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- Summary: The first release in the Portraits GRM series from Editions Mego features a 34-minute ambient piece from the experimental artist recorded at Studios INA-GRM in Paris.
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- Record Label: Portraits GRM
- Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Experimental Electronic, Avant-Garde Music
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Sep 2, 2020O’Rourke sails these turbulent seas deftly, making small gestures laden with significance. It’s agonising and hypnotic, the kind of art that demands commitment to spend time with. Yet, while you’re immersed in it, it feels inescapable.
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Aug 17, 2020Shutting Down Here never sacrifices the knotty complications that make his work far weightier than a mere genre study. This is a personal record, after all, and knotty might just be a big, welcome part of who Jim O’Rourke is.
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Aug 17, 2020From its eerie beginning to its twilit end, Shutting Down Here's rotating and lapping elements are remarkably conversant with each other, at times evoking works like 1995's Terminal Pharmacy and at others nodding to his prolific output in the 2010s and 2020s in mysterious and poignant ways.
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Aug 17, 2020A committed listen to O'Rourke's latest iteration reveals the piece to be understatedly eloquent, its movements and progressions restrained yet effective.
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Aug 17, 2020Yes, it's interesting – but it will leave most of those outside small academic circles feeling a little cold.