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AMBARCHI, OREN - Live Knots

Oren Ambarchi presents Live Knots, two live realizations of Knots, the epic centerpiece of his 2012 album Audience of One (TO 083CD/LP). Built on the interplay between Ambarchis swirling guitar harmonics and the metronomic pulse and shifting accents of Joe Talias DeJohnette-esque drumming, the piece merges the organic push and pull of free improvisation with an overarching compositional framework. Tokyo Knots is the complete recording of a duo performance of the piece by Ambarchi and Talia recorded at Tokyos legendary SuperDeluxe in March 2013. The performance builds gently on the foundation of Talias insistent ride cymbal and the shifting tonal bed of Ambarchis rich, overtone-drenched guitar, eventually going into a free rock free fall of buzz saw harmonics and crashing drums. From within the maelstrom, Talia picks up a pulsing motorik rhythm that leads the piece back to where it began, with the addition of the shuddering, elastic tones of a hand-played spring reverb unit. Krakow Knots works with the same basic structure but stretches it out to nearly twice the length and adds strings played by the Sinfonietta Cracovia, led by Eyvind Kang on viola. The strings expand the pieces textural range with lush chordal blocks, uneasy dissonances, and occasional Ligeti-esque swarms of micro-activity, the swelling string tones intensifying the ecstatic nature of the piece as it moves toward its mid-point crescendo in which Ambarchi unleashes a particularly malicious continuum of stuttering harmonic fuzz. The strings then enter with a series of swelling chords, announcing the pieces final movement, and reaffirming the uniqueness of the tonal and compositional language that Ambarchi has patiently developed over the last two decades, in which the influence of post-minimal composers such as Alvin Curran, Gavin Bryars, and David Behrman can be felt alongside the inspiration of raw free jazz, harsh noise, and academic psychoacoustics. The final moments of the performance pit Talia and Crys Coles amplified objects and spring reverb textures against a field of gently gliding string glissandi before the audience erupts in much-deserved applause. - Francis Plagne.

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