Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi‘s works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: live electronics; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal.

Ambarchi has performed and recorded with an array of artists including Fennesz, Charlemagne Palestine, Sunn 0)), Thomas Brinkmann, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Akio Suzuki, Phill Niblock, John Tilbury, Richard Pinhas, Evan Parker, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Fire! and many more. His acclaimed trio with Keiji Haino and Jim O’Rourke performs in Tokyo annually with many of their concerts documented on Ambarchi’s Black Truffle label. Ambarchi has released  recordings on labels including Touch, Southern Lord, Editions Mego, Drag City, PAN, Kranky and Tzadik. His latest solo release is Quixotism which was listed in The Wire magazine’s top 50 releases