Venice, the fourth studio album by Christain Fennesz, was recorded on location in the summer of 2003 and subsequently assembled and mixed at Amann Studios, Vienna in early 2004. Venice finds electronic music at a crossroads between its early status as digital subculture, and the feeling that there has to be something more -- an emotional quality that rises above noise and moves towards melody and rapture. Fennesz burst upon the scene with "Instrument" [Mego, 1995] and followed up with a succe   [ read more ]

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Mego is proud to announce the release of the long awaited new Christian Fennesz album, "Endless Summer." Much has passed since the 1997 release of "Hotel Paral.lel," his first full-length for Mego. Constantly active in performance, dance, theatre, and film music, Fennesz also has worked on numerous collaborative releases on labels such as Ritornell, Touch, Charhizma, and Synaesthesia and with Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg as Fenn O'Berg. Fennesz's third full-length album further explores the territory mapp   [ read more ]

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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   [ read more ]

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This reissue of Christian Fennesz's breakthrough classic Endless Summer has been remixed, remastered, and re-released with two extra tracks. Originally released in 2001 by Mego, Endless Summer brought his name and music towards the first steps of mainstream recognition with its micro sounds and warm guitar, harkening the dreamy serenity and quick-fading sentimentality of a California sunset. Following on from the more experimental Hotel Paral.lell and the Beach Boys homaged Plays   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. "Field Recordings" brings together a range of material Christian Fennesz has contributed to compilations, special projects, and film soundtracks between the years 1995 and 2002. Also, for the first time on CD, it includes his debut 12" for Mego, the awesome "Instrument," remastered, and a new track recorded specially for this release, "Good Man." It is his first release since "Endless Summer" [Mego, 2001] and a prelude to his next studio album.

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Reissue! A CD reissue of his vinyl single release on Austria's Mego label, and an introduction to his specialized vision of 1960's-styled electronic-pop. Versions of the Stones' "Paint It Black" and the Beach Boys' "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulders)" are covered with loving electronic care, resulting in two tracks of humdinging pop glory.

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VINYL FORMAT. 7" vinyl only -no legal downloads of these tracks are available. These three tracks are based on eight different guitar recordings made at Amann Studios, Vienna, between 2005-2007. The acoustic guitar was recorded with an AKG 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 (TS 002EP).

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VINYL FORMAT. Christian Fennesz is a pioneer. He's responsible for establishing the laptop computer as both a compositional tool and a concert instrument. Subsuming electro-acoustic strategies into a bedrock of pop, he terraforms vast new worlds of sound, within which both AMM and The Beach Boys can cozily co-exist.

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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   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Christian Fennesz lives and works in Paris and Vienna. Plays was originally released as a 7" vinyl by Mego in 1998 and a CD single by Moikai in 1999. It is seen by many as the "turning point" between early Fennesz electronic abstract works such as the Instrument 12" and Hotel Paral.lel CD, and the more guitar-based works such as Endless Summer and Venice. The two tracks, "Paint It Black" and "Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)," were initially released   [ read more ]

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Recorded on the recent MEGO tour in the land down under, this is Christian Fennesz's first live CD (and his second release for Touch). Although it carries a CDR catalogue number, this is not a CDR. It's manufactured at Universal, like all other Touch CDs. The packaging will be the same as the Philip Jeck and S.E.T.I. CDRs, however (i.e., in a white wallet with a black and white sticker). Limited to 1000 copies. Running time is approximately 17 minutes.

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