Exciting news coming from the Fennesz camp lately. First off, Touch is set to release a new Fennesz solo album, Black Sea, on vinyl November 25 and CD December 9. (What, no pay-what-you-want scheme, Wal-Mart exclusive, or Live Nation 360 deal? Now that's avant-garde!) Using acoustic and electric guitars, synths, electronics, lloopp, and computers, the album has been described by my dear friend ...
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A stones throw from the famous Denmark Street and Tin Pan Alley, the current church of St. Giles was rebuilt to a Palladian style from a pre-existing Gothic building in 1734. I'm not aware of anyone rocking out on the huge late 17th-century organ back in the day, but beyond hymns, music in a house of God may have been frowned upon up until fairly recently. Various Miles of Smiles shows take pla...
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Fennesz & Sparklehorse - In The Fishtank 15 (2009, Konkurrent)Independent Dutch label Konkurrent have been getting artists to collaborate on their In The Fishtank series (the title comes from the name of the studio used), with each release drawing bigger names and bigger results. Even so, this must be seen as a bit of a coup for them. After all, if you took electronic music's hottest property a...
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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...
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Here's a 2007 release that I've been meaning to cover in detail for a while. Touch Music was launched in 1982, initially releasing cassette magazines. Twenty five years later, Touch is at its peak, perfecting their output with carefully selected works by Christian Fennesz, Ryuuichi Sakamoto, Oren Ambarchi, Biosphere, Ryoji Ikeda, Philip Jeck, Chris Watson and Mika Vainio, amongst others. Since ...
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About 10 days ago, I went to see, as part of the yearly "Villette Sonique":http://www.villettesonique.com/ festival, a collaboration between Fennesz & Patton and the first performance of Nurse with Wound in Paris!+*Fennesz & Patton*+Although they come from different universes, Patton and Fennesz have shared stage during a European tour to do an unusual performance that is a hymn to radical crea...
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A stones throw from the famous Denmark Street and Tin Pan Alley, the current church of St. Giles was rebuilt to a Palladian style from a pre-existing Gothic building in 1734. I'm not aware of anyone rocking out on the huge late 17th-century organ back in the day, but beyond hymns, music in a house of God may have been frowned upon up until fairly recently. Various Miles of Smiles shows take pla...
More >
Exciting news coming from the Fennesz camp lately. First off, Touch is set to release a new Fennesz solo album, Black Sea, on vinyl November 25 and CD December 9. (What, no pay-what-you-want scheme, Wal-Mart exclusive, or Live Nation 360 deal? Now that's avant-garde!) Using acoustic and electric guitars, synths, electronics, lloopp, and computers, the album has been described by my dear friend ...
More >
Fennesz & Sparklehorse - In The Fishtank 15 (2009, Konkurrent)Independent Dutch label Konkurrent have been getting artists to collaborate on their In The Fishtank series (the title comes from the name of the studio used), with each release drawing bigger names and bigger results. Even so, this must be seen as a bit of a coup for them. After all, if you took electronic music's hottest property a...
More >
Here's a 2007 release that I've been meaning to cover in detail for a while. Touch Music was launched in 1982, initially releasing cassette magazines. Twenty five years later, Touch is at its peak, perfecting their output with carefully selected works by Christian Fennesz, Ryuuichi Sakamoto, Oren Ambarchi, Biosphere, Ryoji Ikeda, Philip Jeck, Chris Watson and Mika Vainio, amongst others. Since ...
More >
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...
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| 1 Black Sea |
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| 2 The Colour of Three |
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| 3 Perfume for Winter |
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| 4 Grey Scale |
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| 5 Glide |
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