Oren Ambarchi is an experimental musician whose work explores the effect of music of tremulous beauty played at brutal volume. Born in Australia, he has a long history of challenging, absorbing solo work, and collaborations with some of the most prestigious artists working in the field of contemporary music: ranging from the high art seriousness of Keith Rowe, Evan Parker, Sachimoko M, Phil Niblock and Christian Fennesz, to Dave Grohl and the satanic majesties of experimental metal, Sunn o)), with whom he has recently toured. Ambarchi also played on their recent ‘Monoliths and Dimensions’ and 2005’s bleak masterpiece, ‘Black1’, plays with Greg Anderson and Attila Csihar in Burial Chamber Trio, and released the ‘Grave Temple’ album with Stephen O’Malley. Ambarchi also co-curates the essential ‘What Is Music’, Australia’s most important festival of experimental music.

Wed May 20th
Oren Ambarchi solo
+ Our Love will Destroy the World
+ Sign of the Hag
9 pm @ The Hole in the Wall
154 Vivian St
Wellington
New Zealand