{"title":"Fennesz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Fennesz, born in Vienna, Austria in 1962, is a renowned musician and artist. He began his career as the singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Maische, an influential band that emerged from the vibrant viennese underground scene of the late eighties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFennesz's unique musical style combines elements of ambient music with experimental soundscapes. His innovative use of digital technology and guitar manipulation has earned him critical acclaim and a dedicated following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith numerous solo albums and collaborations under his belt, Fennesz continues to push boundaries and explore new sonic territories. His mesmerizing compositions captivate listeners with their intricate layers of texture and emotion. Experience the captivating world of Fennesz's music today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cendre","title":"Cendre","description":"\u003cp\u003eRyuichi 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. \u003ci\u003eCendre\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded between 2004 and 2006, Fennesz would send Sakamoto a guitar or electronic track and Sakamoto would compose his piano piece. Vice versa - Sakamoto initiating a track with a piano composition and Fennesz responding. Meanwhile they met for live shows, or communicated via digital means to compare notes, swap ideas and develop themes.. the cyclical process continued right up until they met up for the final mix in New York City February of 2006. 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Once launched, Hotel Paral.lel was to instigate a sublime exploration of a wide variety of forms, from formal abstraction to shimmering drone around to ground zero glitch pop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded just before mobile computing devices became omnipresent it was an investigation into the sonic possibilities residing in guitar based digital music. Sz launches the career with a constantly buzzing sound that resembles a fax machine encountering a G3 laptop for the first time, realising the game is up. Nebenraum is the first foray into the style for which one would attribute to Fennesz. A glacial drone unexpectedly morphs into a gorgeous melody and microscopic groove. Adding pulse and melody was hearsay in the radical end of experimental music up until this point and with this single gesture, everything changed, for everyone. Blok M nails this trajectory home with a straight up 4\/4 beat. Such rhythm also features on Fa with a euphoric mix of a thudding beat, sharp splinters of noise and a devastating exploding melody. Repetition plays heavily through this album as the hyper metronomic beat on traxdata lays a bed for all manner of buzzing electronics. On the closing \"Aus\" we see a glimpse of what was to come in the future works of Fennesz, an experiment in popping, bubbling pulse pop. A far more darker and experimental work than Fennesz' subsequent work. This is an exquisite radical field of freeform noise, sliced techno beats and subtle ambient texture all coming together to create a timeless work. There's little out there in the world of music, still to this day, that sounds remotely like Hotel Paral.lel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a radical reinvention of music Hotel Paral.lel is an essential addition to collectors of pioneering music in the late 20th Century and sounds as enthralling today as it did to the shocked ears occupying 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50463159419211,"sku":"1150189","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fe265660-8021-405a-92ac-80faa14d46de_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727262234"},{"product_id":"black-sea-2022-reissue","title":"Black Sea (2022 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Sea, was his 4th album, and is on a 2x10\" vinyl repress. Beginning with some of Fennesz' trademark neo-industrial gurgles, it folds in bits of guitar and strings rather beautifully, creating a cluster of sound that trembles, seeming to wait for something. And that something moves in gradually in the form of a massive cloud of distortion, a fine white mist of harmonics mixed with a dark undercurrent of rumbling bass. The tension between these elements is so well balanced, each individual element remaining in the mix even as the sound field becomes impossibly dense, that it's no surprise that it takes a while to get it just right. His lush and luminant compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. They resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" 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). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touch","offers":[{"title":"Black | 10\" | x2","offer_id":50479344058699,"sku":"1163921","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/de23cee7-55f4-4bae-ba95-9e357ece4256_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727507540"},{"product_id":"edition-1","title":"Edition 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe next step for King Midas Sound is a series of collaborative records. Titled Editions 1-4, each record will see King Midas Sound collaborate with a different artist, released through Ninja Tune. The first of these is with Austrian guitarist and sound artist Christian Fennesz. 'Edition 1' is a tide coming in. A fog reaching out into nothing, and encapsulating everything. An ultimate parting note drifting into absolute loneliness, swept up in a sumptuously blurred, dronal haze. Hallucinatory tone poems of heartbreak, despair, disappearance, and displacement. Seductively spatial sketches of long goodbyes. Music to cling to or to be used to move past. Sounds set adrift on their own tonal plain and reigned back in by Roger and Kiki's complimentary, yet extremely different deliveries. Cosmic blues meets a siren's song. A zonal re-examination of 'It's Raining Today' or an audio representation of a Sugimoto 'Seascapes' photo... A high water mark forever etched to memory. Edition 2 through 4 to follow, with collaborators kept under wraps, each one to be a genre-stretching and boundary-pushing surprise, packaged with a conceptual continuity.CD - CD format includes a bonus disc of instrumental versions. LP - Vinyl format includes digital download of all tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ninja Tune","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50493655679307,"sku":"393006","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5ae5a9e6-74c8-4c24-ae07-edb53d700bc7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727699609"},{"product_id":"venice-20","title":"Venice 20","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 20th anniversary re-issue of Fennesz's best-selling \u003ci\u003eVenice\u003c\/i\u003e, originally released in 2004, is now available as a deluxe version remastered by Denis Blackham, with new and extra tracks not on the previous CD or vinyl versions. Included in the DVD-format edition is a booklet with texts by Fennesz himself, Denis Blackham \u0026amp; Jon Wozencroft, with unseen photographs from the original 2004 sessions. The booklet also reproduces David Sylvian's original handwritten lyrics for 'Transit'. This \"stunning collaboration with David Sylvian continues where their fantastic duo track on Sylvian's album Blemish left off. Situated directly in the middle of a mostly subdued listening experience, 'Transit' literally bursts out of the speakers accentuating the album's more pop-like characteristics as well as its more restrained moments.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Touch","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50507290444107,"sku":"2212410","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_9ddfc9c8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727845883"},{"product_id":"complementary-contrasts","title":"Complementary Contrasts","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the liner notes, by Reinhard Kager: “Two different temperaments, the same background – this observation was the basis of the idea of inviting eRikm and Fennesz to form a duo for the first time. A few days before the duo premiered at the Donaueshinger Musiktage 2003, the musicians met in the SWF studios to try out strategies for playing together. This CD captures the two best takes from these studio sessions along with the recordings of the festival concert, which lasted about 40 minutes. Although they are much more abstract than the rock-like Donaueshinger concert, the studio takes reveal most strikingly that the new duo is united in inner harmony.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Outhere","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50526585258315,"sku":"1087476","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c7908164-e262-48b7-af3c-56b3b9d9f426_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728045576"},{"product_id":"mosaic-14","title":"Mosaic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFennesz's\u003c\/strong\u003e most reflective album to date is \u003cem\u003eMosaic\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Unlike his previous albums, which had breaks in between, '\u003cem\u003eMosaic\u003c\/em\u003e' was completed from start to finish without interruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresented in a DVD-style case with artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft, '\u003cem\u003eMosaic\u003c\/em\u003e' bears an echo to '\u003cem\u003eVenice\u003c\/em\u003e' but with a more extreme contrast between the land, horizon, and deep blue sea, twenty years later. \u003cem\u003eMosaic\u003c\/em\u003e sees \u003cstrong\u003eFennesz\u003c\/strong\u003e experimenting with unusual time signatures. For example, '\"Love and the Framed Insects\"' features a 7\/4 time signature, while '\"Personare\"' draws influence from West African pop music of the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Goniorizon' initially consisted of six hard rock guitar riffs layered on top of one another, eventually morphing into something that opened up new possibilities. 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