Tamper
Drag City
INDIE
Part two of the multi-part Jim O’Rourke “Old Timing” reissue series is ‘Tamper’, from 1991. ‘Tamper’ is a set of three acoustic instrumental compositions recorded on analogue tape during the final days of the first digital wave (we’re at the end of at least the third wave nowadays!).
The spaced-out minimalism of the release is as forward-looking today as it was seventeen years ago — and as such, it’s a seminal work in Jim O’Rourke’s catalogue. The three pieces move quite fluidly along — so much so that you might never consider that they’re actually mapped out in a constant series of crossfades. No particular sound lasts more than 10 or 20 seconds, a process which interprets things in its own mind.
‘Tamper’s analogue sound rises again and is a reminder of the reward that pure sound before all definition has to offer us.
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