WARM WAVES IN WINTER

The music of Christian Fennesz is encompassing. It wraps you up in a blanket of noise, but listen close- its not just noise, there's a real song in there. Fennesz is able to blur the distinction between digital and analog, as he alternates between laptops, oscillators and guitars. He's able to draw a warmth from electronics that few can accomplish. This is the sound of surfing, and of caves, of weather fronts colliding. But Fennesz is no aloof new ager. He's covered songs by the beach boys and the stones. And his collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto have doused the classical piano in a bucket of digital snow. Tuck into one of his full albums for a healthy dose of audio bliss.

FENNESZ - "Circassian" from album VENICE



FENNESZ SAKAMOTO - "Oto" from album CENDRE