Jim O'Rourke

Also a very good interview in Libération (FR) a week or so back.

bzzzzz brhmmmmmzzzz

A free download on his Bandcamp page, not sure how long it will be available.

Happy Birthday,Jim🎂🎉👏⚡️ pic.twitter.com/8o00L8eriC

— eikoishibashi (@Eiko_Ishibashi) January 18, 2023

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.

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.

For those outside of the UK, you need a VPN.

It's on Spotify in the US.

he's still doing his monthly nts show. always an embarrassment of riches, not exactly sentimental listening of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxX1vo966ks

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

Cool!
Looking forward to updates...

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

saw him play last night with eiko ishibashi, beautiful sounds in a stunning venue & I got to sit down

Seeing him play in 7 minutes. Excited

<3

checking songkick and for some reason i think this tour date is probably the wrong guy lol

Saturday 18 May 2019

Jim O'Rourke
with Dolly Trolly and DJ Nigel

Will's Pub, Orlando, FL, US

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.

waiting so much for the Toneglow interview with Jim and David for the Gast reissue :(

Dolly Trolly definitely sounds like a Drag City all-star side project

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

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