O'Rourke, Jim: Insignificance LP

2015, and the silence has been broken with Simple Songs. JIM O’ROURKE is ready to talk to you again. First, he wants you to know he’s not dead—yet. But you’re not, either—and really, what have you done lately? Certainly not made your first pop album since

JIM O’ROURKE returns with his first new solo album since 2001. All the classic O’Rourke-isms are here, for you musicologist types: percolating banjos, smooth electric leads, organic, kicking drum sounds, the flickering of shakers to the left and right, me

As far as renaissance men go Jim O'Rourke could handle the patronage of a very extended Medici family. As a producer his skills have brought out a mahogany toned richness in the work of Smog, Wilco and Sonic Youth to name his more mainstream clients. Sim

Another feather in the headdress of avant-rock's leading prolific chieftain Jimbo O, as he takes a cue from some of the many artists he's produced lately (SMOG, STEPHEN PRINA, FAUST, FAHEY, et al), and tries his hand at experimental pop music. Of course i

BACK IN PRINT!!! Gastr Del Sol combine country blues, avant garde, classical compostion, jazz, and pop into a blend that is utterly unique (and popular) in the marketplace today. Gastr Del Sol is the combined musical and compositional resource of Jim O'Ro

Originally released in 1996 and featuring appearances from Tony Conrad and sound artist Günter Muller, Gastr Del Sol's third album is the connoisseur's pick - a knotty and ambitious rejection of rock (or even post-rock) norms that drifts thru avant-minima

For this collaborative release, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke edited and remixed material captured at shows they played during a lovely two week tour through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland in April 2023. Pareidolia shapes an ideal collage from the

Gastr del Sol's second album returns at last to the vinyl format - its first physical manifestation in well over a decade. Once again, a drop of the needle may ignite any number of queries, summed simply in one: what IS this music? Such is the potent ener