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01. Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - A contradiction has started to devour the numerical sequence We may be made aware that normal??? exists finally
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02. Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Thinking too deeply I skipped over ¯¯ three by three
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03. Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - "Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose" This makes the modesty which should never been closed off itself Continue to ask itself: "Ready or not?" Part 1
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04. Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - "Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose" This makes the modesty which should never been closed off itself Continue to ask itself: "Ready or not?" Part 2
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05. Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Overtightened the screw of the password to mystery drowns in an infinite number
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ARTIST
HAINO/JIM O'ROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI, KEIJI
TITLE
"Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose" This makes the modesty which should never been closed off itself Continue to ask itself...
FORMAT
2LP
LABEL
BLACK TRUFFLE
CATALOG #
BT 097LP
BT 097LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
10/28/2022
Full title:
"Caught in the dilemma of being made to choose" This makes the modesty which should never been closed off itself Continue to ask itself: "Ready or not?"
The renowned trio of
Keiji Haino
,
Jim O'Rourke
, and
Oren Ambarchi
return to Black Truffle with their 11th release. Demonstrating once again their commitment to continual experimentation in instrumentation and approach, the record begins with a long-distance collaboration made in response to a commission from New York's Issue Project Room in 2021 during widespread lockdowns and travel limitations. A unique piece in the trio's extensive body of work, this side-long epic finds Haino performing on metal percussion, O'Rourke on electronics, and Ambarchi on gongs and bells. Initially dominated by rapid patterns on resonant, high-pitched tuned percussion, the piece sets Haino's dynamic and dramatic performance against a calm backdrop of cycling electronics, thrumming gong strikes and hanging bell tones. The performance develops a heightened, intensely concentrated atmosphere reminiscent of Haino's classic
Tenshi No Ginjinka
or his
Nijiumu
project. The remainder of the double-LP documents the trio live at Tokyo's SuperDeluxe (the location of all but their very first recording) in a wide-ranging set recorded in December 2017. The concert opens, in another first for the trio, with Haino on drums, O'Rourke on Hammond organ, and Ambarchi on his signature Leslie cabinet guitar tones. Haino's explosively untutored approach to the drumkit will be familiar to some listeners from the radical duo iteration of
Fushitsusha
heard on
Origin's Hesitation
. Accompanied by O'Rourke's organ and Ambarchi's guitar, which in their shared use of long tones and shifting modulation speeds almost blend into a single voice, the opening sections of this performance are some of the most magical music the trio has committed to tape thus far. After an interlude of spoken vocals in both Japanese and English, Haino makes a dramatic entrance on guitar. By the time you reach the third side, the guitar/bass/drums power trio is established and lurches into a passage of massive, lumbering rock that threatens to fall apart at every beat, O'Rourke's strummed chordal work on six string bass creating a harmonic density equivalent to a second guitar. An abrupt edit throws the listener in media res into a frantic locked groove grounded by fuzzed-out bass patterns and caveman drums. As Haino moves through a variety of approaches, from massive edifices of stuttering fuzz to ominous swarms of feedback, the trio eventually stumble into a kind of Harmolodic military tattoo, Haino's guitar weaving and slashing across the rhythm section's irregular accents. Moving through an epic opening duet for O'Rourke on Hammond and Haino's wailing guitar, the fourth side eventually ramps up into a frenetic finale of mad bass riffing, crackling snare hits, and guitar squall. Gatefold sleeve on heavy stock; inner sleeves containing live pics by
Tsuyoshi Kamaike
. Photography by Jim O'Rourke, design by
Lasse Marhaug
, and translation by
Alan Cummings
.
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