05 Fennesz - Circassian [Touch]

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Album: Venice [ALBUM]
Track: 5 of 12
Title: Circassian
Artist: Fennesz
Label: Touch
Cat#: TO53
Formats: CD
Digital Release: 26th April 2004
Physical Release: 26th April 2004

About This Release:

- Fennesz burst upon the scene with 'Instrument' [Mego, 1995], applauded by The Wire for his: 'takes some skillful manipulation to simultaneously tug those heartstrings and poke them with tiny pins' [Nick Phillips, City Pages, USA]

- Fourth studio album by Christain Fennesz, following the successful 'Endless Summer' [Mego, 2001], which sold over 20,000 copies.

- His most accessible works to date, this marks the crossroads between electronic music? early status as digital subculture and it's emotional quality towards melody and rapture.

- Artwork & Photography by Jon Wozencroft [6 panel digipak]
- Collaboration with David Sylvian [Mego] on 'Transit''

Reviews for This Release:

"?seems to drift as you are going into yourself in a state of dreamworld and somewhat melancholy and then rises to somethines-spectacular explosions of hectic organ droned electronic noises." - Eleanor Jones (Rant)

"There's a certain dark quality to it, yet beautiful and mesmerising , it's one to close your eyes to and picture beautiful landscapes." - Eleanor Jones (Rant)

"Manipulates blizzards of statick drone for meditative, occasionally rockish ends, fragments of melody threaded through the abstraction. It's also hymanely crafted with a warmth unsusual in the avant-garde." - Uncut

"...unique technique and production alue, which many are trying to copy" - Wire

""THE REST OF THE BEST No.1"

11. FENNESZ Venice (Touch)" - Themilkfactory.co.uk

"LIVE REVIEW OF CORNET GIG
"...Next to test the Coronet?s fabulous soundsystem is Fennesz who apparently takes a second of My Bloody Valentine and extends it over half an hour with the aid of extensive diamond-hard abrasively digital distortion. Although painfully loud within the speaker-surrounded main floor, there?s something ineffably soothing about having your cochlea pierced in this manner".
http://www.playlouder.com/feature/+fourtetetc/" - http://www.playlouder.com

""Though Venice offers the intrigue of ?experimental? music, it is also melodic and easily digestible - it isn?t lazily provocative, difficult or abrasive but utterly lovely." ***"" - Dave Hemingway (Record Collector)

""Ambient hasn?t had much of a profile since the early Nineties, when Aphex Twin was soldering together his homemade gear and making electronica without repetitive beats was a political act. Now we have ?intelligent dance music? (aka ?glitch? etc), an umbrella term for digital composition that shuns the straitjacket of song in favour of crackle and fizzes that, in the right hands, become emotive soundscapes. Few have abler hands than Christian Fennesz, whose latest album takes up where 2001?s Endless Summer left off. His warm drones, ebbing analogues and dysfunctional digitals recall the sublime bliss-outs of My Bloody Valentine as much as they suggest ghosts in the modern machine. It?s deeply lovely; and for variety, David Sylvian sings on one track, returning the production favour Fennesz did for him on his last record"" -
Kitty Empire (The Observer)

""Venice layers great plains of sound in a manner that?s likely to cause poetic ramblings in reviews with far higher word limits... unavoidable."" - Buzz

""Gorgeous digital etherealism from Vienna"" - Uncut Magazine