Fennesz

John

He's come up a few times in this forum but not in a little while. Has anyone heard his new one, Black Sea, on Touch? Similar to Venice but not a carbon copy, good stuff. I'm currently listening to another recent one of his with Werner Dafeldecker and Martin Brandlmayr called Till The Old World's Blown Up And A New One Is Created which is far calmer than the title would suggest. Quite different from Fennesz solo but just as good.

Setun

I have Venice, and I've enjoyed it, but haven't fully become accustomed to it yet.
Filles de Kilimanjaro by Miles Davis is keeping me away from a re-listen at the moment :cool:

JohnGl

Very good album, I've given it a lot of spins recently.

Scubadevils

Yeah this is on my list of CD's to buy. Trying to curtail spending on music though, it had got stupidly out of hand.

John

I know that feeling, although usually I'm quietly impressed with how many pages of music purchases I find on my credit card bill

I do recommend you check out Black Sea sooner rather than later, it's a great album.

Scubadevils

I tend to be impressed too by all the music transactions on my statement, my wife on the other hand... :pac:

I still haven't got 'Endless Summer' actually, that too has been in my discogs want-list for a while.

On the subject of buying too much music, I was actually somewhat disciplined over the last couple of weeks and got to know some CD's I bought during last year a LOT better - some I had dismissed as being ok have now become gems in my collection. A lot to be said for taking a break to get to know what you already have! I find a lot of the time I can't keep up with what I buy so after these last couple of weeks I really am going to keep it under control. Well, except for the 3 I ordered yesterday on Amazon which I just had to have

Ghost Rider

"Endless Summer" is lovely. His "Field Recordings" compilation is mostly really good too. Haven't heard the most recent one you named, John.

Are any of you folks familiar with Tim Hecker? He ploughs a similar furrow to Fennesz, though the overall sound is less guitar-saturated and more formally abstract. (Some of Fennesz's stuff is held back a bit by his predilection for relatively familiar chord sequences, in my opinion.) I recommend Hecker's albums "Radio Amor" (Mille Plateaux) and "Harmony In Ultraviolet" (Kranky).

JohnGl

Yeah Tim Hecker is great, definite +1 on Harmony In Ultraviolet. Radio Amor is on my list of albums to get soon.

Anima

+1 for Tim Hecker, hes great.

Ghost Rider

If I had to choose, I think "Radio Amor" is my favourite of the two. It has a very focussed sound palette and mood, even though it's quite singular in its overall sound.

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Yeah Tim Hecker is great, definite +1 on Harmony In Ultraviolet. Radio Amor is on my list of albums to get soon.

John

I've only got Ultraviolet in Harmony and it's fantastic. You're right, he is working on a similar spectrum to Fennesz. According to the Kranky site, there's a new Hecker album out in March.

jiminynuggets

Check out Oren Ambarchi if you like a bit of Fennesz and Hecker. Been really enjoying his stuff lately, esp. 'Grapes From The Estate', Pan American 'For Waiting, For Chasing' is worth a listen also.

John

Ooh, what's this? Ooh, shiny!