Fennesz - Agora (Japanese Edition) (2019)
Fennesz - Agora (Japanese Edition) (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | 00:53:52
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Touch Records, P-Vine Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 317 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 124 Mb | 00:53:52
Experimental Electronic, Ambient | Label: Touch Records, P-Vine Records
Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo album since ‘Mahler Remixed’ [Touch, 2014] and ‘Bécs’ [Editions Mego, 2014]. Fennesz writes: “Its a simple story. i had temporarily lost a proper studio workspace and had to move all my gear back to a small bedroom in my flat where I recorded this album. It was all done on headphones, which was rather a frustrating situation at first but later on it felt like back in the day when I produced my first records in the 1990s. In the end it was inspiring. I used very minimal equipment; I didn’t even have the courage to plug in all the gear and instruments which were at my disposal. I just used what was to hand.”Tracklist:
Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. “Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language.” – (City Newspaper, USA). His lush and luminant compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. They resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece. He lives and works in Vienna.
Pitchfork (USA)
Using computers to turn sounds into alien shapes now feels like a given, but at the turn of the century, guitarist and producer Christian Fennesz’s audacious noise- and pop-smearing work suggested strange, glitchy new worlds. Two decades on, the Austrian ambient artist suddenly found himself without a studio space, so he resorted to doing what so many teens do, jamming away in his bedroom on headphones. But even in such homely environs, he operates like an old master, patiently layering guitars and electronics one downstroke at a time until it all accrues into a vast canvas of distorted bliss. Agora boasts both the most expansive and most finely detailed soundscapes of his career. Contemplative and visceral, blurred and acute, the album upholds Fennesz as the 21st century’s finest romantic futurist. [Andy Beta]
Pop Matters (USA)
Christian Fennesz is an ambient musician who jerks tears the way the best pop songwriters do: through striking chord changes and melodies and harmonies rather than the imagistic textures that often carry much of the load in ambient. His new record, Agora, made on compromised equipment following the loss of his studio, takes this to the extreme. Stripped-down, occasionally tinny and trebly, more clearly made with guitar than warped earlier works like Black Sea and Venice, Agora relies on composition more than anything else for its wallop, and at its best — the dying moments of “We Trigger the Sun,” the ’80s-spangled second half of “Rainfall” — it packs the same punch as some of the Beach Boys’ masterpieces he endlessly references.
These four tracks crackle with electricity and have a real sense of weight and power, but they don’t dream of being heavy metal like so many ambient albums on the noisier spectrum do. Rather, everything seems heard through a wall of thunderclouds, or perhaps the walls of his lonely bedroom. Is it any wonder one of these tracks is called “In My Room”? [Daniel Bromfield]
1. In My Room (12:28)
2. Rainfall (11:58)
3. Agora (12:09)
4. We Trigger The Sun (10:29)
5. Domicile (06:38)
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Fennesz / Agora
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EAC extraction logfile from 23. June 2020, 18:25
Fennesz / Agora
Used drive : PLDS DVD+-RW DH-16ABS Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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