Willscher

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Excellent crossover between glitch electronica, popmusic and guitar/postrock.

“In the tradition of Robert Hampson or Christian Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi and Nicholas Willscher (alias Zammuto) [sic] have relegated their guitars to the rank of sound generator. The Australian Oren Ambarchi composed Insulation without any digital processing of the sound. The eleven pieces on his premier album explore directions ranging from the glitches of Mego to ones more focused on texture or repetition and reminiscent of more academic work. If the way in which Ambarchi produces concrete sounds or sonorous fragments to exacerbated granularity – like a meeting between Farmers Manual and Main – remains a mystery, the finesse of the whole makes this work the most exciting disc to come from the Londoners Touch in the last few months. Zammuto, for his Willscher, has used a computer; however his songs are still lo-fi and the musical traits of rock’n’roll are easily recognizable. Recalling the the electronica concrete of Matmos, the music on Willscher consistently returns to grain, to breath, and to the roughness of sound. The nine pieces on this premier disc from the New York label Apartment [B] evoke a physical rapport with the guitar. If Zammuto’s pallette of sounds is more restrained than Ambarchi’s, the formats of his compositions are clearly more pop. “Mbast (goodanswerremix)” could be the product of mice (on Mars, of course) nibbling on David Pajo’s guitar, while “Swap(a, b);” and “Some Moss” show how the extreme use of the flanger (?!) can create an astounding mixture of acoustic melodies and electro-acoustic click’n’bass. Willscher is a monument of post-post-rock. (poorly translated by Danny)”