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Artist:
AMBARCHI/O'ROURKE/HAINO
Title:
Tima Formosa
Label:
BLACK TRUFFLE (AUSTRALIA)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
BT 004CD
Black Truffle presents a stunning document of the debut meeting of international trio
Oren Ambarchi
,
Jim O'Rourke
and
Keiji Haino
. Recorded live at the Playhouse, Kitakyushu, Japan in January 2009,
Tima Formosa
retains a mysteriously alien atmosphere throughout its three lengthy explorations with Ambarchi's mesmerizing textures and signature, deep guitar tones beautifully merging with O'Rourke's Tudor-esque piano-feedback interjections. Haino provides the icing on the cake via his melancholic, higher consciousness choral vocals and bewildering electronics. Co-released with the Center For Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu with deluxe packaging designed by
Stephen O'Malley
of
Sunn 0)))
.
Artist:
AMBARCHI/O'ROURKE/HAINO
Title:
In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One...
Label:
BLACK TRUFFLE (AUSTRALIA)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$26.50
Catalog #:
BT 005LP
...There Is No Need For A Subject
Recorded one year after the international trio of
Keiji Haino
,
Jim O'Rourke
and
Oren Ambarchi
's first release (
Tima Formosa
[BT 004CD]),
In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject
presents the entirety of a live performance that took place at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo on January 24th 2010. For their second performance together, the trio opted for an entirely different instrumental configuration. Here they form a classic power trio: Ambarchi on drums, O'Rourke on bass and Haino on guitar, vocals, electronics and, in one amazing passage, lap steel. While the instrumentation has changed, the mysterious atmosphere of their first collaboration remains: far from a rock genre exercise, this performance is steeped in the dark ritualistic mood that characterizes all of Haino's best work. Haino is in truly phenomenal form herein, foregoing the single-instrument explorations of much of his recent solo work and his more peripheral role on the trio's first release for a virtuosic and wide-ranging performance that takes in piercing leads, delicate strumming, jarring lap-steel interjections and his inimitable vocal caresses and howls. O'Rourke's bass sometimes merges with Haino's guitar to form crumbling walls of noise; at other times his dark ostinatos and runs add melodic weight. Ambarchi's drumming moves from delicate, propulsive cymbal work to endless thundering streams of free-pulse pounding. The title of the release is appropriate: from the spacious and unpredictable slow-mo interactions of the first piece (reminiscent of some of the greatest
Fushitsusha
moments) to the wild free-riffing that concludes the performance, the trio seems uncannily attuned to one-another's movements, and everything truly "comes together as one." Released as a limited edition double LP in a lavish gatefold with printed inner sleeves, designed by
Stephen O'Malley
with high quality live shots by
Ujin Matsuo
and a stunning cover-image by noise-guitar blaster and internationally renowned visual artist
Marco Fusinato
. Vinyl cut made by
Rashad Becker
at Dubplates & Mastering.
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