Oren Ambarchi

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.

Ambarchi's work on harmonics and resonance has led him to define serene spaces of fluid, shifting sound that is both fragile and extremely physical. His solo releases Grapes From The Estate, Suspension and Insulation for UK label Touch, have transcended the guitar into a zone of alien beauty and sonic impossibilities to critical acclaim. In 2003 his live release Triste received an 'honourary mention' in the Prix Ars Electronica digital musics category.

In 2002 alone he has made 7 extensive international solo guitar tours.

He has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Martin Ng (Australia), Sunn 0)) (USA), Christian Fennesz (Austria), Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Pimmon (Australia), Keiji Haino (Japan), John Zorn (USA), Rizili (Greece), Voice Crack (Switzerland), Sachiko M (Japan), Keith Rowe (UK), Phill Niblock (USA), Gunter Muller (Switzerland), Evan Parker (UK), Robbie Avenaim (Australia), Toshimaru Nakamura (Japan), Dave Grohl (USA), Damo Suzuki (Japan), Chris Townend (Australia) and many more.

Ambarchi is involved in many collaborative projects including the song-based duo Sun with Chris Townend (releases on Staubgold, Preservation, Textile & Important records), Burial Chamber Trio together with Greg Anderson of Sunn 0))) & Atilla Csihar of Mayhem (with a recent LP release on Southern Lord & an upcoming 10" release) and Grave Temple with Csihar and Stephen O'Malley of Khanate & Sunn 0))). Southern Lord have recently released The Holy Down a Grave Temple live document recorded in Israel in July 06. His much loved long-running duo with Rizili the Menstruation Sisters have releases on labels such as Menlo Park, No Fun, Ecstatic Peace, Saucerlike & more. The Four Gentlemen Of The Guitar is a quartet formed by Keith Rowe of AMM in 2004 featuring Ambarchi, Christian Fennesz, Toshimaru Nakamura & Rowe. Their 2CD release Cloud was released by Erstwhile records.

For 10 years together with Robbie Avenaim, Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? Festival, Australia's premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. The What Is Music? festival hosted over 200 local and international performers. Ambarchi now curates the weekly "Maximum Arousal" series at The Toff In Town in Melbourne and has recently co-produced a television series for SBS on experimental music called Subsonics.

• 1998 - Stacte - 224 Kbps
• 1999 - Stacte 2 - 192 Kbps
• 1999 - Insulation - 320 Kbps
• 1999 - The Alter Rebbe's Nigun [with Robbie Avenaim] - 256 Kbps
• 1999 - Clockwork [with Robbie Avenaim] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Afternoon Tea [ Fennesz, Pimmon, Peter Rehberg & Keith Rowe] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Reconnaissance [with Martin Ng] - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Stacte.3 - 320 Kbps
• 2000 - Persona - 256 Kbps
• 2001 - Suspension - 256 Kbps
• 2002 - Honey Pie [with Keith Rowe & Robbie Avenaim] - 256 Kbps
• 2002 - Thumb [with Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide & Robbie Avenaim] - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Flypaper [with Keith Rowe] - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Mort Aux Vaches - Song of Separation - 320 Kbps
• 2002 - Der Kleine König - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Triste - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Vigil [with Martin Ng] - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - My Days Are Darker Than Your Nights [with Johan Berthling] - 320 Kbps
• 2003 - Oystered [with Günter Müller & Voice Crack] - 256 Kbps
• 2003 - Live In Victoriaville [with Tim Hecker] - 192 Kbps
• 2004 - Grapes From The Estate - 320 Kbps
• 2004 - Strange Love [with Günter Müller & Philip Samartzis] - 320 Kbps
• 2006 - Squire [with Keith Rowe] - 320 Kbps
• 2006 - Willow Weep And Moan For Me [with Tetuzi Akiyama & Alan Licht] - 320 Kbps
• 2006 - Stacte Motors - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - In The Pendulum's Embrace - 320 Kbps
• 2007 - Lost Like A Star - 233-236 Kbps
• 2007 - Worried Friends / Nervous Enemies [with Lasse Marhaug] - 256 Kbps
• 2008 - A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks - 256 Kbps
• 2008 - Spirit Transform Me [with Z'EV] - 256 Kbps
• 2008 - Destinationless Desire - 220-224 Kbps
• 2009 - Intermission 2000-2008 - 320 Kbps
• 2009 - Treatise [with  Cornelius Cardew & Keith Rowe] - 320 Kbps
• 2010 - Tima Formosa [with Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino] - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Hit & Run [with Joe Talia] - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Indeed [with Jim O'Rourke] - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - Dream Request [with Robbie Avenaim] - 320 Kbps
• 2011 - In a Flash Everything Comes Together as One There Is No Need for a Subject [with Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Connected [with Robin Fox] - 256 Kbps
• 2012 - Sagittarian Domain - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Audience Of One - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - In The Mouth - A Hand [with Fire!] - 320 Kbps - LP
• 2012 - In The Mouth - A Hand [with Fire!] - 320 Kbps - CD
• 2012 - いみくずし Imikuzushi [with Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Wired Open Day 2009 [with  Alan Lamb, Garry Bradbury, David Burraston, & Robin Fox] - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - Raga Ooty / The Nilgiri Plateau - 320 Kbps
• 2012 - The Mortimer Trap* [with Thomas Brinkmann] - 320 Kbps
• 2013 - The Just Reproach [with John Tilbury] - 320 Kbps
• 2013 -  まだ　暖かい内に　この今に　全ての謎を　注ぎ込んでしまおう Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour In All The Mystery [with Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino] - 320 Kbps
• 2013 - Cat's Squirrel [with Merzbow] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Shade Themes From Kairos [with Stephen O'Malley & Randall Dunn] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Quixotism - 192 Kbps
• 2014 - Alps [with Eli Keszler] - 256 Kbps (CDr only)
• 2014 - ただ美しく溶けてしまいたいのに　まだまだ満ち足りていないから　まだ見えてないはずの　ほうが愛おしく　思えてしまう Only Wanting to Melt Beautifully Away Is It a Lack of Contentment That Stirs Affection for Those Things Said to Be as of Yet Unseen [with Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Tikkun [with Richard Pinhas] - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Stacte Karaoke - 320 Kbps
• 2014 - Amulet - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Live Knots - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Sleepwalker's Conviction - 256 Kbps
• 2015 - Behold [with Jim O'Rourke] - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Tea Time for Those Determined to Completely Exhaust Every Bit of This Body They've Been Given [with Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino] - 320 Kbps
• 2015 - Tongue Tied [with Johan Berthling] - 320 Kbps
• 2016 - Pale Calling [with James Rushford ‎ & Kassel Jaeger] - 320 Kbps

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