Featuring previously unreleased tracks.

Jim O’Rourke and Mats Gustafsson’s Xylophonen Virtuosen album is being released on vinyl for the first time, via Trost this February.

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The duo recorded the improvised duets at Chicago’s Acme Studios during 1999, with Gustafsson on tenor sax, fluteophone, flute, and ‘junk’, and O´Rourke on guitar, accordion, and “junk”.

Trost’s release marks Xylophonen Virtuosen’s first vinyl offering, and includes a collection of previously unreleased tracks.

It follows the label’s release of Katharina Ernst’s Le Temps album, in 2021.

Pre-order Xylophonen Virtuosen here in advance of its 25th February release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

Side A

2. Paper Out

Side B

2. Low Battery

3. Calling Patti (complete take)

Side C

2. Paging Cyndi

Side D

2. …Without Fire…

3. Smoke Signaling Polly Jean (excerpt)