A complete live performance from Australian guitar explorer Oren Ambarchi that took place in Holland in 2001, Triste was originally released as a vinyl-only title from Touch Records in 2003 and has long been out of print. Triste, offered in two parts, is a superbly realized piece of understated guitar-based minimalism, epic in length but delicate, fragile notes plucked and suspended in midair and left to decay, overtones floating dreamlike across Ambarchi's open spaces. Sparse and slow burning melodies appear, sad and forlorn, as the minutes drift by. By thirty minutes into the piece, subsonic bass frequencies and sublime feedback shimmer emerges and contorts into glitchy out buzzings and crackling currents and the angelic hum of a shorted instrument cable, woven together into rich shimmering drones and high end skree. Absolutely gorgeous. The original LP version on TOuch came with a 7" of extended remixes of Triste by Tom Rechion of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, and these tracks are also included on this CD...these are dense interpretations of the source material, yet just as lovely as Rechion adds Hammond organ, tape loops, synthesizer and cds to the mix, taking the originals and building thick melodic dronescapes, stacked with layers of warbling electronics and woozy melodies. Southern Lord has done a killer job of repackaging the original idea-label 220gsm/stoughton heavy-stock aqueous gloss sleeve edition into a stoughton cd-gatefold (retaining the original tina frank/inwirements design). Highly recommended.