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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 music , working in everything from and to and and building many a bridge in between. A Chicago native, his work has found equal luck with experimental jazz and fanatics, 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 group AMM), KK Null, David Jackman (Organum), and early experimentalists Faust. O’Rourke is also engaged in an ongoing exploration of 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.
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  • Nakkinak

    he's like one of those weird philosophy professors, a total genius but you're afraid he would cut you and eat your guts in an unwatched moment

    16 May 10:43pm Reply

  • Kristman

    old news #7 was one of my favourite releases last year, I should really get around to listening to the rest of the series. modular synth work fascinates me more the more I hear it. Dilloway's side project Spine Scavenger, for example.

    14 Apr 10:31am Reply

  • plannetshh

    Huge last pic i saw of him

    3 Apr 11:06pm Reply

  • jorgefuzzo

    Why the fuck isn't this dude huge? I mean, it's way more accessible than Sonic Youth for instance, and I'd dare to say it's almost as good as their best stuff.

    11 Mar 4:23am Reply

  • fergalmc

    The Old News releases are great, especially Old News #5 and opener Pedal & Pedal.

    14 Feb 7:33am Reply

  • memeticmoose

    Jim O'Rourke. A short, confusing fellow who touches all that turns to gold.

    2 Jan 8:09am Reply

  • BiskitFoo

    @bigbadapplejax Pitchfork's never right. Ever.

    25 Dec 2012 Reply

  • BiskitFoo

    Jim O'Rourke is a better version of Beck. I'm convinced.

    25 Dec 2012 Reply

  • birdturd93

    Jim O'Rourke should make more albums like Eureka and Halfway to a threeway and less sound collage albums....only my opinion

    8 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Kristman

    @fromabeach, just what is and has always been Schreiber's deal?

    22 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Nakkinak

    oh Jimuoruku [2]

    17 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Nakkinak

    great guitar player

    17 Oct 2012 Reply

  • batorgil

    oh Jimuoruku

    23 Sep 2012 Reply

  • plannetshh

    his new band is called Geigai!

    26 Jul 2012 Reply

  • Nakkinak

    damn Halfway to a Threeway arrived today, vinyl. Gotta love that sad frog

    13 Jul 2012 Reply

  • bigbadapplejax

    I wish more of his stuff was easily available on vinyl. The art on all his records is glorious in it's intended format. :/

    1 Jun 2012 Reply

  • sammyskochica

    All Kinds of People: Love Burt Bacharach by Jim O'Rourke...Awesome...:))

    12 May 2012 Reply

  • Cox_of_Seagulls

    "For some reason I thought all his solo stuff was weird instrumental stuff... " a lot of it is.

    27 Apr 2012 Reply

  • hrkkikuchi

    EUREKA is the musterpiece, heavenly sounds. experimental in fenoberg is good too

    12 Apr 2012 Reply

  • sglangdon

    Picked up Insignificance on a whim because it was dead cheap and as well as his ties with Sonic Youth I always hear his name everywhere else. I'm glad I picked it up. It's pretty fuckin' ace. For some reason I thought all his solo stuff was weird instrumental stuff...

    22 Mar 2012 Reply
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