I like Eureka a lot, didn’t much care for Insignificance, sounded a bit too rock band-ish for me. Simple Songs I haven’t heard. Will definitely check out. Thanks!
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 August 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
The Halfway to a Threeway EP is my favorite in that folk/acoustic vein. The two Loose Fur albums have some songs (real songs) in that style, too.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 08:15 (three years ago) link
xps as opposed to those of his regular releases which were only bought by one person, but not by design
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 08:44 (three years ago) link
i was listening to either robert wyatt's rock bottom or ruth is stranger than richard the orther day thinking, this is very eureka. i think somewhere ilx jim fans agree that mid-late period Gorky'S zygotic mynci (spanish dance troupe onwards) is very jimo. or i guess you could try those ralph towner / john abercrombie duo discs or abercrombie's "characters"this: https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/feed-a-pigeon-breed-a-rat or other zach phillips has a comparable tangled proggy bacharach vibe.
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 09:23 (three years ago) link
oh yeah the first loose fur album is one of the best things both o'rourke & tweedy have done
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 09:50 (three years ago) link
xp thanks for mentioning that Zach Phillips album; I had been meaning to check it out. "Tangled proggy Bacharach vibe" is right, and I love the avant radio show concept. So good
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 13:57 (three years ago) link
I have spent most of today listening to Bad Timing, Halfway to Threeway and Eureka. He is ridiculously good. I swear 'The Workplace' is like walking through the world, only with six inches of air in the soles of one's shoes.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
Steamroom 57 is up on the Bandcamp, and it's an absolute trip. The piece is titled "between 2 and 6 a.m." and it sounds to me like the soundtrack to a series of dreams one might have during those hours
― J. Sam, Friday, 3 December 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
https://www.nts.live/shows/jim-o-rourke
― just sayin, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 05:52 (two years ago) link
once a month he picks tunes I see.
Also this-from March - playing on Drive My Car soundtrack
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/03/25/eiko-ishibashi-drive-my-car/
Much like the film, Ishibashi’s soundtrack is diametrically opposite to the prevailing cinematic trends in Japan. “Japanese film soundtracks are just wall-to-wall cloying emotional music,” she says. “It always sounds like a continuous trailer.” To which O’Rourke adds: “The way the Japanese film industry works, you have very little time to do the soundtrack. There’s very little real instrumental music in Japanese films now. Most soundtracks are done by one person on a keyboard. Eiko’s soundtrack is so different that people here overlook it. It doesn’t operate in telling you what your emotions are.”
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
eiko ishibashi also has a semi-regular nts show btw:
https://www.nts.live/shows/eiko-ishibashi
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
I watched Drive My Car last week and was excited to discover that he played on the soundtrack. It's worth a listen, even if you haven't seen the movie.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 April 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
x-post -- oh nice
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
the NTS radio shows are great
― fpsa, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 14:43 (two years ago) link
checked the latest one, could not believe that costin mireanu track.
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Sunday, 14 August 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
Incredible interview on the Noisextra podcast last week:https://www.noisextra.com/2022/08/10/in-conversation-with-jim-orourke-fenn-oberg-sonic-youth-gastr-del-sol/
― bamboohouses, Sunday, 14 August 2022 06:46 (two years ago) link
Also a very good interview in Libération (FR) a week or so back.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 14 August 2022 07:30 (two years ago) link
bzzzzz brhmmmmmzzzz
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
A free download on his Bandcamp page, not sure how long it will be available.
― EvR, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
Happy Birthday,Jim🎂🎉👏⚡️ pic.twitter.com/8o00L8eriC— eikoishibashi (@Eiko_Ishibashi) January 18, 2023
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link
https://www.spin.com/2023/08/jim-o-rourke-sonic-youth-steamroom-interview/
Jack’s score for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — it’s obvious I’ve ripped that off my entire life (laughs).I did work on a record with him (Will Oldham) once, but it wasn’t ‘with’ him. It was an EP he did with Rian Murphy called All Most Here, which originally was going to be songs Will wrote, Rian produced, and they’d send off to people like Polly Jean Harvey to sing. Rian asked me to do the arrangements, which I think were added to by Archer Prewitt. In the end, Will ended up singing all the songs himself. He’s still an enigma to me.
I did work on a record with him (Will Oldham) once, but it wasn’t ‘with’ him. It was an EP he did with Rian Murphy called All Most Here, which originally was going to be songs Will wrote, Rian produced, and they’d send off to people like Polly Jean Harvey to sing. Rian asked me to do the arrangements, which I think were added to by Archer Prewitt. In the end, Will ended up singing all the songs himself. He’s still an enigma to me.
― fpsa, Friday, 1 September 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
There's a Mojo podcast and it looks like half the episodes have only just become available? Anyway, Big Jim is a guest: https://planetradio.co.uk/podcasts/the-mojo-record-club/id-2176269/
Some interesting guests elsewhere too: Thurston, Barry Adamson, Robert Forster.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 November 2023 22:22 (ten months ago) link
For those outside of the UK, you need a VPN.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 11 November 2023 22:31 (ten months ago) link
It's on Spotify in the US.
― avoid boring people, Saturday, 11 November 2023 22:51 (ten months ago) link
he's still doing his monthly nts show. always an embarrassment of riches, not exactly sentimental listening of course.
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 11 November 2023 22:54 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxX1vo966ks
― MaresNest, Monday, 20 November 2023 23:33 (ten months ago) link
I am listening to all the Steamrooms in order to find the diamonds. I'm making notes! So far Steamroom 3 is a real keeper, it's incredible, micropolyphonic dissolving via Shepard tones into monolithic moments of diatonic calm, it's like what every composer dreams of achieving. Steamroom 8 is early, from 1990, a static ambient shiny drone film score, it makes for a very relaxing and compelling hour
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 09:46 (nine months ago) link
Cool!Looking forward to updates...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 12:41 (nine months ago) link
they've managed to drag him out here for an 'electronic special octophonic concert' and i think i would go except the venue doesn't have seating and i know i hate sitting on the floor there for two hours
― ufo, Saturday, 4 May 2024 09:02 (four months ago) link
saw him play last night with eiko ishibashi, beautiful sounds in a stunning venue & I got to sit down
― Cognosc in Tyrol (emsworth), Thursday, 18 July 2024 02:18 (two months ago) link
Seeing him play in 7 minutes. Excited
― H.P, Thursday, 18 July 2024 09:23 (two months ago) link
<3
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 18 July 2024 15:33 (two months ago) link
checking songkick and for some reason i think this tour date is probably the wrong guy lol
Saturday 18 May 2019
Jim O'Rourkewith Dolly Trolly and DJ Nigel
Will's Pub, Orlando, FL, US
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Thursday, 18 July 2024 17:26 (two months ago) link
I am listening to all the Steamrooms in order to find the diamonds. I'm making notes! So far Steamroom 3 is a real keeper, it's incredible, micropolyphonic dissolving via Shepard tones into monolithic moments of diatonic calm, it's like what every composer dreams of achieving.
I started following the Steamrooms around #40 and haven't explored the earlier ones too much, but I just listened to #3 based on your rec, and you were so right--it is SUBLIME. Thanks fgti! Would love to read your thoughts on any other standouts in the series.
― J. Sam, Thursday, 18 July 2024 19:55 (two months ago) link
waiting so much for the Toneglow interview with Jim and David for the Gast reissue :(
― fpsa, Thursday, 18 July 2024 20:19 (two months ago) link
Dolly Trolly definitely sounds like a Drag City all-star side project
― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Thursday, 18 July 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
Jim's piece was great last night. Beautiful piano number at the end (which I couldn't help thinking would make a phenomenal jandek backing track lol).
Keiji Haino absolutely tore it up afterwards tho. Very funny, very large, many many many majestic screaming guitar solos
― H.P, Friday, 19 July 2024 03:13 (two months ago) link
Did not like being in a sit down crowd for Haino. I wanted to be up on my feet and moving with the screaming guitar
― H.P, Friday, 19 July 2024 03:15 (two months ago) link