Black Sea

VINYL FORMAT. Black Sea is the much-anticipated new album from Christian Fennesz, his first since Venice (2004). Fennesz's career has come a long way since Instrument, his debut for Mego in 1995, and his first solo album Hotel Paral.lel which followed in 1998. Endless Summer (Mego, 2001) brought him to a much wider audience and Venice underlined his mastery of melody and dissonance.

His songs usually embody the skillful application and manipulation of dense sonic textures with a genuine feel for the live, and real-time. Fennesz pushes his work into a more classical domain, preferring the slow reveal to Venice's and Endless Summer's more song- based structures. Black Sea features guitars that rarely sound like guitars; the instrument is transformed into an orchestra. On "Glide," Fennesz duets with New Zealand's Rosy Parlane, whose work is also released on Touch and also teams up with eMego artist Anthony Pateras whose prepared piano features on "The Colour of Three."