Grapes From the Estate

Ambarchi, Oren
Touch
General | Jul 2004

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2004-07-15
Experimentalist creates tones with treated and modified guitars that defy the senses. All very ambient, hypnotic, chill, though some are chill intrumental song-like. The effect is often that of pioneering Eno or Eliane Radigue, with slow to build hypnotic sine waves and subtle simple sparse yet simultaneously complex with dense beauty. Australian composer.

Tracks 1,4 are experimental
Tracks 2,3 are more “accessable”.
All great.

1) slow build up of looping harmonizing sine waves, stunningly beautiful, hard to believe this is all guitar
2) more tones, then brushed drums appear subtle yet striking in their effect and pretty guitars and quiet Hammond organ make this almost songlike, accessable
3) looping, almost like a looped sample from a prog jazz or post rock piece at first, chill, drums appear, strings and it all gets very songlike, long
4) long, similar to track 1 with building hypnotic layers of tones

Recent airplay

Girl with the Silver Eyes
Remedios the Beauty
CatharsisNov 26, 2012
Corkscrew
The Courtesy FlushJan 22, 2010
Corkscrew
Lost and FoundFeb 07, 2009
Corkscrew
Emphysema For EmphasisSep 20, 2008
Remedios the Beauty
Rock in a PositionJan 10, 2006

Charting

2004-08-02 — 2004-10-03 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
Oct 3 3
Sep 26 1
Sep 19 2
Sep 5 2
Aug 29 1
Aug 22 3
Aug 15 1
Aug 8 4

Track listing

1. Corkscrew
2. Girl with the Silver Eyes
3. Remedios the Beauty
4. Stars Aligned, Webs Spun