2006/09/08

John Fahey & Jim O'rourke - Live on WNUR

this session from 30/05/1998 yielded 35 minutes of lovely deconstructed folk and blues floating in a river of drone and elongated feedback. Jim can sometimes be stand-offishly oblique, and John's later period can be difficult (womblife), but this session is somber yet warm and fuzzy, atonal and foreboding yet soothing in a heavy hearted sort of way. maybe it's not even that heavy... just a solid good listen all around. the photo is not from this session, if it was, well for one thing it'd be in a cramped radio station, but also Jim would probably be surrounded by laptops and what not. enjoy.

http://rapidshare.de/files/32052018/John_fahey___
Jim_o_rourke__live___WNUR.zip.html

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, I tried to download this, but the file was reported as not found. Is there something wrong withe link? Thanks!

zhao said...

link works. try again and make sure there are no extra spaces in there.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful music! Thank you

Empedocle

Anonymous said...

Confucius, I check out your blog too infrequently. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes challenging, always interesting. My thanks and regards, oiche

Anonymous said...

and then, all of a sudden, debussy!

zhao said...

wha? Debussy? where?

Anonymous said...

debussy's 'jimbo's lullaby" (from the children's corner) starts around 16.20, I think. originally for piano, here with the guitar over orchestra samples...

zhao said...

that is a mighty nice bit of trainspotting there, Anonymous! this would be Fahey's doing...

Curved Air said...

ohhhh for all things good and wonderful, can you please please please re-up this share. i missed this and am heart aching to hear.

mucho thx
CA

Anonymous said...

any chance of a re-post?

timjuerk said...

please repost this!

Anonymous said...

Dear god i've been looking all over for something this, but the link is dead is there anyway you could upload it again? Thanks.

me said...

can you pleae repost this link.

thanks if you can


november 20th

Art Simon said...

I'd be interested in a re-up as well. In return can I offer these?

City of Refuge:
http://rapidshare.com/files/177706333/City_Of_Refuge.zip

Here's Womblife:
http://rapidshare.com/files/177678059/Womblife.zip.html

And Hitomi:
http://rapidshare.com/files/177678063/Hitomi.zip.html

Thanks!

Art Simon said...

Try:
http://rapidshare.com/files/179854353/1998_-_John_Fahey___Jim_O_Rourke_-_Live_at_WNUR_Studios.zip

Anonymous said...

What is the password for these?