't know what, but Jim O'Rourke will be presenting something on Saturday night, 7:30pm UK time, 28th Nov.

https://www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com/giofest/

Cool!
From the brochure:
Jim O’Rourke Saturday 7:30pm
The limitlessly prolific and influential musician/producer sends music from his home in Japan