S/D: Oren Ambarchi (and projects)

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?

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.

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.

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)

New album Quixotism is very good. Strings, tablas, drummachine, small rhythmic differences. I like it.

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 !

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.

Er, Quixotism.

The new Nazoranai lp is another brilliant release, they have been on fire this year.

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).

Nice. Didn't know about this one.

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS558467-01A-BIG.jpg

this new one with Haino and O'Rourke is good

well the first track on Hubris has some lovely Future Days qualities to it.

The whole album is good, really.

absolutely, only just got to the awesome 3rd track.

album rules

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.

thanks for the heads up, this new one sounds awesome.

wow, hubris pt. 3 totally just blew me away. can anyone recommend something similar, by ambarchi or others?

i wish i could - it's really, really good

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/)

new, in a not dissimilar vein

https://a-ton.bandcamp.com/album/panama-suez

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.

The Just Reproach, with John Tilbury, is one of my favorite recordings (of either artist)

everything Oren releases is fucking dope

only just now listening for real… i didn't expect 'suez' would be so… wiggly

Where I first encountered him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNXT_SfkLp4

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

Gee, I was completely oblivious to Set. Wonder if many other episodes are online... (XP)

https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/album/hence

+ jim o'rourke, from november

http://editionsmego.com/release/EMEGO-264

Oren Ambarchi - guitars & whatnot
Cyro Baptista - percussion & voice

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.

His new album is very good (as usual).

Simian Angel? that's the one I'm currently on and it's very nice.

yeah it's fantastic!

that's what the thread revive is about! that's what we're talking about on the internet! the power of message boards!

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.

“We Live in Pathetic Temporal Urgency,” that's a good title

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

really liked eli keszler's stadium from last year, worked away at my subconscious

yeah Stadium is well worth your time.

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.

https://thequietus.com/articles/26905-oren-ambarchi-interview-favourite-albums

Really nice list of records. This was a great chat too: http://www.5049records.com/podcast/oren-ambarchi

always happy to see Dark To Themselves and Body Meta getting mentions.

16 minute video to palm sugar candy from the new album. there is something quite meditative and timeless about the music. somehow more than ambient not only because of the beats. a kind of soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPIbw1BLzC0

there are some (!) jim o'rourke records i've never listened to so i'm listening to them and, no big surprise i guess, oren ambarchi's 'rock' records sound like jim o'rourke's 'rock' records

Yes, Black Truffle finally has its own Bandcamp page.

Found out about Live Hubris through the boomkat year end list. How good is this? Can't imagine there was much of a roof left on Oto after part 3. Fucking amazing.

https://orenambarchi.bandcamp.com/album/live-hubris

A couple of mates made it onto the front cover of that. Lovely record.

nuts

TIL "Chahar" has a gorgeous video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBlgax01hQ

just getting around to Ghosted III and holy shit the guitar on the first track, haven’t been that wowed by a musical moment for a long time

A parochial observation maybe but in these records I hear Oren living in mid-late 1980s Sydney where the Necks were emerging and ECM records were $2 at Ashwoods in Pitt Street - but in that chiming guitar part I hear an echo of the psychedelic Sydney sound of those years… like The Church or Died Pretty

i like that observation! i should listen to more church.

i was just geeking out trying to arrange a best of ghosteds when i saw this thread revived. i think i'd go with the first half of I, "en," "fyra" and maybe "tre" from II, and probably all of III except for "do" and "seh".

III has such a three-dimensional sound. the mixing is so sharp. it's shockingly alive and weird if you magic-eye (magic-ear?) to it enough, to the details. but also a very easy listen, easy just to throw on, a vibe that's pretty much never unwelcome, at least in my home. itunes says i've listened to it 120 times lol.

shame that this is not released on CD

Agreed. I was really hoping all of these Ghosted album would get CD releases.

Ran into this during my quarterly rewatch of Live Hubris pt. 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TPFqH-lzHA

nice!

New release announced for May 15 on Portraits GRM

Great show in Sydney tonight

Sadly i couldn't go. Id heard it was solo and... No seating?