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$15.12

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
august 9th, 2006

grob (germany) #grob 648 cd

keith rowe / oren ambarchi / robbie avenaim “honey pie” compact disc

honey pie (39:46)

grob press release...

keith rowe/oren ambarchi/robbie avenaim - honey pie

keith rowe: tabletop guitar, electronics
oren mabarchi: guitar, electronics
robbie avenaim: percussion, electronics

honey pie, recorded live in france in may 2001, is the second part of our three-part series with recordings documenting the cooperation of keith rowe and oren ambarchi. part 1 was the cd thumb (grob 432, recently re-released, rowe/ambarchi/avenaim in a quintet with oren ambarchi/sachiko m and otomo yoshihide); part 3, which will be released in nine months, will document the first real-time duo gig of ambarchi and rowe.

if thumb was about something like ”absence in presence,” about, well, the artsy trick of improvising like a quintet and sounding simply like a duo, then honey pie is a dynamic, powerful 40-minute recording. the static intimated at the beginning and lasting for four or five minutes is cautiously preserved by the musicians – rowe and ambarchi on guitars, avenaim on percussion, all three on live electronics – and this static is transformed in a constantly changing process. on thumb, the tension was produced using static (via an endless extension of a ”something”) and therefore ”disappointed,” we hear on honey pie tension sans phrase. at first there is no drone, no great sound, upon which the musicians can comfortably retire (the great sound, which then originates in the process of the improvisation is rich and complex in itself). they improvise without flourish, develop small structures of a nearly motive-like character. thanks to this, the stringency, too, of rowe’s flatness is questioned, albeit softly. honey pie thus leaves the impression of a near playful, loose session. listen to it loudly!

$15.12

back in stock as of
january 25th, 2008

first in stock on
january 6th, 2003

threads:
electro-acoustic-improvisation
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones

grob (germany) #grob 432 cd

keith rowe / oren ambarchi / sachiko m / otomo yoshihide / robbie avenaim “thumb” compact disc

thumb (30:35)

i had a chat with oren a few months back about this blinding gig he'd played at the forum... err... instants chavires with the aforementioned lot and that, most unfortunately, it wasn't recorded as it was one of the most stimulating gigs of his young career. well... turns out it was recorded and here it is c/o felix klopotek's improv powerhouse grob. very good for us... 1 track, 30 minutes, 35 seconds. questionable fidelity, especially given the nature of the music, but that's never stopped anyone in the past... a slice of real life. in a vacuum.

grob press release...

oren ambarchi/robbie avenaim/keith rowe + otomo yoshihide + sachiko m - thumb (10.2002)

the moment before a rock band steps on stage: the amplifiers have been hooked up and are humming, the glaring flood lights are buzzing, a roadie is fiddling round with a drum set, pushes it a few centimeters until it is at the perfect place. above all the atmosphere is electrified.

this is the atmosphere the music on thumb conveys. of course a rock band will never step on stage, of course, the musicians make music the entire time (even when you don't believe it, because you don't think you can hear it! here stand, or rather sit, five musicians on stage).

this cd is the result of a recording or stage situation, happening so suddenly, that happened on may 29, 2001 in the legendary paris club, instants chavires. the trio ambarchi/avenaim/rowe (two prepared guitars, a little electronics and percussion) were on tour at the time in france (their first tour) and met the duo otomo/sachiko (guitar, turntables and sine wave generator), who are well-established and have proven themselves through uncountable recordings.

[do we have to introduce the musicians? hardly. ambarchi, rowe, yoshihide and m have strongly influenced the new improvised music of the 90's on numerous records and leave no doubt that they are playing the music of the moment in the new decade. avenaim, the percussionist, or roadie who pushes the drum set around, is a bit less well-known. he is the closest musical friend of ambarchi, both went to the same school and together worked through free jazz 15 years ago. up to today the have been playing together. his musical contribution is not a decibel less important than his friend's.]

the result of this meeting is not a hectic-unconcentrated jam session, not a labored search and then a timid find. what we hear is maximal concentration. and consolidation-not, however, in view of noise and energy. they condense their music activity into two or three lines: tender, but played all the more resolute and direct. the five play in this moment exactly as secure as if they had played together for years. thumb features the entire performance of this quintet. although it lasted only a little longer than a half-an-hour, the overview is quickly lost. have they already finished (have they even begun?)? how long have they been playing? ten minutes? twenty? an hour? at the end, their sound actually leaves not question unanswered.

thumb is the beginning of a series of cds that will focus on the cooperation of oran ambarchi and keith rowe. in spring 2003, a cd will appear from ambarchi, rowe, and avenaim, then in summer 2003 with rowe and ambarchi as duo, recorded in real time.

oren ambarchi
robbie avenaim
keith rowe
otomo yoshihide
sachiko m

$10.01

back in stock as of
may 23rd, 2007

first in stock on
may 27th, 2006

threads:
concert-recordings
out-guitar
australia

room40 (australia) #edrm404 cd

oren ambarchi / robbie avenaim “clockwork” three inch fan compact disc

clockwork (18:28)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "clockwork"

entirely emergizing live duo set (recorded on april 21st, 1999) of contemporary electronic guitar-gamelan and “kontakte”-lineage percussion from oren ambarchi and robbie avenaim; some of you may remember buying this in its original cdr form right around the time that mms was still in its embryonic stage(s); kudos to lawrence for making this recording available once again for the growing public...

room40 press release...

"raised on a diet of several decades' worth of renegade creatives and neglected masterpieces, we're all wise to the disappearing-act that an artist's back catalogue can perform - doubly so if their financial and/or artistic imperatives lead them to micro-release and micro-format their prodigious output. whether this is the ultimate in commodity fetishism or an over-aestheticisation of the potlatch syndrome, this process lends the private press/limited-up-the-wazoo document the kind of once-debased aura or mystique reserved for the gallery edition. uncover the mystery, they say, and you uncover the glory. and then - with the over-prescribed nature of undiscovered- gem glorification rendering the actual music somewhat underwhelming - it disappears into the air, helium balloons dropping back down from the heavens...

this is, however, no great concern vis-à-vis oren ambarchi and robbie avenaim's sucker-punch to the solar plexus, clockwork. its initial release - an edition of 100 3" cd-rs on ambarchi's jerker productions label back in 1999 - let it slide by just enough aesthetic radars to register among cognoscenti. coupled with ambarchi's solo work from the era, the recording marked a shift from the gonzo-rock of the duo's previous band, phlegm. things happen throughout clockwork that had never really happened before. recorded in front of a live audience for that "what we did on our holidays" feel, avenaim and ambarchi unravel their detourned instrumental panoply into a series of parallel universe propositions - (ie. if ambarchi's concurrent vinyl-only stacte series was alvin lucier and cluster collaborating for mego, then clockwork is mickey hart's gamelan orchestra performing ionisation.)

the scarcity of both clockwork and stacte within the sphere of known sound lent a subtle distortion to received wisdom of both ambarchi's and avenaim's development. the jump from their 1999 duo disc on tzadik, the alter rebbe's nigun, to their recent collaborative recordings with keith rowe, sachiko m, and otomo yoshihide, is indeed a wide and almost inexplicable chasm. those in contact with ambarchi's solo recordings for the touch label, or with avenaim's live performances in australia, would be partially clued in to the shifts in approach that occurred in the intervening period. this reissue of clockwork - its reinstatement in the "marketplace" for immediate edification and dissemination - is not just timely; it is also one of 2005's headiest pleasures. and that one of the most important pieces of the ambarchi/avenaim puzzle will finally achieve its deserved position within a trajectory of non-idiomatic improvisation (i'll say transitional, lest lawrence english side-swipe me,) well, one doesn't need to sound that final gong to induce the respectful applause of the concert patron.

this is, you might say, a photograph of the clockwork of time between..." - jon dale

$12.81

back in stock as of
april 23rd, 2008

first in stock on
november 18th, 2003

threads:
electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation
guitar-themed
musique-concrète
digital-musics

23five incorporated (usa) #23five 902 cd
san francisco museum of modern art (united states) #sfm 902 cd

“variable resistance • ten hours of sound from australia” compact disc

oren ambarchi - stactedit (2000)
robbie avenaim - impulse control disorder (2002)
philip samartzis - soft and loud (2001)
david brown - were holes mended? (2002)
jim knox (xonk) - never mind the ruddocks (2002)
jim knox (xonk) - fuck to mandatory detention (2002)
jim knox (xonk) - prophylactic liquidation of our pig government (2002)
thembi soddell - violation (2002)
darrin verhagen - p2 (2002)
pimmon - steps gaps (flicker) (2002)
délire - fxcr_2_r2 (2002)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "were holes mended?"

this disc, along with “motion - a movement in australian sound”, will provide an air-tight compendium on contemporary out-sound workings in the outback. nice to see my man jim knox on a tangible artifact...

23five incorporated press release...

variable resistance: 10 hours of sound from australia
23f/sfm 902, compact disc

over the past three or four years, the australian experimental musical community has flourished, thanks in part to the tireless globetrotting from artists like oren ambarchi, pimmon, and philip samartzis. variable resistance — a co-presentation between 23five incorporated and the san francisco museum of modern art — originally celebrated this australian renaissance with a 10 hour ‘listening event’ in september of 2002. from those ten hours, curator philip samartzis distilled the best tracks to be featured on this cd compendium. variable resistance is a title that encapsulates the tone and extent of the work on hand, referencing not only the electronic gizmo (the variable resistor) as key to many of the featured homespun constructions filtered through state of the art dsp filters, but also as an applicable non-definition of those artists who “offer variable resistance in how they are defined and the positions they occupy in a broader cultural context, fragmented, and dispersed among remote cities and divided by enormous physical and psychological space.”

within this disc, the australian aesthetic finds itself reflecting a number of ideas previously mined throughout the history of electronic music from mego’s fascination with the streaming micro-textures of digital fragmentation to metamkine’s conceptual riddles within their cinema pour l’oreille series to the brazen noise-junk collages from merzbow and otomo yoshihide. yet, variable resistance resolves its uniqueness by smashing these references with brutish noise and demonstrative force applied to the stereotypically delicate sensibilities of electro-acoustic composition. for instance, samartzis’ collages of environmental, plundered, and digitized sound meld into psychologically abrasive narrative scalded by toxic agents; pimmon transforms agitated chunks of granular synthesis into cybersonic lullabies; and david brown’s jarringly angular duet between a prepared guitar and a squeaking door stands as a steroid injected homage to pierre henry’s musique concrete classic variations pour une porte et un soupir. along with samartzis, brown, and pimmon, variable resistance also features exclusive compositions from oren ambarchi, robbie avenaim, philip samartzis, xonk, thembi soddell, darrin verhagen, and delire.

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