http://www.orenambarchi.com/ Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. Born in Sydney in 1969, he has been performing live since 1986. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, “re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation”. (The Wire, UK). en Copyright 2008 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:10:55 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat Oct 25 Oren Ambarchi solo + Angel + Alexandre St-Onge @ Send & Receive Festival Urban Shaman 203 - 290 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg Canada Tue Oct 28 Oren Ambarchi solo + Martin Tétreault/Michel Langevin + Edgar Olivier Charles/Alexandre St-Onge/Dirk Dresselhaus + Martin Dumais (AUN) + Martin Tétreault/Érick Dorion/Ilpo Vaisanen @ Sala Rossa Montreal Canada Wed Oct 29 Oren Ambarchi/Michel Langevin (aka 'Away' of Voivod)/Martin Dumais (AUN) trio + Angel + Érick Dorion + Alexandre St-Onge + Edgar Olivier Charles @ Sala Rossa Montreal Canada Thu Oct 30 Oren Ambarchi solo + Polar Goldie Cats + Joe&Joe + ricky ricky (formerly known as missincinatti) @ The Relax Bar 5511 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA USA http://www.orenambarchi.com/live_dates_october_2008.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/live_dates_october_2008.html left Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:10:55 +0000 YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE RED BRICK WAREHOUSE NO.1 1-1 Shinko, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 231-0001 Japan ]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/yokohama_triennale_show.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/yokohama_triennale_show.html left Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:03:30 +0000 Heathen Harvest]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/interview_with_oren_ambarchi_in_heathen_harvest.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/interview_with_oren_ambarchi_in_heathen_harvest.html left Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:32:26 +0000 CONCERT OREN AMBARCHI + HELM The Luminaire Monday 14 July [8pm] 311 High Rd., NW6 T:020.7372.8668 Tube: Kilburn £7 (advance) £8 (door) Sydney resident Oren Ambarchi treats his guitar work with an otherworldly alchemy. Straddling music worlds of tonal micro-glitch, black metal drone and outright pop, his captivating minimalism is a sun-drenched treat. Ambarchi's tonal guitar work is filtered through various effects pedals to recreate Mego-like (but more listener-friendly) improvised explorations, akin to many of the best laptop artists (and his collaborators) Christian Fennesz, Tim Hecker and Pimmon. His joint work includes live sets and recordings with Martin Ng, Sunn 0)))'s Stephen O'Malley, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Gunter Muller, Evan Parker, Toshimaru Nakamura, Dave Grohl, and Damo Suzuki. Ambarchi is also a band member of the unfocussed post-pop group Sun, as well as Burial Chamber Trio, and Gravetemple. Labels releasing his material are Touch, Southern Lord, room40 and Staubgold; notable solo albums include Suspension, Triste, and Grapes From The Estate. How's that for a CV? NB: support comes from Helm, whose main-man Luke Younger provides sonic billows and industrial-esque surges. http://www.orenambarchi.com/oren_ambarchi_live_in_london.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/oren_ambarchi_live_in_london.html left Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:57:51 +0000 TouchShop cut by Jason @ Transition artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft Electric guitars, organ, samples, bells, percussion and motorised cymbal recorded at BJB Studios, Sydney with additional overdubs made at home 2005-2007. Gratitude to Fairport Convention and Boris D Hegenbart. Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK). This is the next in a new series of 7" vinyl-only releases, 'Touch Sevens'. You can read more about this series here 7" vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. Today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a "healthy" popular culture. It might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of "the rear view mirror"... the generation of Touch artists who grew up with vinyl [and cassette] still feeling a strong emotional attachment to it. This series is more than that... an overtly critical, non-digital statement is supported by treatments of audio work which cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the A & the B and the additional dimension of the visual counterpoint. As for the aspect of audience participation, we choose not to specify the RPM on the label, encouraging the listener to experiment with playback options and personal preferences. An attempt to make music that works at both speeds. The front cover might actually be the back cover...]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/ts05_oren_ambarchi_destinationless_desire.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/ts05_oren_ambarchi_destinationless_desire.html left Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:20:27 +0000 here]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/interview_with_oren_ambarchi_in_cycling_defrost.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/interview_with_oren_ambarchi_in_cycling_defrost.html left Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:21:59 +0000 THE TOFF 252 Swanston St, Melbourne, Australia

Sun June 29 - Oren Ambarchi solo KLUUBB 14/F, 367 Hennessy Road, Foo Tak Building, Wanchai, Hong Kong http://www.whitenoiserecords.org/

Wed July 2 - Oren Ambarchi solo UGANDA 4 Aristobolus St , Jerusalem, Israel

Sat July 5 - Oren Ambarchi solo LEVONTIN 7 Tel Aviv, Israel

Sun July 6 - Oren Ambarchi solo + Stephen O' Malley solo + Machinefabriek BIMHUIS Piet Heinkade 3, 1019 BR Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mon July 7 - Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O' Malley, Matt "Skitz" Sanders) + Asva WORM Achterhaven 148 , 3024 RC Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tue July 8 - Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O' Malley, Matt "Skitz" Sanders) KULTURBUNKER MULHEIM Berliner Str. 20, 51063 Köln, Germany

Wed July 9 - Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O' Malley, Matt "Skitz" Sanders) POINT EPHEMERE 200 quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris, France

Thu July 10 - Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O' Malley, Matt "Skitz" Sanders) + Asva ULU Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY, UK

Sat July 12 - Oren Ambarchi solo SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK

Sun July 13 - Gravetemple (Attila Csihar, Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O' Malley, Matt "Skitz" Sanders, Julian Cope) SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL

Mon 14th July Solo show + Helm THE LUMINAIRE 311 High Road, London NW6 7JR, UK ]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/uk_live_date_for_oren_ambarchi_supersonic_festival_birmingham.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/uk_live_date_for_oren_ambarchi_supersonic_festival_birmingham.html left Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:21:11 +0000 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]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/new_projects_current_activities_september_2007.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/new_projects_current_activities_september_2007.html left Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:27:55 +0000 Touch Music [MCPS]. His work is also released on Touch, one of the most influential independent labels based in the UK [founded 1981/2]. ]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/touch_touchradio_publishing_licensing.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/touch_touchradio_publishing_licensing.html right Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:11:42 +0000 TouchShop. Reviews of all of Oren Ambarchi's releases can be read here]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/discography.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/discography.html right Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:36:54 +0000 Oren Ambarchi is a composer and multi-instrumentalist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK). http://www.orenambarchi.com/biography_photos.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/biography_photos.html right Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:11:15 +0000 here ]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/reviews_features.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/reviews_features.html right Sat, 19 May 2007 11:37:07 +0000 For a selection of live peerformances by Oren Ambarchi, read on... http://www.orenambarchi.com/performances.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/performances.html right Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:57:47 +0000 http://www.orenambarchi.com/collaborations.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/collaborations.html right Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:05:22 +0000 "Simon" and "Strategem", from his 1st solo album, Insulation [Touch # T33.16, 1999] are free for download. The album is now deleted and more tracks will be added here in future.]]> http://www.orenambarchi.com/downloads.html http://www.orenambarchi.com/downloads.html right Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:07:18 +0000