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Oren Ambarchi is a prolific vanguard composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar. His solo works are hesitant and tense, with his music existing in the cracks between modern electronics and processing; improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; and visceral rock music that has been slowed down and stripped to its bare bones, then abstracted and replaced with pure signal. From the late '90s, his experiments with guitar abstraction and extended improv ...read more
Oren Ambarchi is a prolific vanguard composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar. His solo works are hesitant and tense, with his music existing in the cracks between modern electronics and processing; improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; and visceral rock music that has been slowed down and stripped to its bare bones, then abstracted and replaced with pure signal. From the late '90s, his experiments with guitar abstraction and extended improv and compositional technique have led to the creation of a unique, idiosyncratic soundworld that incorporates a broader range of instruments as well as a range of tonal dynamics and sensibilities. On Grapes from the Estate (2004) and In the Pendulum's Embrace (2007), Ambarchi employed glass harmonica, strings, bells, piano, drums, and percussion, creating fragile textures that tenuously coexist with deep, wall-shaking bass tones from his detuned electric guitars. Other solo works have explored Krautrock (2016's Hubris), post-minimalist/Fourth World influences (2019's Simian Angel), and polyrhythmic jazz (2022's Shebang). Ambarchi has not only recorded numerous solo albums but has a multitude of collaborative releases with artists such as Richard Pinhas, Fire!, Keith Rowe, and Loren Connors, to name a scant few. He has also released several live recordings with Keiji Haino and Jim O'Rourke, and participated in the trio Nazoranai with Haino and Stephen O'Malley. « hide |
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