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Discography - with Jim O'Rourke

1. Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino
   Tima Formosa
   Black Truffle - BT 04 - release date: April 5, 2010
   1 compact disc - 3 tracks -59 minutes 42 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Oren Ambarchi - Electric Guitar
   Jim O'Rourke - Piano
   Keiji Haino - Voice + Flute, Electronics and Percussion on Track 3
   This is live recording from the January 8, 2009 concert at the Playhouse, Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, Japan.
   Concert produced by Akiko Miyake, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu. A Black Truffle / CCA co-release.
   Artwork Designed by Stephen O'Malley
   
   
   1. Tima Formosa 1 (24:44)
   2. Tima Formosa 2 (03:44)
   3. Tima Formosa 3 (31:14)
   
   
   
   cover design: unknown
   
   

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2. Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino
   
   in a flash
   
   everything       comes together       as one
   there is no       need       for a subject
   
   Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT05/mr02 - release date: March, 2011
   2xlp - 4 tracks - 70 minutes 06 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - guitar, pedal steel, air synth & vocals
   Jim O'Rourke - bass
   Oren Ambarchi - drums
   Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Jan, 24, 2010
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   Artwork: Marco Fusinato
   Titles: Keiji Haino
   Limited edition of 500 worldwide
   Medama Records is dedicated to releasing audio and visual recordings from the SuperDeluxe archive.
   
   
   1. In a Flash Everything Comes Together As One There is No Need For a Subject (19:02)
   2. The Time I Was Given and the Time You Were Given and Their Differences (16:13)
   3. Blues For Putting a Fuzz Beforehand (18:27)
   4. Once Again You Are Reading It Wrong What is Written is To Live (16:24)
   
   
   
   Design: Stephen O'Malley/Artwork: Marco Fusinato
   
   

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3. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
   Imikuzushi
   unofficial translation of title: Sweet Potato
   Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT07/mr03 - release date: February, 2012
   2xlp - 4 tracks - 1 hour 9 minutes 58 seconds
   cd - 4 tracks - 1 hour 9 minutes 58 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - guitar & vocals
   Jim O'Rourke - bass
   Oren Ambarchi - drums
   Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Jan. 6, 2011
   Images: Shunichiro Okada
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   Titles: Keiji Haino
   
   
   1. still unable to throw off that teaching... (13:28)
   2. ready and waiting... (16:44)
   3. invited in... (22:09)
   4. an acute sensitivity... (17:37)
   
   
   
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   
   

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4. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
   Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery
   Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT09/mr04 - release date: April, 2013
   lp - 6 tracks - 44 minutes 42 seconds
   cd - 6 tracks - 44 minutes 42 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - guitar & vocals & flute
   Jim O'Rourke - bass
   Oren Ambarchi - drums
   Charlemagne Palestine - wineglass (track 1)
   Eiko Ishibashi - wineglass (track 1)
   Recorded live January 30, 2012 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo by Masahide Ando
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   Titles: Keiji Haino
   
   
   1. once again i hear the beautiful vertigo... luring us to "do something somehow" (09:38)
   2. who would have thought this callous history would become my skin (05:21)
   3. Only the winding "why" expresses anything clearly (06:29)
   4. A new radiance springing forth from inside the light (09:00)
   5. even that still here and unwanted
      can you and i love it?
      just like us
      it was born here too (10:23)
   6. now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery (03:51)
   
   
   
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   
   

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5. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
   Only Wanting to Melt Beautifully Away Is It a Lack of Contentment That Stirs Affection for Those Things Said to Be as of Yet Unseen
   (alternate translation: Though my only wish is to melt away beautifully, because I am not yet content, that thing that I should not be able to see yet feels ever more dear to me)
   Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT011/mr05 - release date: June 10, 2014 (cd); October, 2014 (lp)
   lp - 2 tracks - 40 minutes 43 seconds
   cd - 1 tracks - 40 minutes 43 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - kantele, wooden flute, air synth, drum machine, tambourine & vocals
   Jim O'Rourke - 12 string acoustic guitar
   Oren Ambarchi - wineglasses, drums, percussion
   Recorded live March 13, 2013 in Tokyo
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   Titles: Keiji Haino
   
   
   1. (40:43)
   
   
   
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   
   

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6. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
   tea time for those determined to completely exhaust every bit of this body they've been given
   Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT012/mr0? - release date: January, 2015 (lp)
   lp - 3 tracks - 41 minutes 51 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - electric guitar, voice
   Jim O'Rourke - bass
   Oren Ambarchi - drums, percussion
   Recorded live March 13, 2013 in Tokyo
   This is the electric set from the same show for which the acoustic set was released in 2014.
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   Titles: Keiji Haino
   
   
   1. i don't want to drink tea so tasteless that even the intent to kill will not come to mind while drinking (12:25)
   2. let's make it a bit thicker and drink it as "n e v e r g i v e u p" (10:36)
   3. after drinking once again consider the brutality of prayer (18:50)
   
   
   
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   
   

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7. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Peter Brötzmann
   Two City Blues 2
   Trost records - TR 128 - release date: January 11, 2015
   cd - 2 tracks - 55 minutes 04 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - guitar, voice, shamisen
   Jim O'Rourke - guitar
   Peter Brötzmann- tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, tárogató
   Recorded At Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, November 23, 2010
   Mastered By - Martin Siewert
   Recorded By - Yasuo Fujimura
   Note: This is one set from the concert. The other is released on lp as Two City Blues 1.
   
   1. Two City Blues 2 (49:10)
   2. One Fine Day (06:04)
   
   
   
   Design: unknown
   
   

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8. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Peter Brötzmann
   Two City Blues 1
   Trost records - TR 126 - release date: March, 2015
   lp - 2 tracks - 38 minutes 13 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - guitar, voice, shamisen
   Jim O'Rourke - guitar
   Peter Brötzmann- tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, tárogató
   Recorded At Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, November 23, 2010
   Mastered By - Martin Siewert
   Recorded By - Yasuo Fujimura
   Note: This is one set from the concert. The other is released on cd as Two City Blues 2.
   
   1. Two City Blues 1 (16:10)
   2. Eyes Stay the Same (22:03)
   
   
   
   Design: unknown
   
   

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9. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
   I wonder if you noticed "I'm sorry" is such a lovely sound; it keeps things from getting worse
   Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT021lp/mr07 - release date: June, 2016
   lpx2 - 4 tracks - 76 minutes 41 seconds
   entry on discogs.com
   Keiji Haino - bulgari, air synth, contrabass harmonica, electric guitar & vocals
   Jim O'Rourke - bass, backing vocals
   Oren Ambarchi - drums, backing vocals
   Recorded live March 2, 2014 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   Titles: Keiji Haino
   
   
   1. Side A. Who is so cleverly manipulating The word "Everything" (18:57)
   2. Side B. Be careful of this word "New" With it's glittering trap (16:21)
   3. Side C. The universe is tired Please For just one second stop thinking (19:20)
   4. Side D. That "?" squatting proudly At the edge of surface tension Is it perhaps a mystery..? (22:03)
   
   
   
   Design: Stephen O'Malley
   
   

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10. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
    This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go?
    Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT030lp/mr08 - release date: November 17, 2017
    lpx2 - 4 tracks - 67 minutes 55 seconds
    entry on discogs.com
    Keiji Haino - toy piano, electronics, flute, electric guitar & vocals
    Jim O'Rourke - bass, EMS Synth
    Oren Ambarchi - drums
    Recorded live October, 2014 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
    Design: Stephen O'Malley
    Titles: Keiji Haino
    
    
    1. This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go? Part 1 (17:16)
    2. This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go? Part 2 (15:00)
    3. This Vertical, Opened Rift of Enlightenment If You Let Yourself Get Sucked Inside, You May Find Me There Part 1 (16:35)
    4. This Vertical, Opened Rift of Enlightenment If You Let Yourself Get Sucked Inside, You May Find Me There Part 2 (19:04)
    
    
    
    Design: Stephen O'Malley
    
    

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11. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
    In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button
    Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT050lp/mr09 - release date: September 27, 2019
    lpx2 - 5 tracks - 75 minutes 54 seconds
    cd - 5 tracks - 75 minutes 54 seconds
    entry on discogs.com
    Keiji Haino - guitar, electronics, vocals
    Jim O'Rourke - 6-string bass, Hammond organ
    Oren Ambarchi - drums, percussion, flute
    Recorded live November, 2015 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
    Design: Lasse Marhaug
    Titles: Keiji Haino
    
    
    1. In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button Part 1 (13:29)
    2. Decorously decorously decorously decorously decorously Decorously decorously decorously decorously decorously To make something beautiful and then to smash it decorously (09:38)
    3. Head-on collision If it still has bones it shall move forward (which is different to progress) (18:35)
    4. In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button Part 2 (17:35)
    5. I always walk around with a "tranquil void" in my pocket one that I may pull out at any given moment (16:37)
    
    
    
    cover: Traianos Pakioufakis
    
    

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12. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
    Each side has a depth of 5 seconds...A polka dot pattern in horizontal array...A flickering that moves vertically
    Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT074lp/mr10 - release date: May 21, 2021
    lp - 4 tracks - 37 minutes 32 seconds
    entry on bandcamp.com
    entry on discogs.com
    Keiji Haino - electronics, drum machine and suona (a Chinese double-reed horn)
    Jim O'Rourke - synthesizer
    Oren Ambarchi - pedal steel and electronics
    Recorded live February 27, 2017 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo
    Design: Lasse Marhaug
    Title: Keiji Haino
    
    
    1. Introduction (16:42)
    2. Part I (10:18)
    3. Part II (07:28)
    4. Part III (03:04)
    
    
    
    cover: Lasse Marhaug
    
    

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13. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
    "Caught In The Dilemma Of Being Made To Choose" This Makes The Modesty Which Should Never Been Closed Off Itself Continue To Ask Itself: "Ready Or Not?"
    Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT097lp/mr11 - release date: October 28, 2022
    lpx2 - 4 tracks - 80 minutes 13 seconds
    entry on bandcamp.com
    entry on discogs.com
    Keiji Haino - percussion, drums, guitar, vocals
    Jim O'Rourke - electronics, Hammond organ, bass
    Oren Ambarchi - drums, bells, gongs, guitar, cymbals
    Recorded live on September 16, 2021 at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights, New York (side A) and on December 16, 2017 at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo (sides B, C & D)
    Design: Lasse Marhaug
    Title: Keiji Haino
    
    
    1. side A: A Contradiction Has Started To Devour The Numerical Sequence We May Be Made Aware That Normal??? Exists Finally (22:34)
    2. side B: Thinking Too Deeply I Skipped Over * Three By Three (20:11)
    3. side C: "Caught In The Dilemma Of Being Made To Choose" This Makes The Modesty Which Should Never Been Closed Off Itself Continue To Ask Itself: "Ready Or Not?" Part 1, Part 2 (20:27)
    4. side D: Overtightened The Screw Of The Password To Mystery Drowns In An Infinite Number (17:01)
    
    
    
    cover: Lasse Marhaug
    
    

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14. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi
    With Pats On The Head, Just One Too Few Is Evil One Too Many Is Good That's All It Is
    Black Truffle Records/medama records - BT113lp/mr12 - release date: January 19, 2024
    lpx3 - 7 tracks - 112 minutes 57 seconds
    entry on bandcamp.com
    entry on discogs.com
    Keiji Haino - guitar, electronics, vocals, flute, snare, oboe, "Strings of Dubious Reputation" (a home-made instrument)
    Jim O'Rourke - 6-string bass, electric guitar, synth, electronics
    Oren Ambarchi - drums, percussion
    note: This is the complete live recording of their last concert at SuperDeluxe in November 2018.
    Design: Lasse Marhaug
    
    
    1. My "Watashi Dake?" is definitely not included in this unequal treaty, is it? (13:13)
    2. Right brain, left brain; right, left; right wing, left wing. Just how many combinations can be made from these? (9:58)
    3. "Critical consciousness?" That’s been abandoned in corner of a shower room in a 53-storey apartment building inhabited by extra-terrestrial lifeforms... (11:17)
    4. I thought I had pulverized it summarily but there are just too many who lack reality or who are cowards so I cannot change a thing (15:17)
    5. Still divided into pieces? Let’s reconnect them Recognise that you are a point And the longest line Let it become light (22:42)
    6. I can no longer sense that sacred feeling of expression Just the loitering of vulgar vibrations that can only be described as a half-hearted class reunion Will you consent to this? (23:34)
    7. There are always things I wish to say but I can only convey them in this language August 6 August 9 (16:59)
    
    
    
    cover: Lasse Marhaug
    
    

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