Plan single gig in Norway that'll probably turn up as Original Silence LP4 in a few years

Front page photo by Alessandro Capodanno

Fans of logic and order will, at the very least, appreciate the title of The Second Original Silence, the second LP from free jazz/noise supergroup Original Silence. The glorious mess contained within, however, may not sit too well with that set-- more for the rest of us, I suppose.

As you may recall, Original Silence is comprised of Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, man-about-town Jim O'Rourke, Swedish saxman Mats Gustafsson, Terrie Ex of the Ex, Paal Nilssen-Love of the Thing, and Zu's Massimo Puppilo. The Second Original Silence and follows last year's The First Original Silence. This new one was recorded at a September 28, 2006 performance at Rome, Italy's Brancaleone, and is due out on CD, LP, and digital August 11 from the Smalltown Superjazzz imprint. That cool cover art up there is by Kim Hiorthoy.

Original Silence have but a single gig forthcoming: a set at Oslo, Norway's Oya Festival on August 7. But Thurston, well, you know that dude's got bands for days, and those bands have gigs aplenty coming up. As for O'Rourke, he's got a new album in the pipeline and a bunch of recently reissued old albums out now on Drag City. [MORE...]