Jim O'Rourke

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.

'6 views of a secret' turns into an organ fugue or something. fantastic.

I've never really paid much attention to this guy, which is odd because he ticks all the right boxes, but I'm listening to Steamroom 53 right now and it's incredible.

St 53 is great - one of the most "ambient" of his releases. All the recent Steamrooms are really nice.

Week-End Mixtape:

https://www.mixcloud.com/weekendfest/week-end-mixtape-18-jim-orourke/

That's a fantastic mix, thanks for posting. When I first opened it in Mixcloud the tracklist was available when swiping, but it now seems only available for premium members. The blurb describes the tracks to an extent, it's neither in order nor complete though.

Włodzimierz Kotoński
"Time Captives" by Kingdom Come
Autechre "Sinistrail Sentinel”
Jaap Vink “Stroma”
Sand “Helicopter”
Frank Zappa
Julius Eastman
Xenakis’s saxophone quartet “Xas”
Wim Mertens “Circles”

Hmm... yes, I'm sure the tracklist was visible on desktop also, but now it's gone. Should've copypasted it.

apologies for horrible formatting:

#
Time
Song
Artist
01
no time
Antiphonae
Wlodzimierz Kotonski
02
no time
Xas
Iannis Xenakis
03
no time
Listen to the Silence
George Russell
04
no time
Stroma
Jaap Vink
05
no time
Helicopter
Sand
06
no time
Sinistrel Sentinel
Autechre
07
no time
Shun X
Hino Terumasa
08
no time
Wait Until Day
Loren Connors
09
no time
Time Captives
Kingdom Come
10
no time
Low Budget Music for Orchestra
Frank Zappa
11
no time
Joy Boy
Julius Eastman
12
no time
Circles
Wim Mertens

(via https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mixcloud-with-tracklist/jgghogcekaldifaiifpnbfnpmmpiengb?hl=en)

Thanks toby!

Seconded, thanks Toby! There really is an addon for everything :)

attention! jim o'rourke is doing an online event monday mar 1!
part of this series, there is a fb event but i didn't want to link to it https://ess.org/option

Cool, thanks for the heads up!

Jim had a guest spot at NTS on the 19th, playing an hour of minimal/experimental cuts. The show can be found here (tracklist is included)

That live convo La Lechera mentioned is happening now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AUUVq6Wck

Making Eureka, telling Vandermark "Play stupider! Stupider! Saturday Night Live! More like David Sandborn!" And Vandermark says "I can't do it!" And he says, "That's why I want you to do it!"

That was so great. Very interesting to learn that everything on Loose Fur's Born Again In the USA--except for vocals--was recorded with Shure SM57 mics. Just because he wanted to see how it would sound!

^ Love the sound of (and songs on!) that second Loose Fur album--sort of as much the unofficial sequel to Insignificance as to LF1 in certain ways.

I also found it very subtly telling how when O'Rourke demurs that he's not the most social person, Vandermark counters with "Well, you are and you aren't"...

Ha, I've always loved that anecdote about Eureka, which was the subject of a blog post I wrote 18 (!!!) years ago.

Interesting review on All About Jazz (!!) of the Another Timbre-release.

I've *finally* got through this interview. It's kind of interesting to see how Jim handles his uh... divorce from the USA (recording engineer, Roeg/Drag City records, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Loose Fur, etc) and never really returned.

My rationale for posting this every so often in a few different places is to increase the chance that I or the world won't forget it exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJWxkYu8WgU

anyone wanna recommend their favorite steamrooms? i have 40, 50, and 53. all great.

I've only heard 52 and 53 so far. The latter blew my mind, just a sublime marriage of ambient compositional principles and so-called contemporary classical, whereas the former was decent enough, but a bit nondescript in comparison. If RYM is anything to go by, they seem to highly rate nos. 4, 5, 17, 30, 46, 47 & 50. I wouldn't mind making my way through the whole series in chronological order, but that's quite the commitment.

46 is as good as cosmic synth music gets imo

nice

Jim O'Rourke - Too Compliment lp announcement

pretty epic write-up / review of Too Compliment towards the bottom of this feature. it's the very last review in the series. nice DG interview, too-
https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-065-david-grubbs

*epic, or obnoxious, depending on how you're feeling. i can't help but calboti (chuckling a little bit on the inside, man) at the fact that JOR doesn't put this stuff out on cd, forcing me to listen to his output on mp3 (or flac), often on laptop speakers. is vinyl really superior for this type of music? Too Compliment recalls the vibe of some of the more dense, percussive Steamroom releases.. harsh, alien world -sounding, synthesized environments. maybe it's more dynamic and concise. i suppose that i'm in the minority of listeners, desiring a CD release (or any physical format, for that matter) for this stuff

always think vinyl is pretty dumb for this stuff, too, fwiw