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FENNESZ
“Agora”
Agora is Christian Fennesz's first solo album since 'Mahler Remixed' [Touch, 2014] and 'Bécs' [Editions Mego, 2014]. Fennesz writes: "Its a simple story. i had temporarily lost a proper studio workspace and had to move all my gear back to a small bedroom in my flat where I recorded this album. It was all done on headphones, which was rather a frustrating situation at first but later on it felt like back in the day when I produced my first records in the 1990s. In the end it was inspiring. I used very minimal equipment; I didn't even have the courage to plug in all the gear and instruments which were at my disposal. I just used what was to hand.
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). 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. He lives and works in Vienna.
19,00€
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FENNESZ
“Agora”
Agora is Christian Fennesz's first solo album since 'Mahler Remixed' [Touch, 2014] and 'Bécs' [Editions Mego, 2014]. Fennesz writes: "Its a simple story. i had temporarily lost a proper studio workspace and had to move all my gear back to a small bedroom in my flat where I recorded this album. It was all done on headphones, which was rather a frustrating situation at first but later on it felt like back in the day when I produced my first records in the 1990s. In the end it was inspiring. I used very minimal equipment; I didn't even have the courage to plug in all the gear and instruments which were at my disposal. I just used what was to hand.
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). 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. He lives and works in Vienna.
13,00€
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FENNESZ
“Fa 2012”
Fa 2012 + Fa (Mark Fell Remix). Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin, July 2012. Layout by Tina Frank. Special 12” featuring new versions of the track Fa, taken from the debut Fennesz solo album
‘Hotel Paral.lel’ (1997). 15 years after its initial release, Christian Fennesz gives this throbbing monster of a track a new seeing to, extending it and adding more of that magic he is so well known for. The album was always an exercise in exploring alternate means of hearing club based music. This new version carries that concept further. This is backed by a cracking new mix by the ever productive Mark Fell, adding is unique beat structures, and even a MLK sample, which lends his contemporary rhythmic landscape a odd nostalgic twist. This 12” can be seen as a warm up for the new Fennesz album, which is currently scheduled for 2013 release.
‘Hotel Paral.lel’ (1997). 15 years after its initial release, Christian Fennesz gives this throbbing monster of a track a new seeing to, extending it and adding more of that magic he is so well known for. The album was always an exercise in exploring alternate means of hearing club based music. This new version carries that concept further. This is backed by a cracking new mix by the ever productive Mark Fell, adding is unique beat structures, and even a MLK sample, which lends his contemporary rhythmic landscape a odd nostalgic twist. This 12” can be seen as a warm up for the new Fennesz album, which is currently scheduled for 2013 release.
Original price was: 9,50€.5,00€Current price is: 5,00€.
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FENNESZ
“Bécs”
The last time Fennesz released an album on Austrian label Mego it was 2001 and the name of that release was “Endless summer”. Now, in 2014 Editions Mego is extremely proud to release the conceptual follow up that landmark of abstract pop. Bécs (pronounced “baeetch”) is Hungarian for Vienna and is the first full length Fennesz solo release since 2008’s “Black Sea”.
Eschewing the more drone orientated works of “Black Sea”, “Bécs” returns to the more florid pop mechanisms as deployed on Endless Summer. “Static Kings” features the extra leverage of Werner Dafeldecker and Martin Brandlmayer who deploy a range of atmospheric abstract effects to shape a bewitching sound world. The 10 minute centrepiece “Liminality” (featuring Tony Buck on drums) is classic Fennesz: epic, evocative, beautiful, impossible. “Pallas Athene” creates a
sanctuary of hovering beauty which leads into the title track. Emotional and assured, the track Bécs’ is an astonishing contribution to contemporary pop. “Sav” (co-written by Cédric Stevens aka Acid Kirk) inhabits a less structural terrain as one enters a forest of small sounds and oblique atmospheres, where the closing “Paroles”, a gentle melody unravels amongst swirls of electronics and fried disruption. Bécs is not just an album or a series of songs, it’s a world to
inhabit, a landscape ripe with sounds, songs and that esteemed Fennesz signature. A singular work by a singular artist.
All tracks by Christian Fennesz, except “Sav” by Cédric Stevens & Christian Fennesz. Modular Synthesizer on “Sav” by Cédric Stevens. Bass on “Static Kings” by Werner Dafeldecker. Drums on “Static Kings” by Martin Brandlmayr. Drums on “Liminality” by Tony Buck. Recorded & mixed at Amann Studios, Vienna, 2013/14. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Cover design by Tina Frank.
Eschewing the more drone orientated works of “Black Sea”, “Bécs” returns to the more florid pop mechanisms as deployed on Endless Summer. “Static Kings” features the extra leverage of Werner Dafeldecker and Martin Brandlmayer who deploy a range of atmospheric abstract effects to shape a bewitching sound world. The 10 minute centrepiece “Liminality” (featuring Tony Buck on drums) is classic Fennesz: epic, evocative, beautiful, impossible. “Pallas Athene” creates a
sanctuary of hovering beauty which leads into the title track. Emotional and assured, the track Bécs’ is an astonishing contribution to contemporary pop. “Sav” (co-written by Cédric Stevens aka Acid Kirk) inhabits a less structural terrain as one enters a forest of small sounds and oblique atmospheres, where the closing “Paroles”, a gentle melody unravels amongst swirls of electronics and fried disruption. Bécs is not just an album or a series of songs, it’s a world to
inhabit, a landscape ripe with sounds, songs and that esteemed Fennesz signature. A singular work by a singular artist.
All tracks by Christian Fennesz, except “Sav” by Cédric Stevens & Christian Fennesz. Modular Synthesizer on “Sav” by Cédric Stevens. Bass on “Static Kings” by Werner Dafeldecker. Drums on “Static Kings” by Martin Brandlmayr. Drums on “Liminality” by Tony Buck. Recorded & mixed at Amann Studios, Vienna, 2013/14. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Cover design by Tina Frank.
12,50€
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FENNESZ
“Seven stars”
The Kalahari desert is a vast and open space where most of the wildlife is nocturnal. After sunset the dunes, grasses and thorn bushes are patrolled by an emerging alien empire - the insects. Midnight at the Oasis’ presents an unseen soundscape from this beautiful and hostile environment.
9,00€