Jim O'Rourke

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

He has some history with GIO and I saw them perform a piece he created specially for them a few years ago (though he wasn't actually there himself), which used instructions on playing cards and was very playful and a lot of fun, which suited GIO well.

In more personal news: He has shaved his enormous beard.

BBC3 Radio is premiering a new Jim O'Rourke commission piece tomorrow, called 'Best that you do this for me - for vocalising string trio'. An extended version will be released next year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000pw0r

The BBC program also has a short interview with Jim. Meanwhile, I found about this John Duncan release that includes both Eiko and Jim.

Bandcamp now has Japanese cd-versions of both Jim O'Rourke/Kassel Jaeger collabs, in cobalt aura sleeps and Wakes on Cerulean. Both include a bonus track.

Apparently he's going to be part of the annual Second City / Albini family fundraiser.
https://www.facebook.com/24HourImprov/posts/1455893201285573

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— callahan (@banhmiverlag) December 22, 2020

Halfway to a Bam-Bam

Steamroom 52 seems to be a JOR birthday release, but it's not listed on the regular Steamroom page?

It's listed now...

Best that you do this for me is also up on Bandcamp.

Steamroom 53 up today too. The man doesn't stop!

what a giant. occasionally i'm just really moved by his dedication to exploration, usually when everything else in the world seems shit.