O'ROURKE AND ROLL

It's been way too long! What have we become in the meantime? Starved children of O'Rourkestan, suck in your bloated guts and prepare for a feast of sounds here in the 2008! Your resuscitation begins with just a morsel or two about what's coming down the pipe. First comes an exhaustive reissue program addressing as many of the early Jim O'Rourke recordings as we can get our hot little hands on! It starts in May with reissues of Tamper (originally released on Extreme in 1991) and Osorezan (Polystar Jazz Library, 2006). After that comes Long Nights, on Streamline, a double-disc release of pure drone that dates way, way back but is only now seeing the light of day. And what a day to finally shine on it! The children of the world are weaving drone music into their everyday lives — at last! Hopefully, that happens sometime over the summer or in the fall. Then comes the main course the new Jim O'Rourke album. It should be finished sometime early this year and then who knows what'll happen, who we'll be, what music will be like then? Until we know, we're on red O'lert.