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Oren Ambarchi
Oren Ambarchi, Japan, 2007
Background information
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Sydney, Australia
GenresAvant-garde, free improvisation, electronic, metal, ambient, noise
Instrument(s)Guitar, drums
Years active1986–current
Websiteorenambarchi.com

Oren Ambarchi (born 1969) is an Australian musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays mainly electric guitar and percussion.[1]

Biography

Oren Ambarchi was born in Sydney to an Iraqi Jewish family.[1] Ambarchi has been performing live since 1986. In the late 1980s he played free jazz in Sydney, originally as a drummer.[2] In an interview with ABC Radio broadcaster, Jon Rose, Ambarchi described how he started playing guitar,

There happened to be one laying around in our rehearsal room. I picked it up and starting hitting it with drumsticks and using it in whatever way I wanted to use it in, and one thing led to another. I'm glad I wasn't trained. I've always loved rock music, I grew up listening to pop and rock, so that was in my mind, but I've also been interested in electronics. I never wanted to learn to play it properly, it was an object as much as an instrument.[2]

He was a member of noise band Phlegm with Robbie Avenaim, with whom he co-organised the What Is Music Festival. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, though he also plays drums and percussion in some of his live performances.[3]

Ambarchi contributed to Drone Doom band Sunn O)))'s Black One album in 2005, and has since become a frequent live performer with the band, as well as contributing to the Oracle EP and Monoliths & Dimensions album.[4] He also released a vinyl EP with Attila Csihar and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson under the name Burial Chamber Trio; and has performed with Attila Csihar and Stephen O'Malley, the other half of Sunn O))), under the name Gravetemple. Ambarchi also works in popular music contexts and is a drummer for the group Sun with composer/musician Chris Townend.

In May 2010, he performed live with Boris at the Vivid Live Noise Night curated by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Ambarchi collaborated with multi-instrumentalist Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost on experimental music projects.[5]

Partial discography

  • (1998) Stacte (Jerker Productions)
  • (1999) Stacte.2 (Jerker Productions)
  • (1999) Clockwork with Robbie Avenaim (Jerker Productions, Room40 reissue 2005)
  • (1999) The Alter Rebbe's Nigun with Robbie Avenaim (Tzadik)
  • (1999) Insulation (Touch)
  • (2000) Persona (ERS)
  • (2000) Afternoon Tea with Christian Fennesz, Paul Gough, Peter Rehberg, Keith Rowe (Ritornell)
  • (2000) Reconnaissance with Martin Ng (Staubgold)
  • (2000) Stacte.3 (Plate Lunch)
  • (2001) Suspension (Touch)
  • (2002) Honey Pie with Robbie Avenaim and Keith Rowe (Grob)
  • (2002) Thumb with Robbie Avenaim, Keith Rowe, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M (Grob)
  • (2002) Flypaper with Keith Rowe (Staubgold)
  • (2002) Mort aux Vaches (Staalplaat)
  • (2002) Stacte.4 (En/Of)
  • (2003) Sun (Preservation Records) with Chris Townend
  • (2003) Triste (Idea Records, Southern Lord)
  • (2003) Vigil with Martin Ng (Quecksilber)
  • (2003) My days are darker than your nights with Johan Berthling (Häpna)
  • (2003) Oystered with Günter Müller and Voice Crack (Audiosphere)
  • (2004) Grapes from the Estate (Touch, Southern Lord)
  • (2004) Strange Love with Günter Müller and Philip Samartzis (For4Ears)
  • (2005) Cloud with Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura and Christian Fennesz (Erstwhile)
  • (2005) Black One with Sunn O))) (Southern Lord)
  • (2006) Squire with Keith Rowe (For4Ears)
  • (2006) Stacte Motors (Western Vinyl)
  • (2006) Willow Weep and Moan for Me with Tetuzi Akiyama and Alan Licht (Antiopic)
  • (2007) In the Pendulum's Embrace (Touch)
  • (2007) Lost Like a Star (Bo'Weavil)
  • (2007) Gravetemple with Stephen O'Malley and Attila Csihar (Southern Lord)
  • (2007) Burial Chamber Trio with Greg Anderson and Attila Csihar (Southern Lord)
  • (2008) Spirit Transform Me with Z'EV (Tzadik)
  • (2008) A Final Kiss on Poisoned Cheeks (Table of the Elements)
  • (2008) הופעה באוגנדה (Uganda)
  • (2009) Monoliths & Dimensions with Sunn O))) (Southern Lord)
  • (2010) Tima Formosa with Jim O'Rourke and Keiji Haino (Black Truffle)[6]
  • (2011) Hit & Run with Joe Talia (Touch)
  • (2011) Indeed with Jim O'Rourke (Editions Mego)
  • (2011) In a Flash Everything Comes Together as One There Is No Need for a Subject with Keiji Haino and Jim O'Rourke (Black Truffle/Medama)
  • (2011) Dream Request with Robbie Avenaim (Bo'Weavil)
  • (2012) The Mortimer Trap with Thomas Brinkmann (Black Truffle)
  • (2012) Audience of One (Touch)
  • (2012) Connected Robin Fox (Kranky)
  • (2012) In the Mouth – a Hand with Fire! (Rune Grammofon)
  • (2012) Black Plume with Keith Rowe and Crys Cole (Bocian)
  • (2012) Raga Ooty / The Nilgiri Plateau (Bo'Weavil)
  • (2012) Sagittarian Domain (Editions Mego)
  • (2012) Wreckage with James Rushford (Prisma)
  • (2012) なぞらない (Nazoranai) with Keiji Haino and Stephen O'Malley (Editions Mego)
  • (2013) Cat's Squirrel with Merzbow (Black Truffle / Hospital Hill)

References

  1. ^ a b "Oren Ambarchi biography". Touch Music. 2002. Retrieved 29 May 2011. {{cite web}}: Check |archiveurl= value (help)
  2. ^ a b Rose, Jon (2003). "Re-wired Guitar – OREN AMBARCHI". Australia Adlib. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 29 May 2011. Cite error: The named reference "adlib" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ caleb~k (2001). "OREN AMBARCHI INTERVIEW". Angbase. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  4. ^ Stannard, Joseph (8 April 2009). "Sunn O))) Exclusive Interview Transcripts: Oren Ambarchi". The Wire (Issue 302). Wire Magazine. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
  5. ^ "Warm Ghost". Partisan Records. 8 May 2011. Retrieved 8 May 2011. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ Currin, Grayson (16 August 2010). "Album Review – Oren Ambarchi / Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke – Tima Formosa". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
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