"its most glimmering elements shining like sunlight through cracks in a
wall, sharp as diamonds."
At the frontier of contemporary music is Fennesz: a meticulous laptop
conceptualist who weaves tangible melodies and glowing guitars through dense,
symphonic electronica. Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic
sound of enormous range and complex musicality. "Imagine the electric guitar
severed from cliche and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical
language." - (City Newspaper, USA).
Christian Fennesz is know from his own particular musical world as well as his
impeccable work in creating beautiful compositions for guitar. Somewhere
between concrete music, classical and ambience sounds, he stretches musical
resources and effects to create melodies and atmospheres that fuse classical and
orchestral concepts with conceptual musical research and complex digital
structures.
He has been recording and also performing with Ryuichi Sakamoto and playing live with Keith Rowe, Sparklehorse, Mike Patton and many others.
Fennesz has also worked alongside Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke in the improvisional trio Fenn O'Berg, and with David Sylvian who sang on his album "Venice" and for whom Fennesz composed the music for the song "A Fire in the Forest" for Davd Sylvian album “Blemish”.
2007 Fennesz and Sakamoto released a collaborative album entitled “cendre”: “Ryuichi Sakamoto and Christian Fennesz blend the unstructured and imaginative qualities of improvisation with the satisfying sculpture of composition. Sakamoto's piano, his style reminiscent of Debussy and Satie, perfectly complements Fennesz with his powerful blend of shimmering guitar and passionate electronics.”
Fennesz has done a 12 dates European tour together with Mike Patton, sharing the stage to do a “magic sonic duo” with unusual performance that is a hymn to radical creative freedom: electronic touches, krautrock landscapes, sampling, stormy drones, mellotron echoes, and mores…
Fennesz remixed the track “In This Twilight” on Nine Inch Nails remix album “Y34RZ3R0R3M1XED”.
Rolling Stone described him as "the most pictorial composer-programmer in
laptop electronica".
Ben Bortwick (the wire 09/05): Fennesz guitar and laptop live set demonstrate why he remains one of the most
engaging musicians using electronics. His treatment of the laptop and guitar allow
each to give up its identity to the other, exquisite guitar washes loosing their
specificity to the crackling textures of the laptop. Live guitar chords become loops
on the laptop and he constantly shifts between contradictions and possibilities of
each.
Fennesz official website for more infos and news: fennesz.com
Fennesz discography - click on album cover for details
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
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Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
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