April 3rd, 2025
Henry Kaiser has been working in underground improv music circles since the 1970s, and was one of the first American free improv guitarists. He was influenced by one of the original free improv guitarists of the ’60s, Derek Bailey. Jim O’Rourke is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who came to prominence in the ’90s. Kaiser and O’Rourke met in 1990 at Company Week, an annual improv music festival organized by Bailey. They enjoyed playing together so much that they decided to record a CD together. Hooray! Released the following year by Canadian label Victo, Tomorrow Knows Where You Live is a long, 73-minute collection of free improv on electric and acoustic guitar in a duo setting with no overdubs.
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September 20th, 2008
Markus Popp of Oval and Jim O’Rourke at Spaceland, Los Angeles, California, 1998. Photos by Rich Jacobs.
San Diego, California
Friday, May 29, 1998
It was odd enough that a rock band, Creedle, appeared on a bill with three electronic artists; and even stranger that they played at a rock club like the Casbah. The Electric Company is Brad Laner from Medicine. His stack of rack mounts and mini-disc player was topped off by a little mixing deck, which he tweaked and twiddled for some pretty messed-up results. Disjointed beats, loops, rhythms and samples appeared and disappeared like a dance club invaded by a swarm of floods and Earthquakes. Brad seemed pretty into it for a guy standing solo behind a miniature skyscraper of technology.
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September 7th, 2008
Tony Conrad et all, 1996. Photo by Rich Jacobs.
The Empty Bottle
Chicago, Illinois
November 7, 8, 9, 1996
Since the early 1990s, the Atlanta independent label Table of the Elements has been very busy issuing many important minimal, drone, noise, improv and other experimental recordings from the past, present and future. They hosted their second gathering for like-minded individuals at The Empty Bottle, a small club right across the street from an ultra-sketchy area of Chicago.
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