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2025 Repress. 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. Recorded at INA GRM and Steamroom. Personnel: Eiko Ishibashi - piano; Atsuko Hatano - violin, viola; Eivind Lonning - trumpet. Cut by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle, Berlin, February 2020. Photo by Eiko Ishibashi. Sleeve design by Stephen O'Malley.
Due to the wide dynamic levels, please adjust your volume accordingly
Released in association with Shelter Press. Hype sticker on shrink. Includes a download card. Runouts are etched.
| A | Shutting Down Here | 16:24 | |
| B | Shutting Down Here | 18:49 |
“Between the folds of a conscious expressive understatement can be found the vestiges of a human feeling reduced to its minimum terms and yet vividly present, the crowning of a sound art which is entirely inner and therefore, since the beginning, timeless.”
