Christian Fennesz

Fennesz, actually, Christian Fennesz ( born December 25, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musician, he lives alternately in Vienna and Paris.

Life

Originally a guitarist, among others, in the popular in the 1980s indie band mash, he started in the mid 1990s to make as a soloist laptop-based electronic music. Long closely associated with the Viennese label Mego, him 2001, the breakthrough came with the album Endless Summer, after which he joined the British label Touch. A typical characteristic of his style are based on e- guitar sound samples. His music can be assigned to the Clicks & Cuts loose genre.

Fennesz regularly works in co-operation, together with Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke, he forms the trio Fenn O'Berg, with Zeitblom together the duo Golden Tone and Christof short man formation Orchestra 33 1/3 and other, mostly short-lived collaborations. Among other things, Fennesz works both in the studio and live together with Ryuichi Sakamoto. David Sylvian sang on Fennesz ' album Venice and interpreted on his album Blemish the Fennesz - piece "A Fire in the Forest". Regularly Fennesz composed music for ballets, installations and films.

Discography

Publications

  • Hotel Paral.lel (1997)
  • Plus Forty Seven Degrees 56 ' 37 "Minus Sixteen Degrees 51' 08" (2000)
  • Endless Summer (2001)
  • Field Recordings: 1995-2002 (2002) ( Compilation of B -sides, rarities, and out of print "instrument" -EP)
  • Venice (2004)
  • Black Sea (Touch, 2008)
  • Szampler ( Tapeworm, 2010)

EPs

  • 5/6 (1995)
  • Instrument ( 1995), was re- released in 2002 on Field Recordings
  • Il Libro Mio (1998)
  • Plays ( 1999)

Movie Soundtracks

  • Beyond the Ocean (USA, 1999)
  • Tradition is the passing of the fire and not the worship of ashes (Austria, 1999)
  • Yellow Cherries (Austria, 2000)
  • Film .7 -12, with Werner Dafeldecker, Martin Siewert, Burkhard Stangl (Austria, 2001)
  • Blue Moon (Austria, 2002)
  • World Mirror Cinema, Burkhard Stangl with Jean -Paul Dessy (Austria, 2005)
  • No Island - The Palmers Kidnapping 1977 with bjnilsen (Austria, 2006)
  • Film. a girl & gun, with Lucia Pulido, Martin Siewert, Burkhard Stangl ( 7inch, Interstellar Records, Austria 2009 )

Live albums

  • Live in Japan (2003)

With mash

  • In Gold (1990 )
  • Brand ( 1992)

With Fenn O'Berg

  • The Magic Sound of Fenn O'Berg (1999)
  • The Return of Fenn O'Berg (2002)

With Orchestra 33 1/3

  • Orchestra 33 1/3 (1997)

With Ryuichi Sakamoto

  • Sala Santa Cecilia live EP with Ryuichi Sakamoto (Touch, 2005)
  • Cendré with Ryuichi Sakamoto (Touch, 2007)
  • Flumina with Ryuichi Sakamoto (Touch, 2011)

With Stefan Goldmann

  • Remiksz with Stefan Goldmann ( Tapeworm, 2010)
Mego (label) Endless Summer (Christian Fennesz album) Blue Moon (2002 film) Discogs Integrated Authority File
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