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Choose the right salt, and it'll eat through steel. Velocet Ocelot. At this point in his career, the word "drone" is still commonly affixed as a descriptor to his art, even though he's more than capable of turning any expectations foisted on him inside out.
On Sagittarian Domain there's a great spring in his step, a sense of playfulness, a feeling of open-ended journey. Krautrock comes to mind, just for the sheer driving repetition scooped into the heart of the track. But this isn't the taut playing of Neu! This is something altogether more baggy, set in a place where the slackness at its core acts as a conduit for all the ideas siphoned into it.
There's almost a jazzy tinge to the drumming, like Klaus Dinger suddenly freed from all the no-fuss discipline he brought to his work. The centerpiece "Knots" from Audience of One found Ambarchi matching abstract bursts of noise with giddy strings, a thread he partially picks up again here. Is it true that the ability to download anything, at any moment, constitutes freedom? And since our last Touch 30 compilation in , the accuracy of the music has grown and rises to the challenge of what sound can do to transform perceptions about the immediate emotion of musical work and its more difficult, longer term evolution.
Following Touch Folio in , this series is a dedication to finding new ways of audiovisual publishing, somewhere between the twin peaks of a jewel-cased CD and a lavish box-set. Based in Sydney, Australia, Oren Ambarchi is a gifted composer, multi-instrumentalist and improviser who has been traveling the world, crafting a most singular musical vision for the past twenty five years.
On a quick visit to New York for performances with Alvin Lucier and Loren Connors, Oren dropped by for a candid conversation about his early days as an Hasidic student in NYC, record collecting, learning to play guitar, running his own record label and a whole lot more.
Carving out an intimate and human sonic space across a diverse array of compositional approaches, sound sources, fidelities, and textures, Hotel Record is the latest dispatch from the continuing explorations of a unique duo.
For many, the geography defying partnership of crys cole and Oren Ambarchi is the likely source of envy and awe — a creatively rigorous adventure in sound, egged forward by the romance they share. Ambarchi needs little introduction. Cole, an artist focused on the constrained limits of sonic possibility, bridging gallery and musical contexts, has increasingly caught the attention of the international experimental music community over the last decade, running a parallel course in her dedication to collaborative and solo work.
Experimental musics tend to be consciously resistant to explicit narrative or location. When attempted, it is rarely done well, or retains the openness which make these territories so striking. They are the conceptual architectures of Hotel Record, and the root of its overwhelming success. A world of introspection and cohesive diversity, modeled by the experiences of two constant travelers, forced to see themselves, each other, and their relationship, evolving against a shifting landscape.
Built from improbable combinations of the electronic and acoustic — sonic demarcations of time, place, and emotion, Hotel Record transcends any reductive idea of music. A sonic rendering of the transmogrification of self, falling within the undefinable realm between sound-art and and the outer boundaries of how musicality is understood. A rippling, profoundly intimate construction of texture and tone, so beautiful, surprising, and filled with humanity, that it overwhelms the ear.
Out via Black Truffle, through Hotel Record , cole and Ambarchi show us what great art is all about — an opening of self, rigor of ideas, and adventure which never ends. An album which will send you excitedly flipping through its four sides for years to come. Not to be missed by any count. Joined by electronic rhythms from Ricardo Villalobos and the twin drums of Joe Talia and Will Guthrie, the layered guitars of the first piece are transformed into a raw and tumbling fusion-funk groove that calls to mind early Weather Report or even the first Golden Palominos LP.
Few artists could hope to include such an incredible variety of collaborators on one record and still hope for it to have a unique identity, but Ambarchi manages to do just that, crafting three pieces that emerge directly out of his previous work while also pushing ahead into new dimensions.
The author of the mix is Oren Ambarchi b. Ambarchi has been performing live since Thing is, the track reminds me of a very specific time in my life — in fact a very specific moment. So far, so nostalgic. But what I find curious is that at that particular point in time, I had not heard this piece of music. It took about a decade for me to discover that Frehley had recorded a composition that reached forward in time to that moment, distilled its essence with pinpoint accuracy, then lay in wait for me to stumble across it and find myself involuntarily transported back to that moment.
Suffice to say, this raises some interesting questions concerning the less-than-straightforward relationship between music and nostalgia. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic.
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