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ARTiST....: oren ambarchi
TiTLE.....: in the pendulum's embrace
LABEL.....: Touch
GENRE.....: avantgarde
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 48,0 MB
REL.DATE..: sep-16-2007
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01] fever, a warm poison 17:55
02] innamorata 10:20
03] trailing moss in mystic glow 12:36
TOTAL TiME : 40:51 min
Ambarchi continues to investigate every possible
avenue available to the deconstruction of the
guitar, with this - his follow up to the euphoric,
pastoral, "Grapes from the Estate". "In the
Pendulum's Embrace", further reduces and distils
Ambarchi's guitar sound, and fuses it with glass
harmonica, percussion, strings, bells, and piano.
Yet from this welter of instrumentation emerges a
spare, enigmatic soundscape. These protracted
dirges, these tendrils of sound instantly remind
of Labradford on downers - all of the components
of the composition minutely dissected and exposed,
each tone hovering, never yielding to unbearable
tension.
Ambarchi still severs his source material,
reconfiguring and sliding components in and out of
each piece, but with a much lighter touch than on
previous works. His trademarks are still present
and prevalent, and the techniques no less honed,
but this time more phorensically explored; a music
that consists of equal parts of space and
activity, inviting the listener into taut,
transcendent realms where time slows down, and all
is not as it seems.
"Fever, a warm poison" is an atmospheric, 18
minute opener to the album that envelops with its
claustrophobic atmosphere, followed by
QInnamorata", where guitar and strings take a more
prominent position amongst the dense ambience.This
is quietly intense stuff, a logical descendent of
the previous works on Touch, "Suspension and
Insulation". The closing piece, "Trailing Moss in
Mystic Glow" tremors with sub-bass, shimmering
guitar, and micro fine slithers of electronica,
teetering on the brink of "clicks and cuts"
sensibility.
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