Fennesz - Black Sea
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Artist: FenneszEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-24
Music Label: Touch UK
Soundtracks:
- Black Sea
- The Colour of Three
- Perfume for Winter
- Grey Scale
- Glide [Live]
- Vacuum
- Glass Ceiling
- Saffron Revolution
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Here comes Fennesz, with his highly anticipated fourth studio album on Touch. Christian Fennesz is a prolific Vienna based composer who has been crafting electronic multi-layered laptop compositions with an aid of his guitar since the late 90s. Or is it the other way around? His guitar driven pieces with a heavy dose of DSP? Either way, Fennesz has developed that instantly recognizable and many times imitated sound. His vast discography extends through numerous EPs, remixes, soundtracks and collaborations, most notable of which is his work with Ryuichi Sakamoto on Cendre (Touch, 2007); as well as Cloud (Erstwhile, 2005) on which he worked with Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura and Oren Ambarchi. With a collection of works approaching the count of 30, Fennesz's last solo studio release was four years ago, Venice (Touch, 2004). So it should be no surprise that the fans jumped in anticipation to grab this 2008 release, Black Sea. And I hope the fans are not disappointed. Fennesz picks up where he left off with Venice, building on his trademark of processed and filtered guitar sound. Faint melodies cut with their pale beauty through a sharp fuzzy white haze. Sure, it may sound like over-driven, bit-crushing, pixel-offsetting, standing noise you have heard before on another album. But let me remind you once more, that Fennesz has been pioneering this sound well before the advancement of software and saturation of costly plugins on the market. On a nine-and-a-half minute track called Glide, for example, Fennesz is joined by Rosy Parlane [check out his albums Iris (Touch, 2004) and Jessamine (Touch, 2006)], to build up an incredible swell of sound, that buzzes to an orchestral crescendo, until it breaks into a tidal wave of near silence, which washes off the coast of a Black Sea. Experience Fennesz if artists like Alva Noto, Philip Jeck, Jan Jelinek, and Oren Ambarchi are on your radar.
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Christian Fennesz's lush and luminant electronic compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. Guitars that rarely sound like guitars; the instrument is transformed into an orchestra, a shimmering, swirling sound of enormous range and complex musicality. These 'songs' embody the skilful application and manipulation of dense sonic textures with a genuine feel for the live, and real-time. Featuring duets with New Zealand's Rosy Parlane and the prepared piano of Melbourne composer Anthony Pateras, Black Sea pushes his work into a more classical and ambient domain, preferring a slow reveal of transcendent digital eruptions to the more song-based structure of Venice or Endless Summer.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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