Shebang cover

Shebang

Released

Oren Ambarchi is our poet of evenness. The bible of this was and is Hubris (2016), a massive work that, like another composition of his, Knots, has various iterations. On Shebang, Ambarchi begins with guitar but conceives like a drummer, which he is. He is joined by a dozen or so players, building out from hammered guitar figures that reproduce the dynamic flatline of an electric fan hitting a pencil. Ambarchi introduces variation by adding instruments and shifting tonality while keeping a fixed level of attack for each instrument. It’s a play on minimalism, with more chaos in the arrangement than you’d get from Reich and more machine-like drive than you hear in an Eastman score.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Desire Path cover

Desire Path

Lila Tirando a Violeta
Intra cover

Intra

Drumming, Mark Fell
God cover

God

Rip Rig + Panic
Attitude cover

Attitude

Rip Rig + Panic
★ cover

David Bowie
Substance cover

Substance

Moisture
Crânio cover

Crânio

DJ Nigga-Fox
Fast Edit cover

Fast Edit

Still House Plants