OREN AMBARCHI

Grapes From The Estate

Genre: MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT, ELECTRONIC

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2LP (Black Vinyl)

Boomkat Product Review:

Oren Ambarchi offers a necessary new vinyl edition of his 'Grapes From The Estate' classic on Black Truffle. Out of print on any format for years, it’s a pleasure to see and hear this new reissue in the flesh, and to be reminded of when its floating harmonic tones first deeply seduced us and our friends. True to say its lost none of its capacity to soothe and absorb listeners like few other records we can think of. A proper modern drone evergreen.

“Oren Ambarchi's third solo project for Touch [after Suspension and Insulation] sees him reaching beyond the work for electric guitar that he's become recognised for, expanding his palette and taking his investigations into another sphere entirely. Grapes from the Estate features new instrumentation (strings, tuned bells, percussion and others that can only be guessed at), but the singular and unmistakable influence that Ambarchi exerts on these new materials is what makes it such an indelible work.

There is a reconciliation of his love of song-based music and his determination to deal in pure sound. The result is a work that truly eludes such arbitrary definitions. Grapes From The Estate is an all consuming experience that draws the listener out of an ordinary sense of time, into a world beyond it.

On more than any other release, his entire body of work to date can be experienced in a single statement. There are the seemingly random tonal structures that are such a large part of his vocabulary, the playfulness and humour of his formative noise schooling, his love of free jazz, of pop music, and rhythmic elements, perhaps subconsciously derived from his Sephardic heritage. Another outpouring of personal, intimate and enduring music from Oren Ambarchi.”

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