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- Summary: The five piece album from the experimental Australian composer features contributions from such artists as Matt Chamberlain, Thomas Brinkmann, Crys Cole, the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, Eyvind Kang, Jim O' Rourke, John Tilbury, and U-zhaan.
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- Record Label: Editions Mego
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Experimental Ambient, Microsound, Post-Minimalism, Sound Art
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Dec 1, 2014As its title suggests, Quixotism’s narrative arc is obscure, and as such the album contains no real highlights or low points; instead, each part maintains a discrete identity of its own, serving both as groundwork for each subsequent part and the basis for its counterpoint.
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Dec 1, 2014For an artist who has traditionally experimented with recording methods, Quixotism is another landmark, thanks largely to how natural it sounds in spite of its ambitious approach.
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The WireDec 15, 2014It moves with a tighter, more mechanistic gait than 2012's similarly relentless Sagittarian Domain, but it's no less transfixing. [Nov 2014, p.72]
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Dec 1, 2014The giant, immense void that swallows sound in Part 1 shows itself in Part 5 to be just another windmill, slain by Ambarchi’s guitar and studio magic.
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Dec 1, 2014It’s wonderful stuff, a model of restraint and subtlety that also has visceral pleasures.
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MojoDec 1, 2014When it ends it leaves a weird absence that can only be filled by playing the thing again from the start. [Dec 2014, p.90]
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Dec 1, 2014The digital kick drum sounds wander across the stereo field as Ambarchi deftly mixes in sounds ranging from his own haunted guitar harmonics to synth gurgling from Jim O'Rourke and even long stretches of heavily lingering string arrangements from the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
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