Cooked is the second solo album Oren Ambarchi has released on Drag City Records he collaborates on this album with Joe Talia, Johan Berthling, Will Guthrie, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Michiko Ogawa, Marcus Pal, Fredrik Rasten, James Rushford, Andreas Werliin and Konrad Sprenger. Mixed and edited by Joe Talia with Oren Ambarchi February 2025 in Melbourne and Edited by Oren Ambarchi at the Shitting Wheel, Berlin.
The album opens with Hidden Tableau that has a quiet ambience with slow piano whirls, ever so slowly shifting till a long tone and dripping sounds come and go along with the odd vocal grumbles of the sort you might make after the alarm clock has gone off, when you don't want to get up. Eventually the drums arrive deep in the back of the mix with other ambient interjections not really disturbing the calm new age ambience this appears to conjure up, like the cello strokes beside the slow cymbal flares, eventually some organ flurries meander all over the place.
Sleight Of Hand is the background music for an odd evening of close magic at the magic circle, the slow bass notes with minimal drums and Celeste perfect to divert your mind from what your eyes are seeing. The bass becomes ever more supple as things disappear and re-appear in bewildering ways, the synths and celeste intertwining as tubes seem to lift the table in front of you. It slowly starts to fade down with birds twittering above, having just emerged mysteriously from your wine cooler, they are now circling the room with the keyboards calling to them while the wine waiter whistles while he uncorks another bottle without touching the bottle.
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