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| Jim O'Rourke Bit! |
| Jim O'Rourke makes grown men wet their pants...here is why!
Wee time begins... Super-prolific Chicago guitar improviser, keyboardist, tape manipulator, composer and producer Jim O'Rourke is most conveniently identified in rock terms as a core member of Gastr del Sol, but he has also recorded solo, served in Red Krayola, written for the Kronos Quartet, produced Faust, collaborated with Henry Kaiser and K.K. Null and done numerous other projects. The admitted workaholic, who operates just as comfortably in the low fringes of underground skronk as well as more technique-conscious realms and experimental processes, also forms and records transient groups of likeminded adventurers as a matter of ongoing creative habit. O'Rourke started out, like many other experimenters, making home tapes and sending them to people whose work he admired. Some of them took notice, and he began working with renowned avant-garde composers and players at a relatively young age. O'Rourke's aesthetic is definable, even though the quantity and range of his releases militates against that. |
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| Discography
JIM O'ROURKE Some Kind of Pagan [tape] (Sound of Pig) 1989 It Takes Time to Do Nothing [tape] (Audiofile) 1990 The Ground Below Above Our Heads (Ger. Entenpfuhl) 1991 Tamper (Aus. Extreme) 1991 (P-Vine) 1999 Secure on the Loose Rim [tape] (Sound of Pig) 1991 Disengage (Staaltape) 1992 Scend (Divided) 1992 Remove the Need (Aus. Extreme) 1993 (P-Vine) 1999 Rules of Reduction EP3 (Fr. Metamkine) 1993 Use [DAT] (Soleilmoon) 1994 Terminal Pharmacy (Tzadik) 1995 Happy Days (Revenant) 1997 Bad Timing (Drag City) 1997 Eureka (Drag City) 1999 Halfway to a Threeway EP (Drag City) 1999 Insignificance (Drag City) 2001 JIM O'ROURKE AND HENRY KAISER Tomorrow Knows Where You Live (Can. Les Disques Victo) 1992 JIM O'ROURKE/HENRY KAISER/JOHN OSWALD/MARI KIMURA Acoustics (Can. Les Disques Victo) 1994 KAZUYUKI K. NULL/JIM O'ROURKE Neuro Eco Media [tape] (Nux Organization) 1992 New Kind of Water (Charnel House) 1993 EDDIE PREVOST/JIM O'ROURKE Third Straight Day Made Public (Complacency) 1994 JIM O'ROURKE AND G�NTER M�LLER Slow Motion (Sw. For 4 Ears) 1995 Table Chair and Hatstand (Sw. For 4 Ears) 1997 Weighting (Sw. For 4 Ears) 1998 INDICATE Whelm (UK Touch) 1995 BRISE-GLACE When in Vanitas ... (Skin Graft) 1994 YONA-KIT Yona-Kit (Skin Graft/Nux Organization) 1995 MIMIR Mimyriad (Streamline) 1994 + 1999 Mimir (Streamline) 2000 |
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