audience of one is a mix of sounds/styles. this is one of the more beautiful things i've heard in a while:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUa-lVFJlR0
― scott seward, Sunday, 7 October 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
it reminds me of BPB's 'careless love'.. just slightly. agreed it's nice
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 7 October 2012 07:02 (eleven years ago) link
Audience of One may be the best thing he's done!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 8 November 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
I just listened to this today: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17974-oren-ambarchi-keiji-haino-jim-orourke-now-while-its-still-warm-let-us-pour-in-all-the-mystery/
I think it's mostly great, much better imo than Imikuzushi, although maybe I'm something of a conservative/traditionalist for thinking so. I finally feel like their collaboration lives up to their combined talents. Their ideas are cohering into more clearly structured pieces, sometimes even songs with (really good) hooks and bass riffs and grooves. I love Haino's voice.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 23 June 2013 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
Btw, what's up with Pitchfork's numerical ratings. I don't think there's a critical word in that review, yet the album only gets a 7.7.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 23 June 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link
keep perspective, mane; one of the foremost experimental rock combos doesn't merit BNM, what would that do for the brand? :P
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 23 June 2013 06:03 (eleven years ago) link
they kinda have a hierarchy / capping system in effect for genre work i think, sund4r
― j., Sunday, 23 June 2013 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
album sounds amazing though
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 23 June 2013 06:14 (eleven years ago) link
(as in it sounds like it would be amazing, not that I've actually heard it)
The 30 minute track on Audience of One reminds me a lot of Supersilent. I'm having trouble finding more messy jazz like this. Are there any other bands I can try?
― crowhurst, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
might suggest burning star core, graveyards, close erase, humcrush, the "object" series records on locust records, selected circle records (infektio, arkades, tower), various rune grammofon releases, both the giovanni domenico/arve henriksen/tatsuhisa yamamoto releases, organum & eddie prevost "flayed", ashtray navigations, alice coltrane's "universal consciousness", the dead c. depends on whether you're after excoriant bedsit 4-track variants or the po-faced scandi fusion type, or the OG impulse records / miles "black beauty live @ fillmore west" / weather report "live in tokyo" varieties.
― massaman gai, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:38 (ten years ago) link
Not sure what "excoriant bedsit" means, but i think it's more the scandi fusion type I am after.
Thanks for the recommendations. I will check these out.
― crowhurst, Thursday, 20 February 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link
seemingly i've lost my disc of "suspension". just have an empty cover here. could somebody please tell me what the picture is on the backface of the disc so i know what i'm looking for? (brain says red /orange apples, like the cover, but that seems too easy an answer somehow)
― massaman gai, Monday, 25 August 2014 13:44 (ten years ago) link
New album Quixotism is very good. Strings, tablas, drummachine, small rhythmic differences. I like it.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 30 October 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
i still haven't found my disc of "suspension".i think i gone done put it in the wrong box. i'd be obliged if one of y'all generous folks could pop it out & be so kind as to tell me what the picture on the disc is.it'd be mighty helpful to an old duffer !
― massaman gai, Thursday, 30 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Listening to Quixoticism for the first time. Gets off to a slow start (or maybe I was just feeling impatient) but really settles into something nice.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 16 November 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
Er, Quixotism.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 16 November 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
The new Nazoranai lp is another brilliant release, they have been on fire this year.
― xelab, Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that Nazorani is wonderful. I finally heard the Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi from earlier this year, Only Wanting to Melt Beautifully... and thought it was a little bit of a letdown by comparison (and compared to some of other recent ones from that trio).
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 December 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
Nice. Didn't know about this one.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 17 December 2014 03:38 (nine years ago) link
http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS558467-01A-BIG.jpg
this new one with Haino and O'Rourke is good
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 28 February 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
well the first track on Hubris has some lovely Future Days qualities to it.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
The whole album is good, really.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
absolutely, only just got to the awesome 3rd track.
― calzino, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
album rules
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
I love how it in album cover, name and song titles seem like a followup to Quixotism. For a musician that does a shitload of projects, he is really good at making them seem as if they make sense.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
thanks for the heads up, this new one sounds awesome.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:08 (seven years ago) link
wow, hubris pt. 3 totally just blew me away. can anyone recommend something similar, by ambarchi or others?
― sonderpop, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
i wish i could - it's really, really good
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
i am not very familiar with his work, but i've been giving myself a crash course because i'm going to see him play next weekend (https://lampo.org/archive/oren-ambarchi-2018/)
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link
new, in a not dissimilar vein
https://a-ton.bandcamp.com/album/panama-suez
― j., Sunday, 9 September 2018 06:19 (six years ago) link
ooh, thanks for that.i'm excited to explore his discography because he seems to be a hub that connects to so many different kinds of musicians and kinds of music, not unlike brian eno.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 9 September 2018 06:23 (six years ago) link
The Just Reproach, with John Tilbury, is one of my favorite recordings (of either artist)
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:38 (six years ago) link
everything Oren releases is fucking dope
― duplicitously Euroseptic tankie (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
only just now listening for real… i didn't expect 'suez' would be so… wiggly
― j., Wednesday, 21 November 2018 03:51 (five years ago) link
Where I first encountered him:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXT_SfkLp4
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
i don't know what it was but my first taste of this guy a decade back (?) really rubbed me the wrong way so i thought he was not my thing when actually he was exactly my thing, live and learn
― j., Friday, 23 November 2018 02:06 (five years ago) link
Gee, I was completely oblivious to Set. Wonder if many other episodes are online... (XP)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 23 November 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/album/hence
+ jim o'rourke, from november
― j., Tuesday, 25 December 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-264
Oren Ambarchi - guitars & whatnotCyro Baptista - percussion & voiceRecorded by Randall Dunn, Joerg Hiller, Iuri Oriente and Oren Ambarchi.Edited by Joerg Hiller and Oren Ambarchi at Choose Studios, Berlin.Mixed by Joe Talia and Oren Ambarchi at Good Mixture, Tokyo.Cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.Executive Producers: Konrad Sprenger & Dick Wolf.Photography by Traianos Pakioufakis.Design by Lasse Marhaug.After a trilogy of spectacular explorations of relentlessly driving rhythms – Sagittarian Domain (2012), Quixotism (2014) and Hubris (2016) – Simian Angel finds Oren Ambarchi renewing his focus on his singular approach to the electric guitar, returning in part to the spacious canvases of classic releases like Grapes from the Estate while also following his muse down previously unexplored byways.
Recorded by Randall Dunn, Joerg Hiller, Iuri Oriente and Oren Ambarchi.Edited by Joerg Hiller and Oren Ambarchi at Choose Studios, Berlin.Mixed by Joe Talia and Oren Ambarchi at Good Mixture, Tokyo.Cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.Executive Producers: Konrad Sprenger & Dick Wolf.Photography by Traianos Pakioufakis.Design by Lasse Marhaug.
After a trilogy of spectacular explorations of relentlessly driving rhythms – Sagittarian Domain (2012), Quixotism (2014) and Hubris (2016) – Simian Angel finds Oren Ambarchi renewing his focus on his singular approach to the electric guitar, returning in part to the spacious canvases of classic releases like Grapes from the Estate while also following his muse down previously unexplored byways.
― j., Wednesday, 31 July 2019 00:46 (five years ago) link
His new album is very good (as usual).
― stranded, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 07:52 (five years ago) link
Simian Angel? that's the one I'm currently on and it's very nice.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
yeah it's fantastic!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
that's what the thread revive is about! that's what we're talking about on the internet! the power of message boards!
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
hah! what do you ppl think of Eli Keszler? his latest ep Empire sort of reminds of this a little bit and he's someone who I've got into a few of his albums now and his shtick is growing on me.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
“We Live in Pathetic Temporal Urgency,” that's a good title
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
huh evidently he was one of ambarchi's four million collaborators, i had missed that one on my last trawl for new releases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywh7Ru6rhlE
― j., Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:51 (five years ago) link
really liked eli keszler's stadium from last year, worked away at my subconscious
― ogmor, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
yeah Stadium is well worth your time.
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
I saw Eli Keszler live at this year's Rewire Festival (The Hague) and it was and amazing experience. His last EP, Empire, is also worth hearing.
― stranded, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
really enjoying this
― nxd, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
i'm listening to this a lot, it's kind of addicting.
had the stoned thought today that the whole piece feels like it's the soundtrack to a single human life. the brightness at first and then the kinetic deepening, the appearance of the drum strokes which seem to mark days, the longer blend of elements on top that are like strokes of personality, the reoccurence of those strokes, the little eddies throughout, the downshift into the vigor and seriousness of the 3rd and 4th parts, how there isn't really a climax but just this beautiful deepening/opening and then the brief release at the end.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
when abraham's piano appears at the beginning of iii, it sounds so urgent - i don't know if i've ever felt such a sense of urgency at the sound of piano before haha.
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
and one minor quibble with the reynolds review, the last piece is in the same key as the first one, just minor not major afaict
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
overall a very nice and otm review as usual
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 22:03 (one year ago) link
which review?
― Tim F, Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
sorry, sherburne, duh, *farts*
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
this one: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/oren-ambarchi-shebang/
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
i love how this is both calm and very intricate, with lots of moods represented but at a distance.
is a lot of ecm stuff really like this? divine quiet epic music?
i should go back to those early necks records.
i think oren ambarchi's guitar work is definitely the glue that holds everything together, it's really central to how iv evolves especially.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
The last Necks record, ‘Three’, was somewhat in this vein. Otherwise the closest fits are ‘Hanging Gardens’, ‘Drive-By’ and ‘Chemist’ I think.
In terms of ECM, I’d try Nik Bartsch’s Ronin and Mobile projects.
― Tim F, Friday, 28 October 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
thanks
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 28 October 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
One of the Mobile albums is even called “Ritual Groove Music” which is a great description of this general style.
― Tim F, Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
oh wow 'ritual groove music' is sounding fantastic
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 29 October 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
Check the rym list for zen-funk, map. Enjoy the rabbit hole!
― doug watson, Saturday, 29 October 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link
I wish "Hubris" was a genre so I could listen to stuff like it all day (now I just listen to "Hubris" all day)
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
i would like him to come to USA soon
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
Ghosted II out today. I thought the first one was good but not great; very into this one though.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Friday, 26 April 2024 17:42 (four months ago) link
I loved the first one, this is sounding great too.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:16 (four months ago) link
OMG i love this so much already
― Tim F, Friday, 26 April 2024 22:06 (four months ago) link
Yeah I love this too. It's basically a Necks album with guitar instead of piano, like fr.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 29 April 2024 19:02 (four months ago) link
Just getting around to this, and yeah, it's picking up right where Ghosted left off and sounding great
― Indexed, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 15:15 (two months ago) link