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Christian Fennesz’s trademark sound combines guitar playing with digital techniques like granular synthesis. This style has been described as “Rock meets PowerBook”.

His oeuvre is far broader though - he’s been at the forefront of digital music for many years now. Hotel Paral.lel won the Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Digital Musics in 1999 along with Pita’s Seven Tons For Free.

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 cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language.” - (City Newspaper, USA).

Christian Fennesz is known from his own particular musical world as well as his impeccable work in creating beautiful compositions for guitar. Somewhere between concrete music, classical and ambiance 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.

Fennesz has been recording with Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom he also plays live, with Keith Rowe, Sparklehorse, Mike Patton, etc…
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  • boehj

    some real gold in here.

    29 minutes ago

  • RussellChap

    Idylltronica

    Thursday evening

  • JonathanAltd

    Why doesn't some label put out Venice on vinyl? [2]

    Thursday morning

  • plannetshh

    in a class of his own

    8 days ago

  • _CaRtZ_

    Field recordings!

    15 days ago

  • shakedatthang

    Fa

    18 days ago

  • KozmikTentacles

    Why doesn't some label put out Venice on vinyl? By far my favorite Fennesz release.

    23 days ago

  • Ins_Gadget

    best maker of music of all time

    25 days ago
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