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Oren Ambarchi: Live Knots
by John Eyles
"Knots" was originally a thirty-three minute track that was the centrepiece of Oren Ambarchi's album Audience of One (Touch, 2012). On the elaborate production, Ambarchi's own guitars, autoharp and percussion were joined by strings and French horn arranged by Eyvind Kang, plus drummer Joe Talia and vocalist Stephen Fandrich. Being full of drama and variety, the piece was an obvious choice for Ambarchi to take on the road, which he duly did in 2013. Now come the recordings that resulted ...
read moreOren Ambarchi and Eli Keszler: Alps
by John Eyles
A release on the Dancing Wayang label is always cause for celebration for several reasons. Firstly, they are few and far between, with Alps being only the label's ninth release since it began issuing records in 2007; rarely do two appear in a year, and never more than two--which makes 2014 a special year as Alps follows the release of Motion by N.E.W. earlier in the year. Secondly, the reason for their scarcity is that each Dancing Wayang release is ...
read moreOren Ambarchi: Audience of One
by AAJ Italy Staff
Chitarrista e esploratore sonoro con un meritato seguito di appassionati, l'australiano Oren Ambarchi aggiunge un nuovo, importante, tassello alla propria discografia con Audience of One, lavoro concepito come una suite in quattro parti e costruito con una equilibrata architettura narrativa che va a toccare differenti elementi lessicali cari all'artista. L'iniziale, ipnotica, “Salt" è come appesa al filo sognante della voce di Paul Duncan [Warm Ghost] ed è una sorta di stanza d'iniziazione per la massiccia cavalcata di “Knots," oltre mezz'ora ...
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