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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A lot is made of the similarity to O'Rourke's more song/pop based albums. Sonically there are definite connections with 'Eureka', 'Bad Timing', `Insignificance' and the ep ` Half Way To A Threeway'.
However, I feel this is another collage album in the spirit of O'Rourke work as producer of `When In Vanitas', `Rein' and `Hoffman Estates'.
`The Visitor' is a series of beautifully compatible musical fragments. The joins are smooth, overlaid subtly. It changes often, quickly becoming a potent flow of passages, twisting and turning through acoustic moments and slowly develops into a beautiful piano-drum-banjo groove after over 32 minutes...
It works beautifully on repeat as well as the whole thing sound so gorgeous.
Jim O'Rourke has been a favourite of mine for over 15 years and it's his range of music that blows me away.
`The Visitor' is example of him offering yet another take on what experiment music can sound like.
Perhaps this would be the album Bowie's character would have made in the film `The Man Who Fell To Earth' - beautifully pop snippets caught whilst flicking through radio stations...
Highly, highly recommended.
However, I feel this is another collage album in the spirit of O'Rourke work as producer of `When In Vanitas', `Rein' and `Hoffman Estates'.
`The Visitor' is a series of beautifully compatible musical fragments. The joins are smooth, overlaid subtly. It changes often, quickly becoming a potent flow of passages, twisting and turning through acoustic moments and slowly develops into a beautiful piano-drum-banjo groove after over 32 minutes...
It works beautifully on repeat as well as the whole thing sound so gorgeous.
Jim O'Rourke has been a favourite of mine for over 15 years and it's his range of music that blows me away.
`The Visitor' is example of him offering yet another take on what experiment music can sound like.
Perhaps this would be the album Bowie's character would have made in the film `The Man Who Fell To Earth' - beautifully pop snippets caught whilst flicking through radio stations...
Highly, highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
September 30 2009: One week on, and I'm still digesting this 38 minute piece. It's a remarkable one-man achievement, apparently comprising 200 audio tracks lovingly edited together and featuring O'Rourke on all instrumental duties. It comes with the exhortation to play loud, making me glad I purchased a CD for my Hi-Fi rather than a download for my computer. This music demands your attention, and it's worth it. No mere background 'soundtrack to your life' nonsense, this is music to be listened to. If only I could experience it live in the Albert Hall! Its frequently warm and engaging character has the same kind of effect on me as Peter Broderick's 21st century laptop folk-rock on Home. If you can imagine the unlikely fusion of Messiaen's compositional talents with James Blackshaw's guitar skills then you might have some idea of what Jim O'Rourke has achieved with The Visitor. It's kind of different, and it's wonderful. This music enables you to plunge into a bath of bliss and curiosity.
March 2010: And this is still a regular favourite!
March 2010: And this is still a regular favourite!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Jim O'Rourke has the ability to completely wow me musically and lyrically. As this is an instrumental album (and I'm fine with that) lets forget about words for now.
I find this album to be really frustrating because of its stop/start nature. Some of the 'groove' based passages are thrilling and beautiful, but they are interspersed by a short acoustic guitar passage time after time and it becomes too predictable and ....frustrating. Was it the nature of the composition of the piece? Small bits being created over time then forced together as one (incoherent) song. Nevertheless, good to listen to on a car journey or on the way to work.
I find this album to be really frustrating because of its stop/start nature. Some of the 'groove' based passages are thrilling and beautiful, but they are interspersed by a short acoustic guitar passage time after time and it becomes too predictable and ....frustrating. Was it the nature of the composition of the piece? Small bits being created over time then forced together as one (incoherent) song. Nevertheless, good to listen to on a car journey or on the way to work.
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