Great interview. Jim mentions Nijmegen, the city where I studied. There's an online recording of one of those gigs from 1991, named Extrapool.
― EvR, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link
Extrapool being the name of the venue. I only visited it once around 2000 or even later, for a live electronics concert (I don't remember the bill).
― EvR, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
Great read. I want him to write a book so he can go into all the other stories he hinted at, seems like he'd be a great storyteller.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
I'd love to hear more about his programming work when discussing the Steamroom 47 release. Too bad the latest Mego-collab with Kassel Jaeger wasn't mentioned, it's a very nice recording.
― EvR, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Fan-fic zombie movie set in restaurant starring Jim & Fahey vs. Nazis
― call mr zbow that's my name that name again is mr zbow (Craig D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
would stream
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Such a great interview. The factory story is obviously the most bonkers.
He's pretty easy to reach if any of you have questions or want to do an interview, I emailed him with a short question thru the Steamroom bandcamp email a few years ago and he got back to me in like 20 minutes.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
Fantastic interview. I've got 10+ tabs w/ albums and songs open to follow up on after that. Great read and a rare tell-all (well, nearly all) from the man. I'm glad he seems to be at a very happy place in his life right now.
Someone up here asked if anyone has kept up with the Steamroom records. Wish I could say I have. My uneducated guess would be that poster EvR has and knows all of them well!
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 06:53 (four years ago) link
I wish. I think I have heard most of them, apart from a few re-releases of things I already have/know (Two Organs, Long Night, Remove the Need, Mizo No Nai Umi).
― EvR, Monday, 11 May 2020 08:08 (four years ago) link
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. ...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.
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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.
― EvR, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 06:52 (four years ago) link
Also Steamroom 49 went up today
https://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-49
― chr1sb3singer, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
i dig this
https://akirasakata.bandcamp.com/album/dental-kafka
Akira Sakata - sax, clarinet, voiceJim O’Rourke - double bassGiovanni Di Domenico - piano, hohner pianetTatsuhisa Yamamoto - drums
― budo jeru, Saturday, 18 July 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
^^ 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!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 19 July 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
debated starting a new thread but the new eiko ishibashi album is beautiful https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/hyakki-yagy
― devvvine, Friday, 24 July 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
new jim o'rourke album is beautiful - https://portraitsgrm.bandcamp.com/album/shutting-down-here
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 01:13 (four years ago) link
Sold out :\
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_bTTOCHKQ&feature=emb_logo
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 05:08 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/Uw_bTTOCHKQ
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 05:11 (four years ago) link
― 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.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 09:39 (four years ago) link
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
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 31 July 2020 01:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― EvR, Friday, 31 July 2020 08:43 (four years ago) link
uncool!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 31 July 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the ordering link Eric!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 31 July 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
One of the best things I've heard this year, apart from this.
― EvR, Thursday, 6 August 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
...and another recent Bandcamp release featuring both Jim and Eiko.
― EvR, Thursday, 6 August 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
There are some recordings available on Sonic Youth's Bandcamp page that include Jim:
Live At L'Olympia 2001Live At Cabaret Metro Chicago, IL 2002Perspectives Musicales - Live At Cat's Cradle 2000
― EvR, Thursday, 13 August 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 13 August 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
It is, it's beautiful. On the ambient note, don't sleep on last years To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 14 August 2020 11:15 (four years ago) link
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?
― J. Sam, Monday, 17 August 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
Looking at the liners, it might be "Joan Morrane", an artist who has no other credits to that name on discogs.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
...should note that an almost identical name also appears on Eureka, this time as "Joan Morrone"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
i thought it was jeb bishop
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Monday, 17 August 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 August 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
New release:
Jim O'ROURKEMMXX-07 "In all due deference"Label: MATIÈRE MÉMOIRE (BE)Format: LP single-sidedVINYL
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.
― EvR, Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50065654307_23d240b956_k.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
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!
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 3 September 2020 15:58 (four years ago) link
I need that Jim O'Rourke action figure to be real and I need it asap
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:04 (four years ago) link
He seems to really like the new Autechre, based on how he rarely tweets beyond his own projects.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
JimO has a twitter account...?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
Jersey AI is referring to the Steamroom Twitter account.
― EvR, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
There's a STEAMROOM TWITTER??????
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
i .. have not kept up with jim o'rourke at all. boy is this steamroom (50) beautiful.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 September 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Not surprised by the Autechre tweet, this remix was compared by Bleep Stores to Autechre (the second track, Side B).
― EvR, Friday, 4 September 2020 08:55 (four years ago) link
I meant Boomkat instead of Bleep Stores.
― EvR, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
woah
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:24 (four years ago) link
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
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
For anyone who likes the Steamroom albums, this is also highly recommended.
― EvR, Monday, 7 September 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
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
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
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.
[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
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link