Jim O'Rourke

We’re back. Today, I spoke with Jim O’Rourke, iconocalstic producer, singer-songwriter, former Wilco and Sonic Youth collaborator, from his home half way up a mountain near Tokyo. 

The interview was originally recorded to talk about Jim’s film connection for the Lost and Sound - Playtronica collab podcast, Seeing Sound, but the conversation went into different realms and spilled out into this much, much longer version. 

Jim goes deep into working with Werner Herzog, his “just do it” mentality to the creative process, his Irish roots and speaking Japanese. It was such a pleasure for me to connect with a musician whose work I love so much and for him to turn out to be such an utterly humble, entertaining and damn well revealing human. Enjoy!

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Jim O’Rourke’s Bandcamp

You can check out Seeing Sound here