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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…
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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mcclintic wrote:
http://www.thevsessions.com/en/resume.php?numsession=1 Last live record: go for it!
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ofgriding wrote:
Wow, this vid is amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Aix07MLHE
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CraigEvanson wrote:
listentoSCQ: when you said "Black Sea soundtracked my 'trip' " i thought you were going on to talk about something much more interesting : )
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a_bleeding_star wrote:
["Black Sea" is really Impressive]
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Heliosphaner wrote:
waiting for Plateaux Festival
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optimistic_tour wrote:
Revisiting Black Sea this fall, it became apparent how incredible the album is and how much I overlooked it at first. This is autumn/winter soundtrack perfection.
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marillchu789 wrote:
venice season.
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Schrollum wrote:
vote for his amazing new pic: http://last.fm/music/Fennesz/+images/37305593
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spacematador wrote:
This. On headphones.
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Coreyfornicatio wrote:
Endless Summer is such a good album
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Morganiano wrote:
I love Field Rec 95-02
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xxxxglosoli wrote:
Endless Summer for me.
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theStarry wrote:
I agree, Black Sea may very well be his best. Utter bliss.
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humansausage wrote:
Black Sea is the best. its a great combo of fennesz's undecipherable guitar noise with bits of melodic/less altered guitar sound. And the atmosphere and mood of this album :o i love it!
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Get_Fighted wrote:
It's not a split, it's a full-on collaboration. & it's pretty cool; definitely heavier on the Fennesz-style stuff than Sparklehorse.
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Bolshevized wrote:
Has anyone heard his new split with Sparklehorse? They're both talented, wondering if the result will be worthwhile.
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cbui wrote:
we had the pleasure of interviewing and featuring him, check out the feature in current issue of Title Magazine www.titlemagazine.net
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mecha51 wrote:
Tremendous artist. I've been listening to The Point of It All from Venice all week. As well as Black Sea. Simply amazing.
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MrZombie91 wrote:
Why so christian?
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listentoSCQ wrote:
Black Sea soundtracked my trip from Toronto to Montreal last winter; a tremendous album! Album review here: http://theskeletoncrewquarterly.blogspot.com/2009/02/black-sea-fennesz.html
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AzeriAzeri, patrickberlin and ThineDoor added Fennesz to their libraries. yesterday evening
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Silvio52 added Fennesz to the lineup of Linguaggi Estranei at GAM - Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna. yesterday afternoon
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Mudalocka and kagamusha70 added Fennesz to their libraries. yesterday morning
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livingdeadagogo, Ardepark, MushroomRazor and 2 other people added Fennesz to their libraries. Wednesday evening
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livingdeadagogo tagged Fennesz with blissful, glitch, experimental and one other tag. Wednesday evening
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grigorij_tse tagged Fennesz with ‘ambient’. Monday evening
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grigorij_tse, coma313 and gostush added Fennesz to their libraries. Monday evening
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