OREN AMBARCHI / IGNATZ

Oren Ambarchi (AU)
In the sound quest of the Australian guitar player and percussionist Oren Ambarchi (1969) a broad range of influences can be traced, from freejazz, noise and ethnic music to conventional song structures and minimalist composition. His solo work mainly focuses on the electro-acoustic transformation of the guitar, as a laboratory for tone research. The result is an abstract, fragile world of sound, in which the borders of time and space are constantly challenged. In the past Ambarchi has worked with a wide variety of musicians, such as Martin Ng (Australia), Christian Fennesz (Austria), Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Pimmon (Australia), John Zorn (USA), Voice Crack (Switzerland), Sachiko M (Japan), Keith Rowe (UK), Phill Niblock (USA), Günter Müller (Switzerland), Evan Parker (UK) and Toshimaru Nakamura (Japan). He has been recently spotted in the company of the much-discussed drone assembly sunn0))).

www.orenambarchi.com

Ignatz (BE)
Grown up on a diet of lo-fi pop, ancient blues and the ‘Smithsonian Anthology Of Folk’, Bram Devens labels himself, not without irony, as a lo-fi fascist. Armed with nothing but a couple of seedy guitars, an archaic tape recorder and some effects, he creates disjointed sound scraps, mounted from a haze of improvised melodic figures and dark noise shadows. Both wayward and enchanting, intimate and alienating, romantic and poignant, his rich art-brut compositions explore the dark corners of the musical spectrum, where beauty arises out of intuition and confrontation.

www.kraak.net

NOTE: concert Géographique (BE) has been CANCELLED !!!
Like Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide or Philip Jeck, Xavier Garcia Bardon and Clément Laloy from Brussels experiment with vinyl as a sound source. This results in epic compositions hovering on melancholy sound waves, screeching figures and tiny textures. Their music is constructed from loops, only occasionally hinting at a touch of melody, but in their repetition and dialogue they create an evocative atmosphere of mystery.

www.geographique.tk