Thurston, Jim O'Rourke Ready New Original Silence LP
Front page photo by Alessandro Capodanno
Fans of logic and order will, at the very least, appreciate the title of The Second Original Silence, the second LP from free jazz/noise supergroup Original Silence. The glorious mess contained within, however, may not sit too well with that set-- more for the rest of us, I suppose.
As you may recall, Original Silence is comprised of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, man-about-town Jim O'Rourke, Swedish saxman Mats Gustafsson, Terrie Ex of the Ex, Paal Nilssen-Love of the Thing, and Zu's Massimo Puppilo. The Second Original Silence and follows last year's The First Original Silence. This new one was recorded at a September 28, 2006 performance at Rome, Italy's Brancaleone, and is due out on CD, LP, and digital August 11 from the Smalltown Superjazzz imprint. That cool cover art up there is by Kim Hiorthoy.
Original Silence have but a single gig forthcoming: a set at Oslo, Norway's Oya Festival on August 7. But Thurston, well, you know that dude's got bands for days, and those bands have gigs aplenty coming up. As for O'Rourke, he's got a new album in the pipeline and a bunch of recently reissued old albums out now on Drag City.
The Second Original Silence:
01 Argument Left Hanging - Rubber Cement
02 A Sweeping Parade of Optimism - Blood Strea
03 High trees & a Few Birds - The Doll's Reflection
04 Crepescular Refractions - Mystery Eye
Sonic Youth:
07-04 New York, NY - Battery Park *
08-04 Leucate, France - Les Méditerranéennes Festival
08-05 Lokeren, Belgium - Lokerse Festival
08-07 Oslo, Norway - Øya Festival
08-08 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
08-09 Saint-Nazaire, France - Escales Festival
* with the Feelies
Thurston Moore:
05-31 New Haven, CT - People's Center *
09-19 Monticello, NY - Kutshers Country Club (My Bloody Valentine ATP) #
09-27 New York, NY - Stone (with Northampton Wools)
* with Ryan Sawyer Duo
# performing Psychic Hearts
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