Jim O’Rourke

American post-classical composer Jim O’Rourke is a essential component within the raising overlap from the American and Western european experimental music avant-garde, employed in from jazz and rock to ambient and electro-acoustic, and building many a bridge among. A Chicago indigenous, his work provides found equal good luck with experimental jazz and sound fanatics, chill area denizens, and bedroom experimentalists, and has already established the resultant aftereffect of cross-pollinating many usually isolated compositional neighborhoods. Dealing frequently with prepared electric guitar in improvisational group configurations, O’Rourke in addition has released a good bit of materials being a soloist, although more regularly within the electro-acoustic musique concrète vein. He’s collaborated with such modern improv heroes as Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost, and Keith Rowe (of British improv group AMM), KK Null, David Jackman (Organum), and early Krautrock experimentalists Faust. O’Rourke can be engaged within an ongoing exploration of experimental rock and roll as an associate of Gastr del Sol, who’ve released albums with the Teenager Beat and Desk of sun and rain labels. You start with electric guitar at age six, it wasn’t until his collegiate profession at DePaul School that O’Rourke’s curiosity about the less apparent likelihood of the device led him through the first catalogs from the post-classical and electro-acoustic customs. While at DePaul, O’Rourke finished much of the job that could constitute his initial few produces. He also acquired the opportunity to meet with observed improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey, whose invitation to O’Rourke to try out at the United kingdom Improv Festival Firm Week resulted in further collaborative tasks with Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost, and David Jackman. O’Rourke started dealing with Dan Burke’s Illusion of Basic safety project in the first ’90s, launching three albums through Staalplaat and Tesco before shifting to create experimental “rock and roll” group Gastr del Sol with David Grubbs. Although concentrating more on cooperation following a string of single releases in the first ’90s, O’Rourke offers shifted back again to single work lately, liberating Terminal Pharmacy through John Zorn’s Tzadik label and completing commissioned items for the Kronos Quartet as well as the Rova Saxophone Quartet. In 1995, O’Rourke was asked by German experimental digital label Mille Plateaux (Oval, Metal, Microstoria) to carry out a protracted remix of the entire back again catalog. He also created and co-wrote an excellent part of innovative German clothing Faust’s Desk of sun and rain release, Rien. Following releases consist of 1997’s acclaimed Poor Timing and its own equally outstanding follow-up, 1999’s Eureka. O’Rourke started a long-running cooperation with Fennesz and Peter Rehberg in 1999, using the release from the Magic Audio of Fenn O’Berg on Rehberg’s Mego label. The label also released O’Rourke’s 2001 solo notebook record I’m Content, And I’m Performing, AS WELL AS A 1, 2, 3, 4. In 2001, O’Rourke released the record Insignificance featuring performances by guitarist Jeff Tweedy and Glenn Kotche of Wilco. The trio also afterwards collaborated in the medial side project Loose Hair, launching a self-titled record in 2003 and Blessed Again within the U.S.A. in 2006. A sideman and collaborator just as much as a single artist, O’Rourke provides performed as an associate of many ensembles including (& most famously) signing up for the renowned noise-rock music group Sonic Youngsters. He made an appearance on many Sonic Youngsters albums including 2002’s Murray Road and 2004’s Sonic Nurse. Departing Sonic Youngsters in 2005, O’Rourke relocated to Tokyo, Japan and continuing to perform, generate, and record. He released the experimental Hagyou in 2008 offering saxophonist Akira Sakata. In ’09 2009, he shipped the 38-minute expanded work VISITORS, which was focused on his hero, important experimental guitarist Derek Bailey. In 2011, the record Unreleased?, a cooperation with Fire!, made an appearance on Rune Grammofon. Exactly the same calendar year, O’Rourke began launching some archival single digital recordings on Editions Mego, you start with Aged Information #5. In 2015, O’Rourke produced his long-awaited go back to vocal-based vocalist/songwriter materials using the announcement of Basic Tracks, released on Pull City. O’Rourke’s 1st duo cooperation with Fennesz, It’s Hard for me personally to Say I AM SORRY, made an appearance on Editions Mego in 2016.