Live Dates Coming Up...
Sat May 18
Oren Ambarchi solo
@ Sonore Festival
Run Ar Puns
Route de Pleyben, 29150 Châteaulin
France
www.penn-ar-jazz.com/item/oren-ambarchi
Tue May 28
Premiere of Lucy Guerin's new dance work
@ Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon
Music by Oren Ambarchi
Place de la Comédie - 69001 Lyon
France
www.opera-lyon.com
Thu May 30
Oren Ambarchi/Will Guthrie duo
@ Blockhaus
Nantes
France
http://blockhausdy10.blogspot.fr
Mon June 3
Oren Ambarchi solo
+ crys cole solo
@ Café V Lese
Krymská 273/12
101 00 Praha
Czech Republic
http://cafevlese.cz
Tue June 4
Premiere of Benedict Andrews' "The Maids"
featuring Cate Blanchett & Isabelle Huppert
music by Oren Ambarchi
@ Sydney Theatre Company
Pier 4, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
Sydney
Australia
www.sydneytheatre.com.au
Thu June 6
Oren Ambarchi solo
@ Винзавод
4-й Сыромятнический переулок, дом 1, стр. 6
Москва, Moscow
Russian Federation
www.winzavod.ru
Fri June 7
Oren Ambarchi's Knots w/Joe Talia, James Rushford, crys cole & string quartet
@ Only Connect festival
Bla
Oslo
Norway
www.blaaoslo.no/
Wed June 12
Oren Ambarchi's Knots w/Joe Talia, James Rushford, crys cole, Ilan Volkov, Judith Hamann, Alison Blunt, Oliver Coates
+ Astor
@ Cafe Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
Dalston
London
UK
www.cafeoto.co.uk/
Sat June 22
Oren Ambarchi solo
+ Jeff Mills, Andy Stott, Shampoo Boy, Mark Fell, Thomas Koner, Vatican Shadow, Shackleton, Voices from the lake + more
@ Heart Of Noise festival
Innsbruck
Austria
Spring 2013 Live Dates
Tues April 30
Oren Ambarchi
@ The Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA
USA
www.therotunda.org
Thu May 2
Oren Ambarchi
+ KTL, Prurient, Body/Head, Jim Sauter, Alan Licht & more
@ Drone Activity In Progress
Knockdown Center
52-19 Flushing Ave
Queens,
New York
USA
www.knockdowncenter.com
Sun May 5
Oren Ambarchi
+ Marco Fusinato
@ Silent Barn
603 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn,
New York
USA
http://www.silentbarn.org
Wed May 8
Oren Ambarchi + Norbert Moslang
@ Palace
Zwinglistrasse 3
9004 St. Gallen
Switzerland
www.palace.sg
Sat May 11
Oren Ambarchi presents Knots (w/James Rushford, Joe Talia, Judith Hamann & others)
+ Stuart Braithwaite/Aidan Moffat/Hildur Guðnadóttir
@ Tectonics
The Old Fruitmarket
Glasgow
Scotland
www.glasgowconcerthalls.com
Sun May 12
Oren Ambarchi & Stephen O'Malley perform Alvin Lucier's "Criss-Cross" for two electric guitars and pure wave Oscillators (World Premiere)
+ Alvin Lucier Music for Cello and One or More Amplified Vases
Alvin Lucier Still Lives, for piano with slow sweep pure wave oscillators
Alvin Lucier Bird and Person Dyning for performer with microphones, loudspeakers and electronic birdcall
Alvin Lucier Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever), for piano, amplified teapot, and miniature sound
@ Tectonics
Grand Hall, City Halls Candleriggs,
Glasgow
Scotland
www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/1369
Black Truffle | 2 new releases
MERZBOW & OREN AMBARCHI - CAT'S SQUIRREL LP (BT08)
‘Cat’s Squirrel’ presents a live recording of Masami Akita and Oren Ambarchi’s performance in Campbelltown, Australia in May 2012. Although Akita and Ambarchi have known one another since 1993 and performed together as part of larger ensembles, this was their first performance as a duo. Together they create a massive wall of sound that moves from the cavernous to the blisteringly psychedelic, laying down shifting low-end structures over which pointillist details ricochet across the stereo field. Akita and Ambarchi’s voices blend together into a sonic morass, Ambarchi’s set-up expanded to include extra electronics and a spring reverb unit in addition to his signature guitar textures, and Akita utilizing both analogue and digital sound sources. Moving through a number of episodes, from deluges of reverberated metal screeches to rapid-fire iterations of visceral electronic tones, the record reaches a high point mid way through the second side, where Akita’s electronics gradually thin out into a stream of skipping chirps and screeches while around him Ambarchi builds up a dense mass of phasing low end guitar tones, the duo patiently developing an impenetrable wall of ecstatic, psychedelic noise. [Francis Plagne]
Deluxe, limited edition vinyl with artwork by Shunichiro Okada and design by Stephen O' Malley.
KEIJI HAINO/JIM O'ROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI - NOW WHILE IT IS STILL WARM LET US POUR IN ALL THE MYSTERY LP/CD (BT09)
Following on from last year’s acclaimed ‘Imikizushi’ (BT 07), ‘now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery’ is the fourth release from the established power trio of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi, recorded in January 2012 at their yearly concert at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo. While the trio’s two previous double LP releases featured sprawling, side-long performances, the music here is presented in six shorter pieces, each one displaying a different side of the trio’s interactions, from holy minimalism to cave-man rock.
The record begins with the trio joined by special guests Charlemagne Palestine and Eiko Ishibashi, conjuring ghostly tones from wine glasses as an accompaniment to Haino’s angelic vocals. This ten-minute piece, which moves from near silence and the sound of onstage footsteps to a stunning passage of clean guitar work from Haino, is steeped in the same mysterious atmospherics as Haino’s great folk-drone project, Nijumu. When Haino turns to the flute on the LP’s second track, a performance that clearly demonstrates the importance of the special concept of space and silence (ma) that Haino has developed from traditional Japanese aesthetics, O’Rourke and Ambarchi transform into the delicate and probing rhythm section of a classic 70s fusion side.
When the trio return to the crushing free-rock of their last two records, O’Rourke’s heavily effected bass rolling alongside Ambarchi’s tumbling rhythms as Haino’s guitar squeals and slashes above them, their performances display a new purposefulness and concision. Now truly operating as a band after a number of years of playing together, the pieces here feel like instant rocks songs, O’Rourke and Ambarchi instantly locking into solid riffs over which Haino alternates between jarring no-wave chords, intense soloing and his signature vocalisations. When the trio slow down and stretch out, the rhythm section plods like an abstracted Crazy Horse on the brink of collapse, and Haino elicits long, mournful solos reminiscent of the first classic Fushitshusha double live LP.
Perhaps more accessible than the trio’s previous recordings because of its range and concision, ‘now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery’ exudes the dark, alien quality of Haino’s greatest recordings and testifies to the strength of the musical bond that has developed between these three players. [Francis Plagne]
Released as a 6 panel digipak CD and as limited edition LP in a lavish gatefold with a printed inner sleeve.
Design by Stephen O'Malley with high quality live shots by Ujin Matsuo and stunning artwork by Shunichiro Okada.
April 2013 Live Dates
Wed April 3
Oren Ambarchi & Lasse Marhaug duo
+ Crys Cole solo
@ Brugata
Oslo
Norway
Thu April 4
Oren Ambarchi solo
+ Kim Myhr solo
+ Ambarchi/Myhr duo
@ Bla
Oslo
Norway
www.blaaoslo.no
Tue April 9
Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi duo
+ Top Spin, Compost
@ Escape B
Paris
France
www.facebook.com/pages/Espace-B/125227321455
Sat April 13
Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley)
+ Russell Haswell
@ Cafe Oto
London
UK
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk
Sun April 14
Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley)
+ Crys Cole
@ Cafe Oto
London
UK
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk
Tue April 16
Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley)
+ Syndrome
@ 4AD
Diksmuide
Belgium
www.4ad.be
Wed April 17
Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley)
+ Dead C, Vomir
@ Sonic Protest Festival
La Dynamo
Paris
France
www.sonicprotest.com
Thu April 18
Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley)
+ High On Fire & more
@ Roadburn Festival
Tilburg
Holland
www.roadburn.com
Mon April 29
Oren Ambarchi solo
+ Mary Halvorson/Peter Evans/Weasel Walter
@ La Sala Rossa
Montreal
Canada
www.casadelpopolo.com/contents/node/20
Spring (ha!) 2013 | Live
Sat Feb 16
Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia
+ My Bloody Valentine, Swans, Dead C etc
ATP/I'll be your Mirror
Altona
Australia
www.atpfestival.com/events/australia2013.php
Sun Feb 17
Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia
@ Mojos
North Fremantle
Western Australia
www.tura.com.au/tura-program/club-zho/zho-2013/zho-104-oren-ambarchi-and-joe-talia/
Mon Feb 25
Oren Ambarchi/Martin Ng/Ensemble Offspring
Ligeti Morphed
@ Melbourne Recital Centre
Australia
www.melbournerecital.com.au/whatson/buytix?perfid=5130
Sun Mar 3
Chris Abrahams/Oren Ambarchi/Robbie Avenaim trio
@ The Old Darlington School
Maze Crescent, Darlington
Sydney
Australia
Thu Mar 7
Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke Duo
+ John Duncan
CCA Live
@ Playhouse
Kitakyushu Performing Arts Centre
Japan
www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/index.html
Sun Mar 10
Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia duo
+ Crys Cole/Tim Olive/James Rushford trio
+ Yuko Kono
@ Guggenheim House
3-5-17 Shioyacho, Tarumi-ku
Kobe
Japan
www.nedogu.com/blog/archives/6828
Mon Mar 11
Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia duo
+ Crys Cole/Tim Olive/James Rushford trio
+ Yuko Kono
+ Katsuro Mori
@ Socrates
Kyoto
Japan
http://sound-powder.com/live1303mar.html
Wed Mar 13
Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke duo
+ Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia duo
@ Superdeluxe
Roppongi
Tokyo
Japan
www.super-deluxe.com/room/3362/
Sun Mar 17
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi trio
+ Crys Cole, Joe Talia, James Rushford trio
@ Superdeluxe
Roppongi
Tokyo
Japan
www.super-deluxe.com/room/3345/
Oren Ambarchi at ATP | February 2013
ATP announce second group of additions to their special Australian event...
I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR MELBOURNE
curated by ATP & The Drones
February 16th & 17th 2013 at
Westgate Entertainment Centre and Grand Star Reception, Altona, Melbourne, Victoria
Pere Ubu performing 'The Modern Dance',
Crime And The City Solution (1st Aus show in over 20 years!),
Kev Carmody, Oren Ambarchi...
Iceland gig
Sat Dec 22
Oren Ambarchi solo
+
Shahzad Ismaily/Oren Ambarchi/Arnljotur Sigurdsson/Úlfur Hansson
@ NORDIC HOUSE
REYKJAVÍK,
ICELAND
Winter 2102 Live Events
Sun Nov 25
Oren Ambarchi & Robbie Avenaim
+ Keith Fullerton Whitman
+ Dean Roberts
+ Marco Fusinato
@ The Workers Club
Cnr Brunswick and Gertrude St
Fitzroy
Melbourne
Australia
http://theworkersclub.com.au/
Thu Nov 29
Oren Ambarchi solo
@ Culturgest
Avenida dos Aliados, 104
4000 Porto
Portugal
www.culturgest.pt/info/porto.html
Sun Dec 2
Oren Ambarchi solo
@ MADEIRADIG Festival
Casa das Mudas Art Centre
Centro das Artes | Vale dos Amores | 9370-111 Calheta
Portugal
http://www.madeiradig.com
Interview with Oren Ambarchi by Guillermo Escudero
Here you can read an Interview with Oren Ambarchi by Guillermo Escudero for LOOP (Chile) - so its in Spanish...
OREN AMBARCHI - RAGA OOTY/THE NILGIRI PLATEAU LP
Raga Ooty unearths three previously-unreleased works (each titled with reference to the area in south India where his mother was born) from Australian sound artist Oren Ambarchi's archive, showcasing the rawer side of his solo work between 2006 and 2011. The side-long "Raga Ooty" unspools a twisting, skittering thread of gritty guitar harmonics over a bed of buzzing tambura drone, creating the same paradoxical impression of simultaneous stasis and forward propulsion achieved by minimalist masters such as Henry Flynt, to whom this work is dedicated. "The Nilgiri Plateau" generates an eight-minute wash of gleaming overtones from a 12 string acoustic guitar played with motors, continuing the experiments first made public on the 2007 Stacte Motors LP. The closing "Raga Ooty (Slight Return)" returns to the distorted guitar harmonic hysterics of the opening piece, this time elaborated over a wash of Ambarchi's signature Leslie cabinet tones, building relentlessly over the course of 12 minutes, recorded live in Basel in late 2011.