Luke Combs this is not. Fourteen years after its initial chart-topping 1988 release, sonic chameleon Jim O’Rourke laid hands on Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” in 2002 while touring Japan. Where the original tracks just under five minutes, O’Rourke’s alchemy transmutes the iconic riff into a thirty-three minute atmospheric drone. In a word, hypnotic.
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Gastr del Sol :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Back in April, we had the great pleasure of speaking with Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs, two of our longtime musical heroes. Our conversation coincided with the release of Gastr del Sol’s new archival compilation, We Have Dozens of Titles, available now from Drag City Records. Over 25 years after disbanding the project in 1998, Grubbs and O’Rourke have assembled a beautifully flowing collection of previously unreleased recordings, bookended by excerpts from the duo’s performance at the Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville.
Jim O’Rourke :: Calder Walk (Whitney Museum)
As one never steps into the same river twice, so one never glimpses a Calder mobile in quite the same way again. Once set into motion, the pieces in “ Alexander Calder: Hypermobility ,” now […]
Jim O’Rourke :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Chances are Jim O’Rourke’s name is somewhere in your record collection. As a musician and producer, he’s worked with some of the most important artists and bands of the last three decades: […]