From Pietro Sent Wed, Oct 13th 1999, 02:09
From Pietro Sent Wed, Oct 13th 1999, 02:09
As clipped from the Dutch East India press-notes:
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FENNESZ
Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56' 37"
Minus Sixteen Degrees 51' 08" cd
8 tracks - 38:03.00 [LAAOCD - Labels and Artists Against Overlong CDs]
Track listing: 010. 011. 012. 013. 014. 015. 016. 017
This is Christian Fennesz' 2nd solo full album after the highly acclaimed
'Hotel Paral.lel' (Mego 16). At the beginning of 1999, he released 'fennesz
PLAYS', a CD/single of radical treatments of Rolling Stones/Beach Boys
classics on Jim O'Rourke's new label, Moikai. Fennesz has also made various
contributions to compilation CDs, including the awesome 'Surf' on 'DECAY'
(Ash International 3.9); with Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg he is a member
of Fennoberg; he also plays with the Laptop Orchestra and Orchestra 33 1/3.
Fennesz was recently honoured with a prize at this years Ars Electronica
festival in Linz, Austria, which he promptly tried to break in disgust at
the festival organizers' bias towards sponsor politics.
<<plus forty seven degrees 56' 37" minus sixteen degrees 51' 08">> was
recorded by Fennesz during July and August this summer, transforming his
back garden into an open air studio, using only guitar and Powerbook. The
tension between source and process has produced a powerful and hypnotic
work, with echoes of My Bloody Valentine's classic "Loveless" album of
1991... Maybe a digital update of textures and fractured rhythms explored
by Brian Eno on "Another Green World".
The first pressing of <<plus forty seven degrees 56' 37" minus sixteen
degrees 51' 08">> is available in a strictly limited slipcase edition. A
lush photographic treatment by Jon Wozencroft contrasts Fennesz's rich
soundscapes with images that attempt to capture the outerworldy atmosphere
of places where man has manipulated 'natural' environments into new forms
and functions.
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