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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― grandavis, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
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, Friday, 7 June 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 June 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
particularly love his listening list this time around
Roland KaynKiyohiko Senba and his Haniwa All StarsGuernica, Jun Togawa's bandWha-ha-ha
― Milton Parker, Friday, 7 June 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― EvR, Friday, 6 September 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
found this one searching for 'japanese bonus track'.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IsGgKM56qs
― EvR, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
I did find a steamroom 7" of his at Academy a few weeks ago. I didn't pick it up though.
― Evan, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
both of those loose fur records are keepers imo. so i forget, has he done that "bad timing" performance yet?
― tylerw, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 12 September 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
...and another one. That 7" is ultra-rare now so worth your money.
https://soundcloud.com/airtexture/air003-jim-orourke-low-bow
― EvR, Thursday, 12 September 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/news/786
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
How does Jim have the same outfit on in every picture/footage of him?
― grandavis, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
meh, was hoping this revive meant actual Jim stuff. Been rocking 'The Visitor' a bunch lately.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 24 September 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Mego announces Old News #9:http://editionsmego.com/release/OLD-NEWS-9
― EvR, Friday, 27 September 2013 07:09 (eleven years ago) link
No idea how anyone is expected to keep up with the output from Mego these days...
― MikoMcha, Friday, 27 September 2013 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
@NikoMcha Having a Spotify account helps. Although they don't have all the new releases up, like Jim's.
― EvR, Friday, 27 September 2013 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― massaman gai, Friday, 27 September 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
I think I counted that from 2011 - 2012, counting all the reissue stuff and imprints, Mego released something like 55 vinyl records.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 28 September 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
A new addition apparently to the Steamroom albums: http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-9
― EvR, Sunday, 27 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
no not the french horn again
― massaman gai, Sunday, 27 October 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3z8twRBz24
― EvR, Friday, 29 November 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
Steamroom 10 up: http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-10
― EvR, Monday, 3 February 2014 12:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 3 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
The Eiko Ishibashi record O'Rourke produced is pretty happening -- very much in the Eureka vein.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
"resurrection" on that album is a monster jam
― adam, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah! the Kahimi Karie record is sounding pretty solid too, maybe a little less "O'Rourke" but very nice.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
(sorry, just catching up with these)
― tylerw, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
jim o'rourke is a genius and Shame On All Of You Haters in 2001
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Sunday, 27 April 2014 06:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― adam, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― EvR, Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
https://youtu.be/tyEbxVZNXK4
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 9 April 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Boléro
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
Tracklist, etc.:
http://www.dragcity.com/products/simple-songs
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dragcity.com/news/2015-05-05-flac-attack-the-jim-o-rourke-flac-atalog-is-here
smh
― markers, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
great post. punish me jimbo
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
lolThey're FLAC files, baby! Lossless, bitches - know what that means? If so, please email us! Or you know what? Don't - just BELIEVE that these are the finest possible digitally-delivered representations of the O'Rourkian experience, reluctantly sanctioned by the man himself, who would prefer that you listen to his music on LP while residing in a cave sufficiently far from him that he never has to worry about seeing or hearing from you again! Don't disappoint him (further), take advantage of this uniquely exclusive experience today!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
http://s22.postimg.org/jjxf15lox/jimorourkesimplesongs.jpg
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
oops, i put the thumb on the wrong side
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 7 May 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhac0bWENY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 7 May 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
good god @ that picture
― flappy bird, Thursday, 7 May 2015 06:37 (nine years ago) link
i have the poster from eureka on my bedroom door
― charva favela (clouds), Friday, 8 May 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link