Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke are releasing a new collaborative album through Drag City.
Titled Pareidolia, the record is split into four pieces and is based on material that the duo played during a two-week period of shows through France, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland in 2023. It marks the fifth collaborative project between Ishibashi and O’Rourke.
The aforementioned 2023 shows marked the first time both artists has played together outside Japan. Ishibashi played flute, while both also played harmonica intermittently, and routed sounds from their laptops back to hard drives to provide further material with for the following gig. “Pareidolia’s final mix is one further rearrangement of these elements – say, a bit of Jim from Paris against Eiko in Dublin for a minute, before bringing them both back into the same room for a spell,” a press statement said.
Watch a video for a three-minute edit of the material from the full record below.
Drag City will release Pareidolia on August 29, 2025.
