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artista : Fennesz & Sakamoto | |
| titolo : Sala Santa Cecilia | ||
| etichetta : Touch | ||
| formato : CDEP | ||
| packaging : digipak | ||
| cod. nr. tone22 | ||
 | 2005 | |
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| Every once in a great while, a collaboration comes along which hints at a brighter future, a collision of giants that indicates a convergence of method and music. This is one such event. Sala Santa Cecilia documents the meeting of worldwide laptop guru Fennesz and Japanese electronic music legend Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Auditorium Parco della Musica for the Romaeuropa Festival in Rome, November 2004. This is a unique and complete 19-minute piece which marks the recording debut of this new collaborative unit. It is exclusively available via this CD EP and will not be released elsewhere, and not as part of the forthcoming Fennesz Sakamoto album. The impact and importance of this recording is difficult to overstate. Christian Fennesz is far and away the standard- bearer of laptop music, his thawed sound of fractured guitar chords and warm noise melts hearts around the world. Ryuichi Sakamoto, meanwhile, a contributing force in electronic music for almost three decades in Yellow Magic Orchestra and his vast solo oeuvre, takes his place on laptop next to Fennesz for this historic meeting. Anyone concerned with the future of sound, or interested in modern music composition, or anyone who simply enjoys sweet ambient music should welcome Sala Santa Cecilia as a herald of what is to come. This is brilliant music from brilliant talents... towards a more brilliant world. |
| Prezzo: € 9,90 offerta! |
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artista : 4G | |
| titolo : Cloud | ||
| etichetta : Erstwhile | ||
| formato : 2xCD | ||
| packaging : jewelcase | ||
| cod. nr. erstwhile046-2 | ||
| 2005 | |
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The four gentlemen of the guitar are:
Keith Rowe guitar, electronics Oren Ambarchi guitar, electronics Christian Fennesz guitar, computer Toshimaru Nakamura no-input mixing board Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Christian Fennesz and Toshimaru Nakamura are four of the most prominent and influential musicians in experimental music today, each with extensive discographies and distinctive styles. In mid-2004, they formed the Four Gentlemen of the Guitar (4g), and played a series of shows in Europe and Canada, three of which are contained on cloud. The underlying concept of 4g is to unite four artists who each began their musical explorations as guitarists, keeping that mindset as a crucial underpinning of their work as they've each explored increasingly abstract territory, both with and without guitars. Rowe's history has been well documented at this point. Having mostly performed within AMM until the late 90's, he's since been involved in a wide range of projects, including a slew of the most prominent Erstwhile releases. He's the cornerstone musician for the label, and the 4g grouping was his idea. Ambarchi is making his Erstwhile debut (except for the 7 guitar disc in the AMPLIFY 2002 box set). Born in Sydney in 1969, he has been performing live since 1986. His recent work as a solo artist on Touch is very well known and respected, and he's been working with Rowe in various small groupings since 2000. Ambarchi is also co-organiser of the What Is Music? Festival, Australia's premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. Fennesz, known to a wider audience for his studio-constructed records like Endless Summer and Venice, is also a superb collaborative improviser, as documented on projects like FennO'Berg (w/ Jim O'Rourke and Pita), Wrapped Islands (w/ Polwechsel), Live at the LU (w/ Rowe), and ErstLive 004 (w/ Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, and Peter Rehberg). Since 1998, Nakamura has been exploring the possibilities of his "no-input mixing board" in contexts ranging from solo to collaborations with Rowe, Günter Müller, Sachiko M, Andrea Neumann, John Butcher and Sean Meehan. Nakamura was a prominent presence throughout the AMPLIFY 2002 box set, appearing on five of the seven CDs, an integral part of the Good Morning Good Night and ErstLive 005 releases, and will be releasing the much-anticipated follow up to the highly acclaimed Weather Sky CD with Rowe in early 2006. There have been two larger group releases featuring three of these four musicians, Afternoon Tea (Ritornell) has Rowe, Ambarchi and Fennesz, and the 7 guitar disc on the AMPLIFY 2002 box has Rowe, Ambarchi and Nakamura, but the 4g project is the first time all four have performed together. cloud contains three performances (from Vand'ouevre, Paris and Victoriaville) from their seven city tour in May/June 2004, totalling over two hours of music. The widely differing aesthetics of the four musicians meld fluidly, forming hovering, delicate masses of sound. The packaging meshes Rowe's striking cover painting with Friederike Paetzold's eyecatching design. || THE FOUR GENTLEMEN OF THE GUITAR || At the centre of this project is the guitar, perhaps the world's most ubiquitous instrument. Here we are looking at its extended possibilities - that is to say rather than summing up guitar-ness in a Picasso-like way, we would be more interested in Mondrianesque extensions. Christian and Toshi, although both guitar players, have performed in public mostly on instruments that have become physical and musical extensions of the guitar. In my case, along with Oren, we preserved the basic form of the guitar, obviously exploring its "non-guitarlike" possibilities, but always maintaining its essential "guitar-ness". How might a Japanese, an Australian, an Austrian and an Englishman with very different musical and artistic personalities explore in real-time the world's most global instrument, incorporating boomerang loop stations, digital effects, mixing boards, computers etc.? The quartet form "at first was a medium that allowed four gentlemen amateurs to converse musically"*, and from Haydn's time became the appropriate medium that produced music of the deepest personal expression and contemplative profundity. So here we have four gentlemen, the guitar, a conversation between the analog and the digital, the north and the south. [Keith Rowe] * "the string quartet" a history, Paul Griffiths |
| Prezzo: € 16,80 offerta! |
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artista : Vainio Fennesz Vainio | |
| titolo : Invisible Architecture #2 | ||
| etichetta : Audiosphere | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : custodia di plastica - jewelcase | ||
| cod. nr. as02 | ||
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Mika Vainio is one of the 2 heads of Pan Sonic -- active as performer, solo or in short collaboration. He is also involved in installations and performances at Museums and Galeries. Pan Sonic have remained, over recent years, as one the most interesting electronic bands, alongside artists such as Autechre and Oval. Christian Fennesz began as guitarist and became one of the most brilliant improvisers with a powerbook. He is highly appreciated by artists such as Jim O'Rourke, and has developed a great science of the de-structured sound. His last CD on Mego Endless Summer was highly acclaimed. The recording contains two unpublished works from the Brussels 2000 sessions (30 minutes by Vainio alone + 30 minutes of Vainio & Fennesz). Highly abstract and obsessive (in total: 66 minutes). |
| Prezzo: € 15,00 |
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artista : Fennesz - Gert-Jan Prins - Peter Van Bergen | |
| titolo : Dawn | ||
| etichetta : Grob | ||
| formato : CD | ||
| packaging : bustina di cartone - cardboard sleeve | ||
| cod. nr. grob427 | ||
| 2002 | |
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Dawn is a classical improvisation record, everything but post modern. It was recorded at the legendary Total Music Meeting of Free Music Production in November 2000. Dawn is a composition played off the cuff of nearly 42 minutes. All the highs and lows of a longer composition are on this recording: searching and finding, restrained groping and violent erupting.... The decisive factor, however, is that this music is played by people who have nothing or very little to do with this attitude, by Gert-Jan Prins (see his solo record Prins Live, GROB210), by the saxophone player and composer Peter van Bergen (Ensemble LOOS but also projects with Georg Graewe or Wolfgang Fuchs) and by Christian Fennesz, one of the superstars of the electronica jet set (see his current MEGO CD Endless Summer; he can also be heard on the GROB CD (also on Mimeo-Electric Chair + Table). Via their strictly "electronic thinking" (one hears a saxophone, of course, but the appearance deceives), these musicians break away from the approach on musical material developed within free improvisation in the last 40 years. On the other hand, this thinking does not lead to a "clicks 'n' cuts" aesthetic, but rather to a musical process that has been worked hard for, provisional, not completed, but gripping at every moment: what will happen next? What is coming? What breaks off and grows anew afterwards? Hybrid music. |
| Prezzo: € 9,90 offerta! |
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