Interview with Oren Ambarchi in Cyclic Defrost
An interview with Oren Ambarchi in Cyclic Defrost can be read here
UK Live date for Oren Ambarchi | SuperSonic Festival, Birmingham
Taking place 11th-13th July at the Custard Factory, Birmingham, this year sees an amazing line-up including BATTLES, HARVEY MILK, EFTERKLANG, HARMONIA, NOXAGT, EARTH, WOODEN SHJIPS, THRONES, OXBOW, JUSTICE YELDMAN, DALEK, ORTHODOX, BLACK SUN, THE OWL SERVICE, MAX TUNDRA, MAGNETAPHONE, PCM, EINSTELLUNG, ASVA and GUAPO plus GRAVETEMPLE feat. the living legend that is JULIAN COPE with STEPHEN O'MALLEY of SUNN 0))) fame, OREN AMBARCHI and ATTILA from MAYHEM!
More artists will be confirmed in the next few weeks, with tickets going on sale at the beginning of April.
New Projects & Current Activities | September 2007
New album out now:
In The Pendulum's Embrace
Oren Ambarchi
[Touch # TO:78, 2007]
CD - 3 tracks
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 instrumentsand 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...
You can hear an extract from the album here and an info sheet (pdf) can be downloaded here