{"product_id":"oren-ambarchi-johan-berthling-andreas-werliin-ghosted-ii","title":"OREN AMBARCHI, JOHAN BERTHLING, ANDREAS WERLIIN - Ghosted II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff0000;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn utterly unique guitar\/bass\/drums triad: the guitar sounds like anything but a guitar; bass and drums simultaneously insistent and relaxed. Telepathic group-think opens a window to fresh fields of fusion: funk-jazz heads, polyrhythmic skeletons, ambient pastorals, post-kraut drones and shimmering soundtrack reveries. A music of sustained tension and deep atmosphere, marked by subtle, shifting dynamics playing out in an open sound field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMissing out on that super-chill, uber-jittery minimal groove thing? Let’s get real, real Ghosted again.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOren Ambarchi\u003c\/strong\u003e has been collaborating with the \u003cstrong\u003eFire!\u003c\/strong\u003e trio (\u003cstrong\u003eMats Gustafsson\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJohan Berthling\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eAndreas Werliin\u003c\/strong\u003e) for over a decade – and both Johan and Andreas played on Oren’s Live Hubris as well. Oren and Johan began music-making together back in the early aughts – but it wasn’t until 2021 that the three of them got together to record music. That became the first \u003cem\u003eGhosted\u003c\/em\u003e album. When they were done, it was clear they had founded a new group. A music of sustained tension and deep atmosphere marked by subtle, shifting dynamics, \u003cem\u003eGhosted\u003c\/em\u003e was released in May of 2022 to psyched response everywhere; the trio embarked upon an ongoing series of concert bookings around Europe, with loads of other people in the world still hoping to have the chance to be in the room at the next show. Two years on, \u003cem\u003eGhosted\u003c\/em\u003e has gone through several represses, now it’s time for the “dreaded follow up album”! Rather than go back to the well, the guys decided to tear everything down and start all over again, reimagining themselves from scratch.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust kidding! As we’ve noted, Oren, Johan and Andreas have been playing together for years and years, developing an essential telepathy within their shared space. They get each other and feed each other’s music processes on an elemental level. Why change that? What made the most sense was to go back to \u003cstrong\u003eDaneil Bengtsson\u003c\/strong\u003e at \u003cstrong\u003eStudio Rymden\u003c\/strong\u003e in Stockholm for a couple days, then have \u003cstrong\u003eOren\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJoe Talia\u003c\/strong\u003e mix and Joe master it at \u003cstrong\u003eGood Mixture\u003c\/strong\u003e in Melbourne again, then get \u003cstrong\u003ePål Dybwik\u003c\/strong\u003e to do some well-distinctive cover art, and once more, call it a record.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat’s just what they did — and it should be no surprise at all that the new \u003cstrong\u003eAmbarchi\u003c\/strong\u003e\/ \u003cstrong\u003eBerthling\u003c\/strong\u003e\/\u003cstrong\u003eWerliin\u003c\/strong\u003e album looks and sounds as engrossing as their debut, if not more so! \u003cem\u003eGhosted II\u003c\/em\u003e has a definitively fresh quality radiating throughout. The mutual feeling among the three players goes deep, allowing for lots more to say every time they get together — a further recombination of elements, a new expedition through alternative angles... there’s always more, and incredibly, it’s all improvised, with next-to-nothing prepared going in and minimal overdubs after they’ve laid things down. References are shared in shorthand, with just a single word, like “Santana,” or “Police” acting as working titles for certain pieces on this record (have a guess!). It’s a disservice to call them jams: above and beyond the innate feel of the songs, there’s a strong sense of structure, informed by the band’s communal aesthetic, and edified immeasurably by their time spent in concert the last couple years.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs noted at the top, these guys balance their music improbably between a relaxed feel and a nervy resolve, as each member holds down their corner in an open sound field. Making \u003cem\u003eGhosted II\u003c\/em\u003e, the band found that there’s a different kind of tension making something for an established project rather than the kind one feels making something for the first time — and they used this new variety, as before, as a kind of fuel — driving their terse minimalism fruit-fully through the process of succumbing to and then transcending guilty pleasures. 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