Oh, Oren Ambarchi. You’ve had a really stellar year. How stellar? Let me count the ways:
In the beginning, there was your solo tour, including a performance of the masterful “Knots” at ISSUE Project Room.
There was the Nazoranai tour. You hit the road with Keiji Haino and Stephen O’Malley and made everyone’s ears blister with your pounding drums and large gong (…).
Then came the release of Shade Themes from Kairos, where you replaced O’Malley with Randall Dunn (but kept Keiji Haino along for the ride, because, you know, he’s Keiji Haino).
Around the same time, your collaboration with Richard Pinhas was released, showing off your multi-instrumentalist talents by switching off between drums and guitar, followed by a demonstration of your talents covering ZZ Top.
And then (and then!) you announced another album with Jim O’Rourke and Haino, fresh off of 2013’s collaboration Now While It’s Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery. A TWO-PART album, Oren, a full-length recording of one of your live performances. You remember that set, don’t you, Oren? It was in Japan, in the late winter/early spring, and it was lovely.
Are you not exhausted, Oren? Does it not get tiring to work on so many cool projects all the time? Wouldn’t you like a break?
What’s that, you say? You have a new release in the works, a 47-minute-long continuous piece that finds you collaborating with Jim O’Rourke, Thomas Brinkmann, Cyrs Cole, and more? You traveled across the world, to Iceland, to London, to Tokyo, to L.A. to record it? It’s called Quixotism, and it will be released on Editions Mego in just a few short months, on the fateful day of September 29?
Alright, then. Carry on.
• Oren Ambarchi: http://www.orenambarchi.com
• Editions Mego: http://editionsmego.com
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