Oren Ambarchi Keith Rowe
squire CD 1762 Oren Ambarchi - g cover: Keith Rowe, Günter Müller released 26.10.2006 
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«…Beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is one of the more immediately accessible releases to grace the catalogue. As it has an almost symphonic sense of itself, it is comfortable with enabling the listener to have both passivity and participation as equally adequate responses to the proceedings. One can pick up on the most minor components or quite simply get lost as it builds organically, enjoying the graceful, spiraling feel that recurs throughout the album.» «…Just raise your hand high up in the sky and say, "please, can I have some more!".» «A great work, where the listener can't go wrong: two masters at work.» «Un grande lavoro per due grandi artisti.» «You like deep decent drones, created with analogue gear and guitar, which you don´t recognize as a guitar anymore? Then this release for sure might be something for you.» «It's a constant flow of tiny, crispy sounds on top of calm feedback. The music slowly gets more dense and detailed during the first half an hour. After that a dark and calm soundscape has been created, larded with occasional peeps and tiny sounds. Lovely.» «… Aber das, was hier in einer flachen Kurve durch Raum und Zeit sirrt und schnarrt, ist bis zur völligen Unkenntlichkeit weit von allem entfernt, was die für Wahrnehmung zuständigen Hirnregionen mit ‚Gitarre‘ assoziieren. Alles, was hinaus geht über Feedbackbrummen und -bitzeln und knispelndes Hantieren, das die Saiten nur wie unabsichtlich mit dem Ärmel streift oder mit einem Kabel touchiert, ist einfach im Plan dieser Schöpfung nicht vorgesehen.» «You’ll find plenty of elements familiar from each man’s bag of sounds, from Ambarchi’s subsonic bass swells and wavering, endless drones to Rowe’s harnessed electrical rumble and crackle, but here they seem especially patiently deployed.» «One of the most remarkable things about the body of work Keith Rowe has released in recent years is how damned difficult it is to review…» «Cette lente respiration fantomatique séduira les amateurs…» «Drones can be a blunt tool, but this cunning performance creates trompe l'oreille and produces sounds with a clear sense of their own identity.» «Recorded about a year after the series of earlier collaborations with Ambarchi and others (‘Flypaper’, ‘Thumb’ and ‘Honey Pie’), ‘Squire’ is substantially stronger than those pleasing enough if unspectacular efforts. …‘Squire’ is less polite than its title, a good recording and one worth hearing.» «A Squire was recorded live a few months after Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi’s duo debut Flypaper. The music here feels much more involved and engaging, for a significantly more satisfying album. … connoisseurs will find here that prized drifting quality that was missing from Flypaper. Recommended.» |
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