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Posts Tagged Jim O’Rourke

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October 30, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Kassel Jaeger / Jim O’Rourke: In Cobalt Aura Sleeps

Kassel Jaeger / Jim O’Rourke In Cobalt Aura Sleeps Editions Mego This is the second collaboration between Paris-based electro-acoustic composer Kassel Jaeger and Chicago sonic experimenter Jim O’Rourke. They found themselves as kindred souls making creeping, progressive ambient music that built up atmospheres and then sought to destroy them.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, In Cobalt Aura Sleeps, In Cobalt Aura Sleeps 1, In Cobalt Aura Sleeps 2, Jim O'Rourke, Kassel Jaeger, Kassel Jaeger / Jim O’Rourke, Kassel Jaeger / Jim O’Rourke: In Cobalt Aura Sleeps, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Oren Ambarchi / Jim O’Rourke: Behold

Oren Ambarchi / Jim O’Rourke Behold Editions Mego Here with their second duo collaborative album are two guitarists who are both in fact multi-instrumentalists, Australian Oren Ambarchi and American Jim O’Rourke. Behold, as with the pair’s previous outing, Indeed, splits a single piece of music across two tracks – or two sides, for vinyl devotees.  […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Behold, Glacial, Improv, Improvisations, Improvisatory, Indeed, Jim O'Rourke, On Jones Beach, Oren Ambarchi, Oren Ambarchi / Jim O’Rourke ·

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August 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

S. Carey: Range of Light

S. Carey Range of Light Jagjaguwar It’s interesting listening to S. Carey’s album, Range of Light and knowing it was recorded at Justin Vernon’s studio after Carey had toured with Vernon’s band. For Range of Light feels, and not to its detriment, like the material from Vernon’s first Bon Iver album if recorded in the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bon Iver, Jim O'Rourke, Justin Vernon, Range of Light, S. Carey, Sean Carey, Sufjan Stevens ·

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September 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Kinski: Cosy Moments

Kinski Cosy Moments Kill Rock Stars Here you will hear Kinski sounding more like Mudhoney, Nirvana and Sonic Youth – especially the Sonic Youth of the last half-decade – a sort of classic-rock-esque take on grunge; Cosy Moments could have been released twenty years ago. Strange perhaps but I really dig it. It’s nearly a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Cosy Moments, Don't Climb On And Take The Holy Water, Grunge, Jim O'Rourke, Kill Rock Stars, Kinski, Melvins, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Sonic Youth ·

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