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American indie rock and avant-garde musician, composer and producer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from jazz and rock to ambient and electro-acoustic and building many a bridge in between. A Chicago native, his work has found equal luck with experimental jazz and noise fanatics, chill room denizens, and bedroom experimentalists, and has had the resultant effect of cross-pollinating many otherwise isolated compositional communities. Dealing most often with prepared guitar in improvisational group settings, O’Rourke has also released a fair bit of material as a soloist, although more often in the electro-acoustic/musique concrète vein. He’s collaborated with such contemporary improv heroes as Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe (of English improv group AMM), KK Null, David Jackman (Organum), and early krautrock experimentalists Faust. O’Rourke is also engaged in an ongoing exploration of experimental rock as a member of Gastr Del Sol, who’ve released albums through the Teen Beat and Table of the Elements labels.
Beginning with guitar at the age of 6, it wasn’t until his collegiate career at DePaul University that O’Rourke’s interest in the less obvious possibilities of the instrument led him through the early catalogs of the post-classical and electro-acoustic traditions. While at DePaul, O’Rourke completed much of the work that would constitute his first few releases.
Beginning with guitar at the age of 6, it wasn’t until his collegiate career at DePaul University that O’Rourke’s interest in the less obvious possibilities of the instrument led him through the early catalogs of the post-classical and electro-acoustic traditions. While at DePaul, O’Rourke completed much of the work that would constitute his first few releases.
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Insignificance
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Eureka
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Halfway to a Threeway
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Bad Timing
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optimistic_tour wrote:
Visitor is not sounding that different from anything else he's done in his indie-rock mode... just longer and more meditative! these guitar tones are right in line with everything from Eureka to the Loose Fur albums.. but it's ok because he's the only one doing this particular sound!
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x-creations wrote:
oh, them's fighting words
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riigo wrote:
no u
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MegatonShot wrote:
isnt he a massive nob
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curare_curare wrote:
a ped teacher??
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haraco wrote:
i can't wait to see fenn o' berg !love jim san*
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The_Owl_King wrote:
i really need to get my hands on his albums because he's just amazing
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mislaavv wrote:
does jimmy have anything else akin to the visitor?
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riigo wrote:
oh my god
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harajukudude wrote:
a group where people can express their opinion/dislike for a particular artist, without being insulted or personally attacked!! huzzah http://www.last.fm/group/Ugh%21+I+Hate+That+Band%21
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Ackibear wrote:
I lol'd.
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Koremora wrote:
The Visitor... is like.... Godspeed? Fuck it. I give up.
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TheoGB wrote:
I wouldn't really know how to classify The Visitor. It fits most neatly alongside the post-rock ideas of Godspeed, though. Admittedly his other stuff's quite different that I've heard.
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Koremora wrote:
Whoever tagged this as post-rock: I will find you. I will find where you live and I will destroy everything you love before your eyes. Die.
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tomwarne wrote:
The Visitor=awesomeness
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patman2769 wrote:
Wow, I'm happy and I'm singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 is goddamned brilliant. I'm only used to his pop music, which is overblown and ridiculous and good, but this is amazingly amazing.
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riigo wrote:
shame on you cacafag. anyway, the visitor is brilliant.
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looceefir wrote:
BUY THE ALBUM PLEASE.
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Cacophonaut wrote:
http://upl oa ding.com/files/WCD09X7J/Jim%20ORourke%20-%20The%20visitor%20.zip.html
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fergalmc wrote:
Please may I have The Visitor too?...
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