Jim O'Rourke

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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.

EvR, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago)

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

Ban or Astro-Ban? (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

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?

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

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

EvR, Saturday, 3 September 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago)

Unreal. Thank you very much for sharing the link!

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 3 September 2011 18:10 (thirteen years ago)

rad - thanks!

tylerw, Saturday, 3 September 2011 19:03 (thirteen years ago)

That's fantastic, thanks!

Vision Kreayshawn Newsun (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

Old News #7 announced

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

EvR, Monday, 9 January 2012 22:58 (thirteen years ago)

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

quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 9 January 2012 23:06 (thirteen years ago)

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.

tylerw, Monday, 9 January 2012 23:14 (thirteen years ago)

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

EvR, Monday, 9 January 2012 23:37 (thirteen years ago)

that youtube is like my own bespoke catnip

ogmor, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:00 (thirteen years ago)

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..

I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 23:04 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

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

brain (krakow), Saturday, 4 February 2012 22:49 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

^^^ yes, and it's AWESOME

ilxor, Monday, 27 February 2012 05:36 (thirteen years ago)

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

tylerw, Monday, 27 February 2012 15:13 (thirteen years ago)

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.

EvR, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:11 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

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?

Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:35 (thirteen years ago)

will he ever again not be boring?

i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:36 (thirteen years ago)

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.

pagan diskow (Crackle Box), Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:56 (thirteen years ago)

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

original bgm, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:39 (thirteen years ago)

and I never got around to 'in stereo'

original bgm, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

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.

EvR, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

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!

original bgm, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:33 (thirteen years ago)

I quite liked In Stereo. May have to revisit.

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:46 (thirteen years ago)

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.

EvR, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

EvR, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:20 (thirteen years ago)

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

EvR, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:25 (thirteen years ago)

cool xp

sonderangerbot, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

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

EvR, Friday, 25 January 2013 18:49 (twelve years ago)

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.

here is no telephone (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 January 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

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

tylerw, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:10 (twelve years ago)

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

John Bradshaw-Leather (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 January 2013 19:21 (twelve years ago)

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

tylerw, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:28 (twelve years ago)

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.

tylerw, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:00 (twelve years ago)

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

Ward Fowler, Monday, 28 January 2013 21:19 (twelve years ago)

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

Be Glad for the Snorg Has No End (Jon Lewis), Monday, 28 January 2013 22:17 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

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

Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:48 (twelve years ago)

Thanks for sharing!

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 7 June 2013 12:33 (twelve years ago)

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.

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 7 June 2013 12:33 (twelve years ago)

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

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 7 June 2013 12:35 (twelve years ago)

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.

Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 June 2013 12:47 (twelve years ago)

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

willem, Friday, 7 June 2013 13:14 (twelve years ago)

Noone's stopping you from wiggling, Willem!

Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:12 (twelve years ago)

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.

i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:13 (twelve years ago)

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

More Than a Century With the Polaris Emblem (calstars), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:14 (twelve years ago)

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!

grandavis, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:25 (twelve years ago)

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*

dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 7 June 2013 15:27 (twelve years ago)

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.

tylerw, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:50 (twelve years ago)

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.

grandavis, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:53 (twelve years ago)


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