Shutting Down Here

by Jim O'Rourke

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alain.proust With the entanglement and interaction of noise and musical tone, we seem to have traveled through the jungle infested by ghosts, and witnessed a new universe being reborn in this strange chaos and harmony. Through this recording, Jim O’Rourke reconstructed the order of sound in a sense.
aminder14
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aminder14 Very focused. Blending of different styles. Needs to be heard
Stefano
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Stefano This record sounds like a continuous dialogue between the three instruments involved and reveals a fine texture of tones very well supported by the high resolution of the release. Various quotes from Morton Feldman appear now and then in the texture of the piece("Bass Clarinet and Percussion", "Rotkho Chapel") and make the whole even more precious to my ears
Alec L. Critten
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Alec L. Critten A fully-realized tour de force, depicting a strange and beautiful alien landscape. The anti-"Visitor" in execution, yet with the same transportive effect in all its 96khz/24bit, fully-dynamic glory. This is music of a rare breed - disquieting yet exquisite.
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Andreas Bonkowski Outstanding work, love it!
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Shutting Down Here is a special work. Symbolically, it covers a period of thirty years, between two visits by Jim O'Rourke to the GRM, the first, as a young man fascinated by the institution and his repertoire, the second, as an accomplished musician, influential and imbued with an aura of mystery. Shutting Down Here is a piece shaped like an universe, a heterogeneous world in which collides the multiple musical facets of Jim O'Rourke: instrumental writing, field recordings, electronic textures and cybernetic becomings, dynamic spaces, harmonic spaces, silent spans . This variety of approach, strangely, does not in any way weaken the coherence of the whole and this is the talent of Jim O'Rourke, a talent, properly speaking, of composition, where all the sound elements compete and participate to stakes that exceed them and of a common destiny, that is to say of an apparition.


Released in association with Editions Mego.
Coordination GRM: François Bonnet, Jules Négrier

Executive Production: Peter Rehberg

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released May 20, 2020

Shutting Down Here
2019 / 35’13

Recorded at INA GRM and Steamroom

Piano: Eiko Ishibashi // Violin, viola: Atsuko Hatano // Trumpet: Eivind Lonning

Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, February 2020

Photo by Eiko Ishibashi // Sleeve design by Stephen O’Malley

Special thanks to Francois Bonnet and Jean Schwarz for bookending 30 years
Due to the wide dynamic levels, please adjust your volume accordingly

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Portraits GRM Paris, France

INA GRM and Editions MEGO are pleased to announce the creation of a new collection of releases, the Portraits GRM series.
Perpetrating the fertile collaboration initiated in 2012 with Recollection GRM, the GRM and Editions MEGO have decided to offer a complementary series, no longer focused on the “classic” GRM repertoire but towards recent creations commissioned by the GRM.
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