There s so much depth and subtlety to this album and it s simply breathtaking how fennesz manages to coax layer after layer of texture from a relatively simple array of equipment.
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I think they didn t have to trim the album down by two songs for the vinyl version both sides would total around 25 minutes each if done right without rearraging the songs.
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Fennesz is contemporary electronic music of the highest calibre.
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Acoustic and electric guitars synthesizers.
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The instrument is transformed into an orchestra.
There is frequent use of controlled time smearing which utterly disassembles original sound sources but avoids a regimented feel.
Fennesz does with sound what stan brakhage did with film altering its very fabric and texture.
Black sea features guitars that rarely sound like guitars.
Songs usually consist of skillfull application and manipulation of dense sonic textures with a genuine feel of the live real time.
Christian fennesz is a prolific vienna based composer who has been crafting electronic multi layered laptop compositions with an aid of his guitar since the late 90s.
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There are beautiful fragments that punctuate the title track black sea but the overall flow is meditative slow and subdued.
This sense of progression is underlined by the spine tinglingly wonderful glide a duet with rosy parlane which takes fennesz s wall of sound into the stratosphere sounding like an.
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Importantly though there are no overt attempts to retrace footsteps back to that classic album and black sea sounds vehemently like a step forwards for fennesz.
If you like fennesz output from endless summer and venice black sea is more experimental and less musical than the previous two albums.
Referencing black sea cd album dig rzcm 46113 here comes fennesz with his highly anticipated fourth studio album on touch.