us Jim O'Rourke: Long Night, Long Wait

Experimental Guitarist Jim O’Rourke has shed a little light on the current state of his new album, which he has now been working on for a full seven years. Talking to Josh Ronsen for the free and fantastic Austin-based magazine “Monk Mink Pink Punk” in what could be his first interview in ages, O’Rourke stated that he’s “been slowly working on my record, which is driving me batty”, stressing the fact that he had purposely confined himself this time: “I got in this mode, where I can actually make all the decisions, and I don't mean that in a control sense of the word, but where every aspect really does have to reflect how I see it. Working with other people is great because it puts you in places you wouldn’t head towards while giving you a different perspective on it than you would have on your own, it’s a very different situation, and a real different way of working.” For the moment, however, he was still revelling in the pleasures of his new home Japan, studying the language and watching movies.

Despite Jim O’Rourke claiming not to know what album he was working on exactly, he did reveal that there were actually two full-lengths he was conceptualising. One of them was (as always) going to defy people’s expectations and “pretty much going to disappoint everybody”, while the other might well be what “people will have been hoping for” – if it was ever going to be released, that is: “It’s gonna take forever to record, if it is going to be at all possible. I’m gonna try.” For the complete interview, head over to the site of Monk Mink Pink Punk, which also features a conversation with Michael Northam, a review of the Kenneth Gaburo disc on Pogus as well as two exciting features on “Israeli Noise Music” and “African, Mid-eastern and Asian Noise Music”.

Even though the abovementioned news implies that new material by Jim O’Rourke is not exactly immanent, his fans can find some comfort in the fact that there is still plenty of good stuff to be pulled from the proverbial archives. “Long Night”, scheduled for August 8th, is a double CD release, featuring a 2,5 hour long dronescape realised by O’Rourke at the time of his graduation from music school. To be released on Drag City/Streamline, it offers a look into the earliest days of his oeuvre in a remastered edition.

Homepage: Drag City Records
Homepage: Monk Mink Pink Punk
By Tobias Fischer, published 2008-07-31

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