Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - Albumin Artist_Jay-Z with lino in hand

with lino in hand

“I think that's one of the really beautiful things about the band—how organically the way that we play together has come about and evolved over time

it was suggested to set one piece of American music from each age (60's ~ 90's) and the next song we picked was The Beach Boys’ version of Do You Wanna Dance

But that makes our lives unique and invaluable

Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - Albumin Artist_Jay-Z with lino in handJim O'Rourke and Jos Smolders teamed up again after their first collaboration, Additive Inverse from 2021. Over a period of three years, both artists worked in sessions of a day, each in their own studio. The result is sometimes like a warm cloud of sounds, suddenly breaking up into a rhythmic, irregular pattern, after which it dives into introverted mindsets. The music is in constant flux The project followed the same workflow, but this time Jim took