Album Review: Simian Angel by Oren Ambarchi

Collaboration and hybridization are two forces that yield interesting musical mutations, and this is especially true when the splicing involves a couple of already multivalent characters. Cyro Baptista is the skipping stone across the traditionally placid surface of Oren Ambarchi's synthesized guitar tone on "Palm Sugar Candy." His hand drums, shakers, and whispered vocalizations reshape the tonal ambience until the ripples multiply and overlap, describing new and slightly distorted patterns.   Baptista opens side two's title track with a ….

Full Review >>