Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie // Cold Shoulder LP
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当店おなじみの実験音楽家Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrieが、2026年6月にギリシャのFutura Resistenzaからリリースした共作レコードです。
ライブ録音2曲を収録。版元即完のため今回限りの入荷となります。
※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Futura Resistenza releases available at Tobira.
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12" black vinyl.
Tracklist:
1. This Cold Shoulder 23:26
2. That Cold Shoulder 23:12
Text excerpt written by Francis Plagne, via the label:
"...Cold Shoulder” captures a very different moment in Oren and Will’s work, marked by its expansiveness and relaxed confidence. The drum kit reasserted its central place in Will’s music many years ago, with his recent solo work developing in tandem with the exploration of Gamelan and other instruments in the hybrid percussion Ensemble Nist-Nah. Oren’s singularly effects-pedal based approach to the electric guitar has continued to develop restlessly over recent years, as certain elements he returns to insistently—the swirling, stuttering Leslie cabinet tones, organ-like sustained chords, and guitar-synth glides—have become new signatures. Those drifting, spiralling Leslie tones are one of the first things we hear on “Cold Shoulder”, joined by Will’s chiming cymbals and ringing gongs. Even in these opening moments of ambient drift, Will’s playing has a subtly implied pulse; the play between stating and dissolving rhythmic cycles is one of the joys of his performance here. Oren plays a similar game with melody, as a single line will rise out of the harmonic cloud to form a motif, fading back again before anything gets too fixed.
The movement between moments is beautifully organic, meaning both embracing of continuous flow and seizing opportunities for the music to make sudden lateral shifts. I can’t help but feel that, for both players, the journey through the extremes of abstraction was necessary to allow them to make music this direct and intuitive. Will shows his mastery of the ‘vibrating skins and metal’ approach to the kit pioneered by players like Han Bennink and Tony Oxley, but he can also make you appreciate the beauty of a tambourine played in the conventional way. Oren’s approach to the guitar is still a long way from Jim Hall (one of his guitar heroes), but he increasingly plays the instrument in a recognisable way, in, for instance, the beautiful Henry Kaiser goes Alice Coltrane harp ripples built up to in the second half of this performance. A lot of writing about music celebrates the virtues of youthfulness, and we can all think of bands who got less interesting with time. But “Cold Shoulder” shows us something different: a freedom that comes with decades of experience, a lack of anxiety that means Oren and Will can simply play (and have the insouciance to choose a portrait of George Michael for the cover). I can only hope that we’ll all still be around to hear what they’re doing in 2046!"
Artist : Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie
Label : Futura Resistenza
cat no : RESLP043
Release date : 9th June 2026
当店おなじみの実験音楽家Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrieが、2026年6月にギリシャのFutura Resistenzaからリリースした共作レコードです。
ライブ録音2曲を収録。版元即完のため今回限りの入荷となります。
※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Futura Resistenza releases available at Tobira.
-------------------------------------
Ask us for digital files.
12" black vinyl.
Tracklist:
1. This Cold Shoulder 23:26
2. That Cold Shoulder 23:12
Text excerpt written by Francis Plagne, via the label:
"...Cold Shoulder” captures a very different moment in Oren and Will’s work, marked by its expansiveness and relaxed confidence. The drum kit reasserted its central place in Will’s music many years ago, with his recent solo work developing in tandem with the exploration of Gamelan and other instruments in the hybrid percussion Ensemble Nist-Nah. Oren’s singularly effects-pedal based approach to the electric guitar has continued to develop restlessly over recent years, as certain elements he returns to insistently—the swirling, stuttering Leslie cabinet tones, organ-like sustained chords, and guitar-synth glides—have become new signatures. Those drifting, spiralling Leslie tones are one of the first things we hear on “Cold Shoulder”, joined by Will’s chiming cymbals and ringing gongs. Even in these opening moments of ambient drift, Will’s playing has a subtly implied pulse; the play between stating and dissolving rhythmic cycles is one of the joys of his performance here. Oren plays a similar game with melody, as a single line will rise out of the harmonic cloud to form a motif, fading back again before anything gets too fixed.
The movement between moments is beautifully organic, meaning both embracing of continuous flow and seizing opportunities for the music to make sudden lateral shifts. I can’t help but feel that, for both players, the journey through the extremes of abstraction was necessary to allow them to make music this direct and intuitive. Will shows his mastery of the ‘vibrating skins and metal’ approach to the kit pioneered by players like Han Bennink and Tony Oxley, but he can also make you appreciate the beauty of a tambourine played in the conventional way. Oren’s approach to the guitar is still a long way from Jim Hall (one of his guitar heroes), but he increasingly plays the instrument in a recognisable way, in, for instance, the beautiful Henry Kaiser goes Alice Coltrane harp ripples built up to in the second half of this performance. A lot of writing about music celebrates the virtues of youthfulness, and we can all think of bands who got less interesting with time. But “Cold Shoulder” shows us something different: a freedom that comes with decades of experience, a lack of anxiety that means Oren and Will can simply play (and have the insouciance to choose a portrait of George Michael for the cover). I can only hope that we’ll all still be around to hear what they’re doing in 2046!"
Artist : Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie
Label : Futura Resistenza
cat no : RESLP043
Release date : 9th June 2026
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