Haino + O'Rourke + Ambarchi灰野・オルーク・アンバーチ

Live: Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi Artist infomation: Keiji Haino  Jim O'Rourke  Born 1969 in Chicago. O’Rourke encountered the music of Derek Bailey as youngster and began visiting him in London at the age of 13. Eyes opened to the power of improvisational guitar, he released several of his own highly experimental works and has worked closely with John Fahey and Loren Mazzacane Connors. During his long association with the Chicago experimental and improv scene O’Rourke participated in several bands and projects including Gastr Del Sol and Loose Fur. His work with Takehisa Kosugi music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as well as Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Christian Wolff and others built bridges between contemporary and popular music. O’Rourke’s release of landmark albums Bad Timing and Happy Days in 1997 and Eureka in 1999 garnered much attention. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of Sonic Youth, playing bass, guitar and synthesizer as well as recording and mixing the band. In 2004 he won a Grammy Award for his production of Wilco’s A Ghost is Born. O’Rourke has also earned a loyal following for his participation in numerous albums by various artists around the world. He has a deep knowledge of Japanese culture and currently lives in Tokyo. Some of his many production credits in Japan include Quruli, Kahimi Karie, and Eiko Ishibashi. He also continues to be a consummate collaborator, working with Akira Sakata, Merzbow, Yoshihide Otomo, Seiichi Yamamoto, Boredoms and others. His recordings of Toru Takemitsu’s Corona for pianists Tokyo Realization was awarded the Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival Award for Excellence in 2006. He has also scored films by Werner Herzog, Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama, Koji Wakamatsu and others. His own short films have been part of the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2005 Rotterdam Film Festival. O'Rourke is a diverse and powerful artist. Always searching, his borderless activity goes beyond the common labels Alternative, Post-rock, Experimental-pop, Film music, Free music, Jazz, Americana, Contemporary music and continues to defly classification. Oren Ambarchi  Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal. Ambarchi has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Pimmon, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Rizili, Voice Crack, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Dave Grohl, Gunter Muller, Evan Parker, z'ev, Toshimaru Nakamura, Peter Rehberg, Merzbow and many more. Since 2004 Ambarchi has worked with American avant metal outfit Sunn 0))) contributing to many of their releases and side-projects including their Black One album from 2005 and the recent Monoliths & Dimensions release. For 10 years together with Robbie Avenaim, Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. The festival hosted over 200 local and international performers. Ambarchi now curates the Maximum Arousal series at The Toff In Town in Melbourne and has recently co-produced an Australian television series on experimental music called Subsonics. Ambarchi recently co-curated the sound program for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale. [Homepage](http://www.orenambarchi.com/) / [MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/45213783) Photograph of Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi taken by Ujin Matsuo Previous releases: Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi tea time for those determined to completely exhaust every bit of this body they’ve been given  Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Mar 17, 2013 (Electric set) Limited edition LP / CD Design: Stephen O'Malley Photography: Ujin Matsuo, Lasse Marhaug (C) 2014 Black Truffle Records / medama records Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi Only Wanting to melt Beautifully away is it a lack Of contentment that stirs affection For those Things Said to be as of yet unseen  Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Mar 17, 2013 (Acoustic set) Limited edition LP / CD Design: Stephen O'Malley Photography: Ujin Matsuo, Lasse Marhaug (C) 2014 Black Truffle Records / medama records Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery  Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Jan 30, 2012 Limited edition LP / CD Design: Stephen O'Malley Photography: Ujin Matsuo, Shunichiro Okada (C) 2013 Black Truffle Records / medama records Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi Imikuzushi  Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Jan 6, 2011 Limited edition Double LP in stunning gatefold sleeve / CD Design: Stephen O'Malley Photography: Ujin Matsuo, Shunichiro Okada (C) 2012 Black Truffle Records / medama records The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with IMIKUZUSHI, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of last year’s highly praised ‘in a flash everything comes together as one there is no need for a subject’ (BT05) and bringing to them a newly sustained intensity. For this performance, Haino limits himself to electric guitar and vocals, forming complex networks of slashing rhythm work, noise squall and chromatic shredding, moving at times to near-silent passages of howled vocals and isolated, hanging guitar strums. The tendency towards driving free-rock which surfaced on moments of the trio’s last release is cemented here, with O’Rourke’s fuzzed-out, non-linear bass riffing moving the music into almost garage-rock areas, combining with Ambarchi’s drums to form a bedrock of hypnotic, metronomic pounding which transforms itself effortlessly into passages of flowing free-time. Like all of Haino’s best work, the trio transcends any ‘rock’ genre exercise to enter a non-idiomatic zone of ritual intensity, creating a music formed purely out of instrumental and group-mind possibility. Presented as four unedited excerpts salvaged from an epic show that lasted well over three hours, the sometimes raw nature of the recording only add to its directness and harshly emotive quality. (Francis Plagne, Melbourne, Nov, 2011) 　 　 Keiji Haino + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi in a flash everything comes together as one there is no need for a subject  Recorded live at SuperDeluxe Jan 24, 2010 Limited edition Double LP in stunning gatefold sleeve (C) 2011 Black Truffle Records / medama records 　 　 Oren Ambarchi + Jim O'Rourke + Keiji Haino TIMA FORMOSA  Recorded live at CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu Jan, 2009 Compact Disc (C) 2010 Black Truffle Records Special Thanks:  Related events Thursday October 23, 2014 Okkyung Lee Jim O'Rourke Oren Ambarchi Open 6:45pm / Start 7pm Place: Playhouse, Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center (River Walk 6F) Prior booking is essential [CCA KITAKYUSHU](http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/index.html)