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| | | old news (austria) #old news 5 lp jim o’rourke “old news no. 5” double long playing record set - pedal & pedal (15:54)
- detain the man to whom (20:20)
- it's not his room anymore (19:05)
- mother and who (16:32)
| may 2011 release ; ... despite the catalogue number, this is the debut release on “old news” ; an (editions) mego sub-label set up to issue contemporary & formative work by jim o’rourke ...
this collection, featuring four side-length pieces recorded over an 18-year stretch, starts out with a bang ; namely “pedal & pedal” ‘s lovely floating aphorisms, owing (more than) a little bit to alvin curran’s prime-era work ... from there, the crackling morass of analogue mid-high tones, metallic klang, & grinding encephalography of “detain the man to whom” go in the other direction (listen to the sound-sample for an extended sip from wells on deep) ...
record #2 picks up with a gorgeously minimal, reverb-bathed synth-overdub piece that invokes the chattering splendor & odd, a-linear temperaments of tom hamilton & françois bayle’s live-electronic work, which leads directly into the b&m of the closing “mother and who” (which approaches the kind(s) of live-synthi blow-outs that hiroshi “astro” hasegawa has been dropping as of late) before receding into the aleatorical tonal wanderlust of the opening cut ...
... unlike the purely static / drone-based music jim has been pulling deep from his “archives” over the past few, these pieces are each tiny festivals of micro-detail ; personally speaking i’m hearing this as one of jim’s best releases thusfar (i can only wonder where he’ll take the series from here) ; highly recommended !!! |
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jim o'rourke
old news no. 5
2lp
1 recorded live at super deluxe, tokyo, 2010
2 recorded at steamroom, chicago, 1992
3 recorded at steamroom, tokyo, 2010
4 recorded at steamroom mobile, london, 2003
introducing a nearly regular series of vinyl albums documenting analog synth and tape works (both studio and live) from the depths of jim o’rourke’s archive, spanning a near quarter century of active duty in the field.
old news #5 kicks off with pedal and pedal, a refined beauty of a live set at tokyo’s super deluxe, to only be followed by a massive blast from the past in the shape of the monstrous detain the man to whom, recorded in 1992.
record two delivers the genuine weirdness of studio session its not his room anymore, backed with the ripping mother and who, which is an alternative version of what would become o’rourke’s live set at the 2003 all tomorrows parties festival in uk.
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