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  • Summary: Experimental guitarist Oren Ambarchi and electronic artist Robin Fox came together in 2011 to work on this soundtrack for the Australian dance company, Chunky Move.
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  • Record Label: Kranky
  • Genre(s): Electronic, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Experimental Ambient, Microsound, Post-Minimalism, Sound Art
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 17, 2012
    80
    Moving from deliciously tense cop-show rhythms to echoing guitar feedback and pure-signal electronic buzz. [Jan 2013, p.98]
  2. Magnet
    Dec 4, 2012
    80
    If you're looking to get good and lost, this record's your ticket. [No. 93, p.52]
  3. Dec 4, 2012
    80
    Besides being an impressive melding of unlikely worlds, the five pieces here are transcendently beautiful, and essential listening for a fan of either player or any sound art enthusiast.
  4. Dec 4, 2012
    70
    Thankfully, Connected, despite the richness of its sounds, is spacious enough to leave room for the imagination (with the slight exception of "Trios," which teems with movement). That's not to say it's empty.
  5. The Wire
    Dec 7, 2012
    70
    The album is a fairly effective sampler of Ambarchi's various modes. [Dec 2012, p.58
  6. Dec 4, 2012
    68
    Connected is far from being the first record to make a virtue out of spinning in place, but there's a discipline and control here that's rarely heard, a feeling of two musicians utterly dominating their craft.