Jim O'Rourke is tagged as: experimental, post-rock, indie, avant-garde, indie rock American indie rock and avant-garde musician, composer and producer Jim O’Rourke has been a key component in the increasing overlap of the American and European experimental music avant-garde, working in everything from jazz and rock to ambient and electro-acoustic and building many a bridge in between. A Chicago native, his work has found equal luck with experimental jazz and noise fanatics, chill room denizens, and bedroom experimentalists, and has had the resultant effect of cross-pollinating many otherwise isolated compositional communities. Dealing most often with prepared guitar in improvisational group settings, O’Rourke has also released a fair bit of material as a soloist, although more often in the electro-acoustic/musique concrète vein. He’s collaborated with such contemporary improv heroes as Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Eddie Prevost and Keith Rowe (of English improv group AMM), KK Null, David Jackman (Organum), and early krautrock experimentalists Faust. O’Rourke is also engaged in an ongoing exploration of experimental rock as a member of Gastr Del Sol, who’ve released albums through the Teen Beat and Table of the Elements labels. Beginning with guitar at the age of 6, it wasn’t until his collegiate career at DePaul University... Read More About Jim O'Rourke Biography...  Send Jim O'Rourke ringtones to your cell
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