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OREN AMBARCHI - Persona
BLACK TRUFFLE
CD // £10.99
CLICKS / GLITCH
Released: Feb 2009
Catalogue Number: BT02

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As with the Stacte.3 reissue - also out this week - Persona originally surfaced in 2000. The music here was conceived just one week on from Ambarchi's star-studded collaborative album, Afternoon Tea, featuring Christian Fennesz, Keith Rowe, Peter Rehberg and Pimmon. A glance over Ambarchi's discography reveals this turn-of-the-century period to be an especially productive time for him, and the recording circumstances of Persona reflect this feverish turnover: the whole album had been laid down in a single day, using only a guitar, a handful of effects pedals and a boombox. The results are made all the more breathtaking by the music's humble genesis, demonstrating Ambarchi's acute compositional instincts with a series of varied drone sculptures. The first track takes on a pulsating (you might even say 'motorik') bass tone that evolves over the course of five minutes or so, attracting bell-like harmonies, flickering like static in the background. Next up comes a more ambiguous series of tones, glitching quietly between ironed-out loop fragments before the crackle - the noise from the joins between the drones - takes over in the final few minutes, giving your ears a warm bath of granular digital electronics. The third track is surely the finest of the bunch, revealing some incredibly subtle melodic components and shuffling up strange, pitchshifted guitar intervals during the first half, before eventually succumbing to a more acerbic, hiss-strewn atmosphere in the final moments that recalls the album's coarse, bass-heavy opening. It's a massively impressive early work, and you can certainly see why Touch picked him up soon after its release. As with the Stacte series, the music here lends an insight into Ambarchi's elemental beginnings, and if you weren't one of the 300 people who picked up the original edition, this would easily pass for an entirely new Oren Ambarchi album - and a very progressive sounding one at that.

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