JIM O'ROURKE_EUREKA

JIM O'ROURKE EUREKA (1999) 320 KBPS What I love about Jim O'Rourke's recent solo material is the risks he takes. He not only takes risks for the traditional music listener, but takes risks for the standard "experimental" music listener. It is challenging music from any perspective, it follows no preconceived "sound". I know many people who love his other work in brise-glace and gastr del sol, and cannot stand this stuff. It just shows you that O'Rourke is not out to please anybody. He's gonna do whatever the hell he wants to do and he doesn't care one way or the other what the public thinks of it. For example, in the fourth song, it starts out with an almost gastr style solo piano part, brings in some beautifull steel drums and vibes, then a few minutes into it, all of a sudden it busts into a wailing saxophone solo that sounds like the ending of Saturday Night Live. I read he spent about 2 hours trying to get the saxophonist to play it cheezier and cheezier. Too much to handle for a lot of people, Eureka is constantly coming at you out of left feild. The album is an amazingly orchestrated album of slightly demented artistic-pop music kind of in the tradition of Van Dyke Parks. I recommend this to anyone looking for music that adheres to nobody else's standards whatsoever, and never fails to push the listener's limits. 1. Prelude To 110 Or 220/Woman Of The World 2. Ghost Ship In A Storm 3. Movie On The Way Down 4. Through The Night Softly 5. Please Patronize Our Sponsors 6. Something Big 7. Eureka 8. Happy Holidays Link password: MOODSWINGSmusic

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