what are you listening to? a second wave

[grisha]

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[dave quam]

[mono tony]

does he think of himself as a realist or duz he think he is the realest? how does it compare to cormega's the realness?

[Jesse]

Mark Wastell Vibra 1

Taku Unami Intransigent Towards The Detectives Of Capital

[Jesse]

[Jesse]

I have shot right by Jim O'Rourke's output.
Could I please get some suggestions, and I will distill them down to 2-3 releases?
Are the For4ears worth checking out?
Proviso: I am especially interested in electro-acoustic projects under his name, vs. Gastr del Sol or SY. Unless he's made a great rock album I should hear.
Thanks in advance.

[jon abbey]

you should probably start a standalone thread, if we don't already have one.

the best of the F4E discs is Weighting, and he's also on the Butch Morris release on there, which was by far the most electroacoustic Morris release, at least up to that point (I haven't paid attention to Morris in recent years).

[dave quam]

halfway to a threeway

[J.F.]

John Stevens Trio with Evan Parker & Barry Guy, recorded at my 8th birthday in some club in London. The audience is noisy, and so is the music; I'm very familiar with those guys' music, but Parker's fierceness here really surprises me.

[jkudler]

I have shot right by Jim O'Rourke's output.
Could I please get some suggestions, and I will distill them down to 2-3 releases?
Are the For4ears worth checking out?
Proviso: I am especially interested in electro-acoustic projects under his name, vs. Gastr del Sol or SY. Unless he's made a great rock album I should hear.
Thanks in advance.

i'm not that into "slow motion," but i remember weighting being good, per jon's mention, and the disc with voice crack is solid as well.

gastr's "upgrade and afterlife" and "mirror repair" are seriously two of the best records ever made. you're making a mistake if you ignore them. only rock music in the most tangential sense; i think there's maybe two or three "rock beats" across both of them, and one of those is on a really, really good track ("hello spiral"). i just listened to both of these a bunch, and they blow my 29-yr old mind as much if not more than my 16-yr old mind.

i really like "eureka" a lot, but it's an odd one. semi-cheesy songs with a strong 70's rock influence and lots of odd arrangements and production choices. kind of brilliant, though.

in the vein of what you mention above, the disc on mego is great, and "happy days" is fun if you like that stuff (heavy, escalating niblock-esque drone). the earlier dronier things i have heard (both solo guitar and tape pieces) are not really essential. haven't heard much of the recent spate of reissues, limited releases, etc.

-j.

[Jesse]

gastr's "upgrade and afterlife" and "mirror repair" are seriously two of the best records ever made. you're making a mistake if you ignore them.

-j.

Wow, strong words, Jesse. I'll check 'em out (assuming they are in print/available).

[Jesse]

Thanks Jon and Dave for the O'Rourke tips.

[jkudler]

i meant for that to be a new thread, but oh well. . . .

if it helps, maybe the list of guests on "upgrade and afterlife" will entice you:
http://www.discogs.com/release/1495093

drumm, wehowsky, mats gustaffson, gunter muller, tony conrad, etc.

[dave quam]

definitely might hate me for my recommendation, its jims pop song about trying to have a threesome. Funny enough mr Pinnell recommended it as something i'd like, being really into the frogs. The only experimental side of o'rourke that i have heard is the orange record on charizma or whatever that deal is, with kevin drumm and like 4 other people(kurzmann too i believe?). Thats a cool early eai deal.

Its a fucking brilliant song though.

does he think of himself as a realist or duz he think he is the realest? how does it compare to cormega's the realness?

Cormega is definitely better. I have actually only heard his albums on cassette, and I'm really not old enough for that. Also, one of my favorite Ghostface verses ever is on his track "tony montana" off legal hustle. that verse is NANNERS. Plies is kinda fun, hes not a very good rapper by any means though, hes just got a lot of swagger. Kinda like Rick Ross, who made one incredibly dope song followed by nothing but bullshit. Also, there is already one rapper named after RICK "FREEWAY" ROSS you fuck, pick a better name.

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[Salty Swift]

I have shot right by Jim O'Rourke's output.
Could I please get some suggestions, and I will distill them down to 2-3 releases?
Are the For4ears worth checking out?
Proviso: I am especially interested in electro-acoustic projects under his name, vs. Gastr del Sol or SY. Unless he's made a great rock album I should hear.
Thanks in advance.

Jesse - I'd recommend two highlights from O'Rourke's career thus far IMO - Table, Chair and Hatstand [with Muller and VoiceCrack] and a duo with Muller entitled Slow Motion [released a few years prior to the first title mentioned].
Both were released on For4Ears and I think should still be in print.

[surfer]

That Mingus At Antibes record is fantastic.

I dont have the time to figure out my top 5 songs over on the other thread, but Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting from this disk would make it. Dolphy's solo from that song is one of the most incredible I've ever heard committed to record. Its a Pentacostal revival and he's speaking in tongues.

[surfer]

gastr's "upgrade and afterlife" and "mirror repair" are seriously two of the best records ever made.
-j.

I second this. Love these disks as well as Camofleur. "Upgrade and afterlife" also has the added bonus of having fantastic cover art, a photo by the great Roman Signer.

[eraritjaritjaka]

Starting Teeth - I Won't Do Anything I Can Do




Ami Yoshida - .

[Salty Swift]

While painting the basement...



David Murray - Flowers for Albert



Pole - Steingarten



Barry White - Let the Music Play - which incidentally features my favourite White track "You See The Trouble With Me" which I used to play on my radio show in between tracks of free improv....

Then, while driving to the store

[SOZ]

Clusone 3 - I am an Indian

Keith Rowe - ErstLive 006

Keith Rowe / Taku Unami - ErstLive 007

Curtis Mayfield - Roots

The Gladiators - Studio 1 Singles