‘A moody, atmospheric delight. Jim’s roots in composition via tape-editing have evolved into a highly musical assembly of found-and-processed sounds that achieve near-orchestral majesty as they hang in the very air of the drama that unfolds in Kyle Armstrong’s Hands That Bind.
‘Described as a ‘slow-burn prairie gothic drama’, set in the farmland of Canada’s Alberta province, and starring Will Oldham and Bruce Dern, Hands That Bind is a spellbinding trip to the existential bone of rural working life in North America. As conflict rises over hard worked patches of land to provide a mere and mean existence, a desperate air settles in, as a series of mysterious, often supernatural occurrences rock the small community.
‘O’Rourke’s vaporous, serpentine musical backdrops and atmospheres reflect the obsessions and distractions of the film’s principles; moods of all sorts seen or otherwise implied. Additionally, the music highlights cinematographer Michael Robert McLaughlin’s closely observed accounting of the farmers’ environment, as well as the striking widescreen images of the big sky country with unnerving flair.’

A selection of her Minit and Bandy sevens, from 1960-63.
Unmissable New Orleans soul, killers galore, with Aaron Neville shining through the compositions, and superb, rawly emotional singing.
Somebody Told You, Cry On, Breakaway, It’s Raining, Ruler Of My Heart, How I Wish Someone Would Care…

More compelling salvage from his 1970s period with Clinton Moon’s Showtime Productions, debuting the ballads We’ve Got To Get It Together and Child’s Play, the social protest of Today Is A New Day and Singing In Poverty, and dancefloor action like Total Love, A Case Of The Boogie and the sensual Gimme A Little Action — besides top-notch alternate mixes, like So Tied Up and What’s It Gonna Be from The Show Must Go On, and new versions of Alpaca Phase Three’s Someone To Run To, featuring a previously unheard SD rap, and Touch Me With Your Love, adding more than a minute…