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Artist:	AMBARCHI & ROBBIE AVENAIM, OREN
Title:	Dream Request
Label:	BO WEAVIL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$23.50
Catalog #:	SIDRA 005LP

Bo Weavil presents a sublime duo recording from old sparring partners Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim, recorded live in Tel Aviv in 2009. This is a single edit of the performance which perfectly captures the chemistry between Robbie's busy percussive maneuvers and Oren's textural overlay. A previous performance of the pair was documented on the Clockwork CD (re-issued by Room40) and prior to this the notorious The Alter Rebbe's Niggun CD was released on Tzadik. Here, the two come together with an energetic performance of free interplay. Steeped in rock, electronics and feedback, the duo conjures an ecstatic instrumental journey. Momentum builds while shifting around a variety of sonic styles until the entire patchwork is laid bare, exposing all the nuance within. Edition of 350 numbered LPs, housed in a heavyweight silkscreened sleeves.

Artist:	AMBARCHI & ROBBIE AVENAIM, OREN
Title:	Clockwork
Label:	ROOM40 (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	EDRM 404CD

"Its initial release -- an edition of 100 3" CD-Rs on Ambarchi's Jerker Productions label back in 1999 -- let it slide by just enough aesthetic radars to register among cognoscenti. Coupled with Ambarchi's solo work from the era, the recording marked a shift from the gonzo-rock of the duo's previous band, Phlegm. Things happen throughout Clockwork that had never really happened before. Recorded in front of a live audience for that 'what we did on our holidays' feel, Avenaim and Ambarchi unravel their detourned instrumental panoply into a series of parallel universe propositions -- (ie. If Ambarchi's concurrent vinyl-only Stacte series was Alvin Lucier and Cluster collaborating for Mego, then Clockwork is Mickey Hart's Gamelan Orchestra performing Ionisation). This reissue of Clockwork -- its reinstatement in the 'marketplace' for immediate edification and dissemination -- and that one of the most important pieces of the Ambarchi/Avenaim puzzle will finally achieve its deserved position within a trajectory of non-idiomatic improvisation."

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