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Oren Ambarchi
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artista :
Oren Ambarchi
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titolo :
Destinationless Desire
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etichetta :
Touch
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formato : 7"
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cod. nr. ts05
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 | 2008
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Electric guitars, organ, samples, bells, percussion and motorised cymbal recorded at BJB Studios, Sydney with additional overdubs made at home 2005-2007. Gratitude to Fairport Convention and Boris D Hegenbart.
Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it's no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it's a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK).
7" vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a "healthy" popular culture. It might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of "the rear view mirror"... the generation of Touch artists who grew up with vinyl [and cassette] still feeling a strong emotional attachment to it. This series is more than that... an overtly critical, non-digital statement is supported by treatments of audio work which cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the A & the B and the additional dimension of the visual counterpoint. As for the aspect of audience participation, we choose not to specify the RPM on the label, encouraging the listener to experiment with playback options and personal preferences. An attempt to make music that works at both speeds. The front cover might actually be the back cover...
Tracklist
Side A: Highway of Diamonds 5:55
Side B: Bleeding Shadow 6:38
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artista :
Oren Ambarchi
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titolo :
In The Pendulum's Embrace
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etichetta :
Touch
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formato : CD
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packaging : digipak
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cod. nr. to:78
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| 2007
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Oren Ambarchi continues his otherworldly investigations with "In The Pendulum's Embrace", a dark twin to his landmark 2004 album "Grapes From The Estate" [Touch # TO:61]. Returning again to the hallowed halls of BJB Studios in Sydney, Ambarchi expands the scope and range of his unique musical language, incorporating an even broader pallette of instruments and sensibilities. Despite the use of glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, percussion and guitars, it's startling that the world created is still unmistakably his own, and that there is such a cohesion of vision throughout the albums's three lengthy pieces. With this record there's an even more tenuous coexistence of fragility and density; sounds as light as air mingling with wall shaking low-end. The converted already know the kind of trance-inducing euphoria of Ambarchi's music. Newcomers will be scouting the back catalogue...
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artista :
Oren Ambarchi
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titolo :
Triste
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etichetta :
Southern Lord
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formato : CD
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packaging : cardboard sleeve
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cod. nr. sunn46
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| 2005
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Expanded reissue of the Triste vinyl album, originally published on Idea. Includes all the tracks from the original version along with some remix collaborations with Tom Recchion.
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artista :
Oren Ambarchi
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titolo :
Song Of Separation [Parts 1-6]
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etichetta :
Mort Aux Vaches
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formato : CD
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packaging : custom cover
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cod. nr. mavambarchi
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Oren Ambarchi's Song Of Separation was recorded during his recent European tour and is the latest in the Mort Aux Vaches series released by Staalplaat documenting live radio concerts commissioned and broadcast by the VPRO Radio Show 'De Avonden'.
This incredible piece is a thorough investigation of concepts established on last year's SUSPENSION release (Touch, UK) and further explored on the forthcoming live lp TRISTE (Idea, USA). Here Ambarchi employs a kind of tonal pointillism, reminiscent of the work of Morton Feldman, to explore the relativity of various frequencies cocooned between silences. These disembodied notes are incrementally layered taking on new value and meaning as they beat and resonate in sympathy with each other. Often sounds beginning in unison are turned against each other as new tones are brought into play. Never has Oren's melodic sensibility been so evident; "Song Of Separation" documents a crucial stage in the work of this tireless innovator.
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artista :
Oren Ambarchi
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titolo :
Suspension
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etichetta :
Touch
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formato : CD
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packaging : digipak
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cod. nr. to33.18
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This is a reissue of the highly acclaimed 2001 album, Suspension by Australian musician Oren Ambarchi. He has released three albums for Touch: Insulation, Suspension and Grapes from the Estate. Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. Born in Sydney in 1969, he has been performing live since 1986. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it's no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it's a laboratory for extended sonic investigation. As the title of this release suggests, the listener is suspended in dense tonal fields or complete silence; adrift, never touching the bottom, never reaching the surface but continually held in the realm of the instant. Movement and flux contend with stasis and rigidity. Sounds continually unravel and solidify. These works are endless, eternal, never opting for obvious resolutions or easy destinations. Often beginning in abstraction, seemingly random and irregular pulses and tones coalesce and converge. All elements are part of a greater logic, which reveals itself through intense, immersive and repeated listenings. Ambarchi has performed and recorded with Martin Ng, Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Pimmon, John Zorn, Voice Crack, Sachiko M, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Günter Müller, Evan Parker, Toshimaru Nakamura and many more. He recently toured with Sunn0))), also contributing to their Black One album.
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artista :
4G
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titolo :
Cloud
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etichetta :
Erstwhile
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formato : 2xCD
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packaging : jewel case
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cod. nr. erstwhile046
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| 2005
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The four gentlemen of the guitar are:
Keith Rowe guitar, electronics
Oren Ambarchi guitar, electronics
Christian Fennesz guitar, computer
Toshimaru Nakamura no-input mixing board
Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Christian Fennesz and Toshimaru Nakamura are four of the most prominent and influential musicians in experimental music today, each with extensive discographies and distinctive styles. In mid-2004, they formed the Four Gentlemen of the Guitar (4g), and played a series of shows in Europe and Canada, three of which are contained on cloud. The underlying concept of 4g is to unite four artists who each began their musical explorations as guitarists, keeping that mindset as a crucial underpinning of their work as they've each explored increasingly abstract territory, both with and without guitars.
There have been two larger group releases featuring three of these four musicians, Afternoon Tea (Ritornell) has Rowe, Ambarchi and Fennesz, and the 7 guitar disc on the AMPLIFY 2002 box has Rowe, Ambarchi and Nakamura, but the 4g project is the first time all four have performed together. cloud contains three performances (from Vand'ouevre, Paris and Victoriaville) from their seven city tour in May/June 2004, totalling over two hours of music. The widely differing aesthetics of the four musicians meld fluidly, forming hovering, delicate masses of sound. The packaging meshes Rowe's striking cover painting with Friederike Paetzold's eyecatching design.
|| THE FOUR GENTLEMEN OF THE GUITAR ||
At the centre of this project is the guitar, perhaps the world's most ubiquitous instrument. Here we are looking at its extended possibilities - that is to say rather than summing up guitar-ness in a Picasso-like way, we would be more interested in Mondrianesque extensions.
Christian and Toshi, although both guitar players, have performed in public mostly on instruments that have become physical and musical extensions of the guitar. In my case, along with Oren, we preserved the basic form of the guitar, obviously exploring its "non-guitarlike" possibilities, but always maintaining its essential "guitar-ness".
How might a Japanese, an Australian, an Austrian and an Englishman with very different musical and artistic personalities explore in real-time the world's most global instrument, incorporating boomerang loop stations, digital effects, mixing boards, computers etc.?
The quartet form "at first was a medium that allowed four gentlemen amateurs to converse musically"*, and from Haydn's time became the appropriate medium that produced music of the deepest personal expression and contemplative profundity.
So here we have four gentlemen, the guitar, a conversation between the analog and the digital, the north and the south.
[Keith Rowe]
* "the string quartet" a history, Paul Griffiths
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artista :
Oren Ambarchi - Günter Müller - Voice Crack
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titolo :
Oystered
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etichetta :
Audiosphere
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formato : CD
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packaging : super jewel case
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cod. nr. as06
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| 2003
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Extraordinary sounds out of everyday objects. There's such cohesion, wholeness and single mindedness to these pieces that makes identification of the individuals involved virtually impossible.
Oren Ambarchi: Guitar & Electronic
Günter Müller: Selected Percussion, MD's, Electronics
Voice Crack: Electronics.
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