Jim Harris

Playing enough tools to fill up a music store window, composing the songs, carrying out all the mixing up aswell as the cover art — it could have been an excessive amount of for Jim Harris, launching music beneath the name of R.U.O.K.? as though asking a issue regarding his very own condition. His self-titled 1997 work for the Quantum Loop label was instantly compared to specific self-contained experimentalists from the ’80s such as for example Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson. Structured out of Brooklyn, Harris most likely had an excellent potential for hearing such performers in his instant environment. Harris will a grand work merging his melodic innovations using a parfait of sound files, at times in other words the vocal monitors for a audio that suggests normalcy despite all the evidence towards the in contrast. His original music are the impatient “Rush Up and Wait around” as well as the anonymous couple of “X, Pt. 1” and “X, Pt. 2,” aswell as the dread of “THE WORK Interview” as well as the excitement of “Harmful Behavior” (or vice versa).