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    Henry Kaiser + Jim O’Rourke – Tomorrow Knows Where You Live

    April 3rd, 2025

    Henry Kaiser + Jim O'Rourke - Tomorrow Knows Where You Live

    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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    Table of the Elements Festival No. 2: Yttrium

    September 7th, 2008

    Tony Conrad at Table of the Elements Yttrium Festival, 1996.
    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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