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O'ROURKE, JIM - Old News #5

Format: do-LP Label & Cat.Number: Editions Mego OLD NEWS 5 Release Year: 2011 Note: four side-long tracks of the experimental / electronic / droning side of JIM O'ROURKE - material rec. 1992 (Chicago), 2003 (London), and 2010 (Toyko) - partly live... vinyl-only release ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Pedal & Pedal. Recorded live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2010. Detain The Man To Whom Recorded at Steamroom, Chicago, 1992. It's Not His Room Anymore Recorded at Steamroom, Tokyo, 2010. Mother and Who 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 monsterous 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'Rourkes live set at the 2003 All Tomorrows Parties Festival in UK. Available only in this format." [label info] www.editionsmego.com/ideologic-organ/ "Originally, the previous volumes of 'Old News' were small run edition CDRs which Jim O'Rourke sold on his tours in Japan. If you know where to look for them, you can find them on the internet somewhere. He now continues this with 'Old News #5', a 2LP with four pieces, one per side, of works from 1992, 2003 and two from last year. One of them is live, the other three studio. So far the basics. O'Rourke is a musical chameleon. He played drone music, rock with Sonic Youth, improvisation, pop-rock in his solo work, noise with Merzbow and Giffoni and usually has his guitar, laptop and modular synth at hand. These four pieces are all, it seems to me, based on his usage of the laptop and synth. If we have to look for a place where this is in his work, then I'd say this is electronic and improvised. It has that signature O'Rourke sound: hectic, nervous but also minimal - odd as that may seem. Below there are repeated sequences of organ like sounds, while on top there are nervous patterns of sound, such as in 'Mother And Who', which is the best example of that. 'Pedal And Pedal', the live piece from last year, is a beautiful light piece of waving electronics, whereas the oldest piece is a more noisy affair of crushing electronics and field recordings. Four quite different sides which make a great record. No left-overs from the past to milk the fans, but essential O'Rourke works. Great stuff." [FdW/Vital Weekly]