Kassel Jaeger & Jim O'Rourke

Kassel Jaeger is the pseudonym of French avant-garde musician François Bonnet, associated with GRM-INA. Jim O'Rourke (born 1969 in Chicago, based in Tokyo) is an American experimental musician and producer active since the late 1980s.

Jim O'Rourke has released material via Drag City and his Steamroom series on Bandcamp (Steamroom reached its 34th chapter as of April 2017). François Bonnet (Kassel Jaeger) is noted for electroacoustic work and is linked to GRM-INA; Wakes On Cerulean was released on Editions Mego.

A thoughtful, academic-leaning review of Wakes On Cerulean that frames the release as an intellectual, demanding electroacoustic album. The critic situates Jim O'Rourke's long experimental trajectory alongside Kassel Jaeger's (François Bonnet) GRM-INA work. The record is described as conceptually rigorous but not easy-listening.

For:Listeners of experimental and electroacoustic music; readers interested in avant-garde composition and conceptual listening experiences.