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| | touch (uk) #ts 05 ep touch sevens (uk) #ts 05 eporen ambarchi “destinationless desire” seven inch single record - highway of diamonds
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| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "highway of diamonds" |
| | may 2008 release ; fourth entry in the “touch singles series” - two new pieces (which, btw, play @ 33pm - took me a little while to figure that out !!!) from oren ambarchi ... |
| | ts05 - oren ambarchi - destinationless desire released: 2008 7" vinyl only 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).
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... |
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