Oren Ambarchi (born 1969) is an Australian experimental musician and guitarist known for processed electric-guitar-based ambient, drone and electronic works.

Born 1969; Australian; widely known for using the electric guitar as a sound generator and for creating ambient/drone textures through processing and layering.

Two DeBaser reviews focus on Ambarchi's obsession with sound and his use of processed electric guitar to create ambient/drone textures. Suspension is described as a 54-minute exercise in suspended attention; Grapes From The Estate is praised for circular, micropolychromatic soundscapes. Both reviews highlight immersive, disorienting listening experiences.

For:Listeners of experimental, ambient and drone music; fans of processed-guitar soundscapes.

 There is a compulsive attention to sound in the tracks of this album by the Australian musician of Jewish origin Oren Ambarchi, born in 1969.

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 Listening to "Grapes from the estate" (preferably with headphones, with the bass at maximum, and perhaps wrapped in twilight) inevitably drags you intoa dimension of self-consciousness, attentive and astonished, where the music transforms into a mutating synesthesia, as if in search of an alchemical formula to align in one's mind (and everyone's) a sort of unique and ecstatic sensation of the 5 senses, and more...

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