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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
will he ever again not be boring?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
and I never got around to 'in stereo'
― original bgm, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
I quite liked In Stereo. May have to revisit.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_weCEy2x8
― EvR, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cU0XCz7c6Y&feature=related
― EvR, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
cool xp
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 26 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
these are nice, thanks for posting. also -- Ring Des Nibelungen remix - whaaaa?
― tylerw, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for sharing!
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Friday, 7 June 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
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.
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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
^just thinking about the opener makes me wiggle in my chair
― willem, Friday, 7 June 2013 13:14 (eleven years ago) link
Noone's stopping you from wiggling, Willem!
― Random ACRB.PNG Memories (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 7 June 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
"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 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
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