I wouldn't say this is necesarrily the most idm of things but it is
interesting music. I wouldn't want to take away from the idm discussion of
what an idm car is or is not but I was wondering if anyone had more info on
him or had seen him perform before.
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> Thrill Jockey, address above The Lonesome Organist is a mysterious figure,
> to be sure; whatever his real story may be, it's more fun to let your
> imagination run wild and invent your own legend, to write your own
> biography of the artist, as it were, than to learn the hard facts. We'd
> like to imagine that the Organist keeps a room in the same slightly
> dilapidated antique hotel that houses Mr. Quintron, Jandek, Doo Rag, Tom
> Waits, Washington Phillips and Dr. Isaiah Ross. The Lonesome Organist is a
> one-man band, playing guitar, organ, synthesizers, vibraphone, marimba,
> steel pan drum - there's even something that sounds like it might be a
> hurdy-gurdy whirling around in there, and a cuckoo clock adorning "Make Me
> Less Lonesome." Much of his equipment roster appears to be homemade
> gadgets he's concocted himself, making his music an irrepressibly singular
> creation that's difficult to describe. Collector Of Cactus Echo Bags, his
> debut album (following a 7" released earlier this year), is a plethora of
> imaginary soundtracks to a darkly humorous Jim Jarmusch film one minute,
> or a vintage "Steamboat Willie"-style Raymond Scott cartoon the next.
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> We're happy to report that the Lonesome Organist, a.k.a. former 5ive Style
> keyboardist Jeremy Jacobsen, has grown weirder since his brilliantly
> bizarre 1998 debut album, Collector Of Cactus Echo Bags. He still sounds
> like a one-man-band with attention deficit disorder and a stockpile of
> instruments (including various organs and keyboards, harmonica,
> percussion, guitars, steel pans, etc.), but he's learned a few new tricks,
> as he now makes use of saws, samples, steel drums and even tap
> shoes. Thus, Cavalcade sounds even more adventurous and playful, if a bit
> less rootsy than Collector. One of the Organist's greatest assets is his
> insane unpredictability; he growls like Tom Waits one minute, and croons
> like a cartoonish opera singer the next. Regardless, Jacobsen never fails
> to amuse and amaze us.