You know those annoying TMT news stories in which the writer takes that obnoxious, hyperbolic tack of contrasting the fact that such-and-such artist is doing so many amazing projects right now with the other fact that you, the reader, are a loser and aren’t really amounting to much of anything by comparison??? Well, basically, they’re all Oren Ambarchi’s fault.
Like, seriously, this dude is everywhere at once. We literally just reported about his recent collab with Keiji Haino and Stephen O’Malley for an Editions Mego imprint yesterday. And now we find out that he’s releasing a CD/2xLP record with Mats Gustafsson, Johan Berthling, and Andreas Werliin of Fire! on the Rune Grammofon label? And I’m supposed to notget into the fact that the rest of us are fucking wastes of space by comparison? Come on. Listen to this shit: there are two separate double vinyl editions, one on regular black and one very limited white edition (only available from the label site) that they’re only pressing 100 copies of! Also, both double vinyl editions have a 23-minute track not on the CD, and the CD edition has an eight-minute track not on the LPs. This is all just too rad to not get angry about.
And listen to this shit from the label’s website: “As with Jim O’Rourke on the previous album this is not a mere guest appearance. Ambarchi is fully intergrated as a member making this a glorious monster of a record. With their heavy, hypnotic, psychedelic rock’n’jazz explorations they have carved out a monumental and different sound than any of the projects they are normally associated with.” Monumental? Different?? See, all I’ve really done today is slurp coffee, shuffle papers around to different areas of my desk, and sneak into Mr P’s office to eat his slice of antique cake from Louis XIV’s wedding! Oh, wait, and that last one didn’t even really happen to me! It’s just a fucking Seinfeld episode that I’m remembering as my own life. Well, this is just ducky.
• Oren Ambarchi: http://www.orenambarchi.com
• Fire!: http://matsgus.com/archives/category/groups/fire
• Rune Grammofon: http://www.runegrammofon.com