Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi


Oren Ambarchi
Born 1969
Origin Sydney, Australia
Instruments guitar, drums
Years active 1986-current
Associated acts Sunn O)))
Website orenambarchi.com
Notable instruments
modified/experimental guitar

Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist who in major plays electric guitar and drums, with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. He was born in Sydney, Australia in 1969[1] to a Jewish family originally from Iraq.

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Background

Ambarchi has been performing music live since 1986. In the late 1980s he played free jazz in Sydney, originally as a drummer.[2] In an interview with ABC Radio broadcaster, Jon Rose, Ambarchi described how he started playing guitar,

There happened to be one laying around in our rehearsal room. I picked it up and starting hitting it with drumsticks and using it in whatever way I wanted to use it in, and one thing led to another. I'm glad I wasn't trained. I've always loved rock music, I grew up listening to pop and rock, so that was in my mind, but I've also been interested in electronics. I never wanted to learn to play it properly, it was an object as much as an instrument.[2]

He was a member of noise band Phlegm with Robbie Avenaim, with whom he co-organised the What Is Music Festival. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, though he also plays drums and percussion in some of his live performances.[3]

Sunn O))) Collaborations

Ambarchi contributed to drone doom band Sunn O)))'s Black One album in 2005, and has since become a frequent live performer with the band, as well as contributing to the Oracle EP and Monoliths & Dimensions album.[4] He also released a vinyl EP with Attila Csihar and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson under the name Burial Chamber Trio; and has performed with Attila Csihar and Stephen O'Malley, the other half of Sunn O))), under the name Gravetemple. Ambarchi also works in popular music contexts and is a drummer for the group Sun with vocalist Chris Townend formerly of Kiss My Poodles Donkey.

In May 2010 he performed live with Boris at the Vivid Live Noise Night curated by Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. Ambarchi collaborated with multi-instrumentalist Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost on experimental music projects.[5]

Partial Discography

References

  1. ^ "Oren Ambarchi biography". Touch Music. 2002. Archived from the original on 06/01/2009. http://www.touchmusic.org.uk/Biographies/orenambarchi.html. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 
  2. ^ a b Rose, Jon (2003). "Re-wired Guitar - OREN AMBARCHI". Australia Adlib. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/arts/adlib/stories/s860640.htm. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 
  3. ^ caleb~k (2001). "OREN AMBARCHI INTERVIEW". Angbase. http://www.angbase.com/interviews/oren_ambarchi.html. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 
  4. ^ Stannard, Joseph (08/04/2009). "Sunn O))) Exclusive Interview Transcripts: Oren Ambarchi". The Wire (Issue 302). Wire Magazine. http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2343/. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 
  5. ^ "Warm Ghost". Partisan Records. 2011-05-08. http://www.partisanrecords.com/artists/warm-ghost/bio/. Retrieved 2011-05-08. 
  6. ^ Currin, Grayson (16/08/2010). "Album Review - Oren Ambarchi / Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke - Tima Formosa". Pitchfork. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14559-tima-formosa/. Retrieved 29 May 2011. 

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