Jim O'Rourke (musician)
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 O'Rourke in Stockholm 2005
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| Background information | ||
| Born | January 18, 1969 | |
| Origin | Chicago | |
| Genre(s) | Experimental rock Chamber pop Indie rock Post-rock |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician Producer |
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| Instrument(s) | Guitar | |
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Sonic Youth Gastr del Sol Loose Fur |
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Jim O'Rourke (born January 18, 1969) is an American musician and producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene.
Known for his idiosyncratic tastes, and regarded as something of an expert on modern experimental music, he has released albums of jazz, noise and guitar rock music. O'Rourke has collaborated with the likes of Bobby Conn, Derek Bailey, Stereolab, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Nurse With Wound, Fennesz, Organum, Henry Kaiser, Flying Saucer Attack, and most recently produced Joanna Newsom's new album Ys.
He has produced albums by artists as varied as John Fahey, Smog, Faust, Tony Conrad and Beth Orton (to great effect in 2006 with Comfort of Strangers). He mixed Wilco's very successful Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album, which made many reviewers' top ten lists for 2002, and produced their 2004 album, A Ghost is Born, for which he won a Grammy for "Best Alternative Album". During the recording of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, O'Rourke collaborated with Wilco member Jeff Tweedy and pre-Wilco Glenn Kotche, a veteran of the Chicago scene and O'Rourke's own solo albums, under the name Loose Fur. Their self-titled debut was released in 2003. Tweedy and Kotche also joined O'Rourke as session musicians on his 2001 album Insignificance.
O'Rourke has released a large number of albums and was once a member of Gastr Del Sol and the Red Crayola. From 2000 he played bass guitar and guitar with Sonic Youth; he quit as a full member in 2005 to pursue his interest in filmmaking, but continues to play with them in their side projects.
With music director Takehisa Kosugi, he played for the Merce Cunningham dance company for 4 years.
He worked as a music consultant for the popular 2003 film, School of Rock.
He has also scored films by such filmmakers including Werner Herzog, Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama, and others.
His own films have been part of the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2005 Rotterdam Film Festival.
[edit] Partial solo discography
- Mizu No Nai Umi (vector7/ HEADZ54 2006)
- I’m Happy and I’m Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4 (Mego 2001)
- Insignificance (Drag City 2001)
- Halfway to a Threeway EP (Drag City 1999)
- Eureka (Drag City 1999)
- Bad Timing (Drag City 1997)
- Happy Days (Revenant Records 1997)
- Terminal Pharmacy (Tzadik 1995)
- Rules of Reduction (Metamkine 1993)
- Remove the Need (Extreme Records 1993)
- Scend (Divided Records 1992)
- Disengage (Staalplaat 1992)
- Tamper (Extreme Records 1991)
- The Ground Below Above Our Heads (Entenpfuhl 1991)
- Secure on the Loose Rim (Sound of Pig 1991)
- Some Kind of Pagan (Sound of Pig 1989)
[edit] External links
| Wilco |
| Jeff Tweedy | John Stirratt | Nels Cline | Glenn Kotche | Pat Sansone | Mikael Jorgensen |
| Ken Coomer | Max Johnston | Jay Bennett | Leroy Bach | Jim O'Rourke |
| Discography |
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| Albums and extended plays: A.M. | Being There | Mermaid Avenue | Summerteeth | Mermaid Avenue Vol. II | Yankee Hotel Foxtrot | More Like the Moon | A Ghost Is Born | Kicking Television: Live in Chicago |
| Singles: Box Full of Letters | Outtasite (Outta Mind) | Can't Stand It | A Shot in the Arm | War on War |
| DVDs: Man in the Sand | I Am Trying to Break Your Heart |
| Related articles |
| Uncle Tupelo | Billy Bragg | The Wilco Book | Loose Fur | Down With Wilco | Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest | Golden Smog |
