Mori & DJ Olive

Mori & DJ Olive Artist: Kim Gordon , and Ikue Mori
Label: Sonic Youth / Syr
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 787996900520
EAN: 0787996900520
ASIN: B00004TCG6


Release Date: 2000-09-05

Mori & DJ Olive


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Tracks:

  1. Olive's horn
  2. International spy
  3. Neu Adult
  4. Paper back
  5. Stuck on gum
  6. Fried mushroom
  7. What do you want? (Kim)
  8. Lemonade
  9. We are the princeses
  10. Take it to the hit
  11. Take me back

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Even the most die-hard Sonic Youth fan must have tiptoed with trepidation toward his or her first listen of the band's major label releases in the 1990s. Yet, even the releases on the band's own SYR label, while concentrating exclusively on the most experimental end of their sonic spectrum, have been consistently fascinating and varied. The first two SYR releases were the work of the core quartet, the third added Jim O'Rourke (as a semipermanent member) and the fourth, <I>Goodbye 20th Century</I>, expanded the ensemble with seven guests. This disc is the first release on the label that is not by Sonic Youth per se--here Kim Gordon has joined forces with DJ Olive and Ikue Mori. Mori, a fixture of the downtown New York experimental scene for two decades, employs a sampler and a pile of electronic percussion that looks like it was soldered together from a mail-order kit. DJ Olive is one third of WE, who are the best of New York's so-called illbient scene. The recontextualization that the new lineup allows suits Gordon well--shorn of any need to "rock," her knotty, distorted guitar textures are settled snugly amidst the whirlwind of sound from the remainder of the trio, and her voice bobs around like a raft on a sonic sea. There's very little in the way of conventionally structured songs here, so she can stretch out a bit with some extended vocal techniques. Often ("Neu Adult," "Lemonade"), the lyrics are spread out in a way that discourages following them as a narrative. Other songs are a little more straightforward, as on "We Are the Princesses," when she's hollering "Donald Duck, kill Minnie!" Then there's the more surrealist "Paperbag/Orange Laptop" where the words are easy to understand but intriguingly difficult to make sense of. You might think that between a DJ and a drum-machine operator, something resembling a groove would emerge, but Mori never obliges and Olive remains equally abstract on this occasion--the two create a complex kaleidoscope of sounds with plenty of percussive chatter but no regular pulse. <I>-Bob Bannister</I>

Album Description

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, ex-DNA drummer/drum-machinist extraordinaire Ikue Mori, and Illbient pioneer DJ Olive embark on electro-acoustic excursions of haunting abstract beauty. <P>Taking a breather from the snazz that is/was Free Kitten (Miss Julie birthing Alice and teaching inner city high school, Yoshimi about 10,000 miles away and Mark Ibold aswamp in the madness that is Pavement) Sonic Youths femme-mystere has created a distinctly NEW trio of spontaneous composition and prose. Since reclaiming the electric guitar (her original instrument w/ SY) and developing a newfound post-Patty Waters free-vox technique she has enjoined her vision w/ the improvisational meta-talents of Ikue Mori (ex-drummer of no wave legends DNA - currently in a class by herself w/ other-world sampling) and DJ Olive (he of the wizardly WE, coiner of the ill term "illbient" and regarded by those in the heavy underground of post-beat turntable/drum + whatever as "the heaviest"). <P>Together they hit the local boards throughout 1999 and created a unified concept of sound/energy dynamix. They recorded w/ engineer Wharton Tiers and mixmaster Jim ORourke for what will be the first recording on SYR not by Sonic Youth proper (a situation which will be, possibly, expanded upon). The results, which also feature the magic fingers of CIBO MATOs Yuka Honda on a track, are at once sensuous, elegant and completely blistering. This is truly the new illprovisation rising up from ground zero.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Dissonance.......2006-05-21

The talented female Sonic Youth artist Kim Gordon And Ikue Mori (former member of DNA:taiko drums) and DJ Olive combine together dissonance, with a unique experimental atmospheric approach using electronics, distorted guitar, harmonics, to make ambient sounds,....It might take a few listens, cause it could get chaotic.....Kim expresses herself with her randomness and kind of a beat poetry style....If you like Mars, DNA, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks it should definately be a part of the experimental archive, cause this really shines through the SYR albums..

4 out of 5 stars The best of the SYR series.......2005-12-18

And I think the SYR series is a lot better than the boring schtuff SY has been foisting on us as major releases lately. This does, in fact, come together quite nicely in quite a few places--please try listening to "International Spy" once more, Mr Improv Expert Who Apparently Thinks That John Zorn And Steve Reich Qualify As Improv...well, actually, this often coalesces so well ("Stuck on Gum" is another one) that it doesn't sound entirely improvised. It's always interesting thanks to the soundscapes concocted by the super-talented Mori and Olive. In fact, Mori's own discs are more challenging, anti-melodic listens than this. If you like Matmos, Markus Popp, Christian Fennesz, and densely-layered abstract collaging of their ilk, you'll like SYR 5...but whatever you do, don't expect Murray Street: this may not be as challenging as Coleman or Coltrane, but it you will need to hear it a few times to grab onto it.

Sonic Youth need to be exploring this kind of territory in their major releases and continue the type of probing artistic statements they used to make before they met Butch Vig. Oh well...at least they do it in semi-private. Thanks for that, anyway.

4 out of 5 stars God bless the New York art scene.......2005-03-10

Sonic Youth and Co. do this kind of experimental/borderless noise-music exceedingly well, and this is very good for its kind, atmospheric and even tasteful, like jazz in the sense that it's more about texture and "sounds" than anything else. Kim Gordon's vocals give this a familiar feeling, and at times the mechanical beatbox rhythms recall the Youth's earlier "Ciccone Youth" side-project (a personal fave). My only regret is that it's almost too subdued: I was wishing there were a few more fun, let-'er-rip numbers like "We are the Princesses" ("Kill! Kill Minnie!"). Still, "Lemonade" and "Take Me Back" are nice little demented late-night blues. All in all, a sweet taste of How They Do It in New York.

1 out of 5 stars Anyone who knows anything about improv..........2003-05-22

wouldn't give this five stars. Come on people! This is a terrible record. nothing gels together. kim spouts off nonesense that isn't even good nonsense. or whatever.

5 out of 5 stars Eclectic.......2002-01-14

The muse behind husband and bandmate Thurston Moore's love of droney, tangent filled guitar lines, Kim Gordon shows her influences here. The fifth in their series of minimal, music concrete-inspired releases, this is a collaboration that collides, twists, and smashes each of its parts. DJ Olive on the turntables mixes the inklings of crackly melodies and slight orchestral washes, while Ikue Mori deals with the scrapes, the swishes, and the organic bleating of beats. Gordon takes care of the affected, alternatively-tuned guitar strumming, and breathy vocal snippets.

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