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Shebang by Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi Shebang (Drag City Records)

❝ Picking up from the staccato guitar patterns that ran through Hubris, Shebang’s single 35-minute track begins with a precisely interwoven lattice of chiming guitar figures, expanding Hubris’ monolithic pulse into a joyous, hyper-rhythmic melodicism that calls up points of reference as disparate as Albert Marcoeur, early Pat Metheny Group, and Henry Kaiser’s It’s A Wonderful Life. Building from isolated single notes into densely layered polyrhythms, the muted guitar tones are joined by subtle touches of shimmering Leslie cabinet tones and guitar synth. ❞ *

Only eight minutes of the full album are available until the release date (September 30) but no doubt the complete recording will prove to be a deeply meditative stream of sounds ideal for brain focus.

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/oren-ambarchi-i-oren-ambarchi-shebang-drag/

❝ From this productive period came not only the cut-ups and the Dream Machine but also [Brion] Gysin’s “roller grid” prints. “Repetitive yet always featuring distinct markings,” points out University of Delaware exhibition notes, “the roller grids represented an idiosyncratic system, an irrational order, combining repetition and chance. The principle of the “rolling grid” (endless repetition with endless variation) can be seen at work in many of Gysin’s and Williams S. Burrough’s projects, including the Dream Machine.” ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/from-this-productive-period-came-not-only-the/

Vision Of Darkness Vol. II by Various Artists

Visions Of Darkness in Iranian Contemporary Music Vol. II

❝ … further confirmation of the creative richness and variety of musical languages that flourished in the Persian land. In spite of the title, this second volume of the legendary anthology also gives us a broad picture of the musical experience of the Iranian underground that is not limited to the dark ambient, but explores sonic territories that reach concrete music, electro-acoustic experimentation and sonic abstractionism. Persia, the cradle of a millenary culture, is teeming with young talents who continue their musical research with enthusiasm, pride and self-denial in the territories of drone music, as in electronic experimentalism and in the contamination of genres. ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/unexplained-sounds-group-koohestan-visions-of/

John Miller Dress Rehearsal for the Revolution, 2019

❝ For Dress Rehearsal for the Revolution, Miller configured a mannequin school of rock, deadpan and frozen in a state of detached contemplation. Read together, the ensemble prompts questions about youth culture as a projection screen for hopes of societal renewal. How might one reconcile this optimism with the realities of nine-to-five conformism and corporate ownership of labor? ❞ *

https://memora8ilia.com/index.php/2022/07/12/john-miller-dress-rehearsal-for-the-revolution/