For ‘Audience of One’, Oren Ambarchi has enlisted a number of highly respected collaborators, including Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney to perform four immense pieces that are complex, challenging, and above all, extremely varied.
In contrast to the soft whispy fabric of the gently woven opener, ‘Knots’ is a thorny entanglement of sound that’s massive in every sense: sprawling over a time of over thirty-three minutes, its quiet, rumbling beginnings metamorphosise into a deep, rolling drone over which crazed harmonics and heavily processed distorted guitar run sonic riot. The percussion is buried in the drift, clanking away submerged under a tsunami of cacophonous sound. It’s an immense track, and worth seeing out ‘Audience of One’ for on its own.
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The final diptych of ‘Passage’ and ‘Fractured Mirror’ with a combined running time of a quarter of an hour takes a rather different trajectory, being altogether more gentle, and magnificently accomplished pieces, rich in texture and tone.
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