18.03.08: Nanuk of the North
Wednesday, 30. April 2008, 19:30 Vienna Konzerthaus - Grosser Saal
Fennesz / Yoshihide / Reiter / Streichtrio des Klangforum Wien «Nanuk, der Eskimo»
Christian Fennesz, Guitar, Computer
Otomo Yoshihide, Guitar, Turntables
Eva Reiter, Viola da Gamba
Streichtrio des Klangforum Wien, Streichtrio
Programme:
Film «Nanuk, der Eskimo» (Regie: Robert J. Flaherty, USA 1922)
Christian Fennesz
Musik zu «Nanuk, der Eskimo» (Regie: Robert J. Flaherty, USA 1922) (UA)
(Kompositionsauftrag von Wiener Mozartjahr 2006 und der Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft)
11.03.08: Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews | Amoroso | Limited 7"
Touch # TS01
7" vinyl only
Due in the week beginning 18th March 2008
Side a:
Fennesz/Matthews 3' 34"
Side b
Jeck/Matthews 3' 24"
cut by Jason @ Transition
artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft
For more information on this series of Touch Sevens, 7" vinyl only releases, please visit the TouchSevens website
Am`o`ro�so
n. 1. A lover; a man enamored.
adv. 1. (Mus.) In a soft, tender, amatory style.
Charles Matthews plays the Grand Organ in York Minster, during Spire Live on 20th January 2007. This release is a homage to Arvo P�rt...
Arvo P�rt is often identified with the school of minimalism and more specifically, that of "mystic minimalism" or "sacred minimalism". He is considered a pioneer of this style, along with contemporaries Henryk G�recki and John Tavener.
About the players:
Charles Matthews: "I felt you were pure music, not human flesh, music through time, music played from the Universe, without boundaries." [an audience member, July 2007] Born in 1966, Charles Matthews studied at the Royal College of Music, London, and was an organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. His teachers have included Beryl Tichbon, Gwilym Isaac, David Pettit, Patricia Carroll, Nicholas Danby, Charles Spinks and Dr Richard Marlow.
Charles pursues a varied career as pianist, organist, composer and teacher, performing and broadcasting for radio and television within the UK and internationally. He has won numerous awards, perhaps most notably the first prize in the 1999 Franz Liszt Memorial Competition in Budapest. His recordings have been issued by Olympia, Priory, Guild and Touch; he is the organist for the Touch project, Spire, which also includes Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck.
Christian Fennesz: Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. �Imagine the electric guitar severed from clich� 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 and Paris.
Philip Jeck: Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early '80's and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as we as well as his solo concert work. His best kown work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000].
Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes geniunely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick.
18.01.08: Fennesz New Release | "Transition" | Limited 7"
Fennesz
Transition
Touch # TS04
7" vinyl only - no legal downloads of these tracks are available
Side A: On a desolate shore [5:14]
Side B: A shadow passes by [3:21]
It is the sister release to the digital-only On A Desolate Shore A Shadow Passes By. These three tracks are based on 8 different guitar recordings made at Amann Studios, Vienna, between 2005-07. The acoustic guitar was recorded with an AK c12 microphone. Other sounds were made using a Fender Stratocaster and a Vox ac15 amp.
The 7" is part of the Touch Sevens 7" vinyl-only series, which began with Oceanus Pacificus by Chris Watson [TS02].
For further information please go to the Touch Sevens site, or to purchase the limited vinyl visit the TouchShop
Fennesz's new album for Touch follows in Spring 2008
08.12.07: Fennesz New Release | Download Only Track | 11.12.2007
Fennesz - On a desolate shore a shadow passes by
Touch # TS04D
1 track - 8:01
Exclusive digital download available through Boomkat, iTunes and all good download stores
This release will be followed by Transition, a 7" single release in January 2008 featuring 2 different tracks from the same sessions.
21.08.07: Fennesz remixes Nine Inch Nails
More info here
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