Editorial Reviews
Eureka
Music Review:
Music Review
New Romantics Are Back [Import]
Great Moments of . . . Edda Moser [Box set]
Music: Paws Across the World 2003
Music Review: #1 Hits [Box set]
Forever Gold Live [Live] [Original recording remastered]
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Take one genius experimental guitar player well versed in the making of arty found-sound music and angular postrock. Cut him loose from his band, introduce him to fingerpicked guitar stylings and lush, orchestral pop production, and then leave him alone to create his masterpiece. The result? Jim O'Rourke's Eureka, an unabashedly beautiful work. --Mike McGonigal
Amazon.com
Jim O'Rourke has undergone a radical transformation since leaving Chicago's rock-improv ensemble Gastr Del Sol. While previously enjoying the singular role of avant-garde guitar hero, O'Rourke has slowly blossomed into a skillful producer with an extremely refined artistic sense. On Eureka he embraces an orchestral pop motif replete with horns, strings, and even female background vocalists. While O'Rourke's music reveals a strong debt to guitarist John Fahey and arranger Van Dyke Parks, it is... read more