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Thanks, fellas!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:06 (twenty years ago) link

Garfield in Venice -- now that's what I call lasagna!

http://www.garfieldmovie.com/home.html

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

I'd say you should wait for that duo alb with keith rowe on erstwhile scott.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

i wanna buy a fennesz album too, is it cool if i go with this new one?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:40 (twenty years ago) link

yes! it's great. i bought it last week.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

his early stuff is not that noisy, in fact his debut solo record ("Instrument") is really melodic and guitar-ry.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

I think i might just buy something old and something new. Maybe endless summer and the new one. i keep hearing great stuff about these records. the only thing i have him on is that Ulver remix album that i love. i've been purging my cd collection and hitting the store more often. spring cleaning you know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

i say:

fennesz plays (2 song single of "covers") is a great and cheap intro.

endless summer is his strongest LP

field recordings is a GREAT compilation that has some of his strongest material ("good man")

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

i just got the new one, it was the only one at the record store!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

Hotel Paral.lel needs more love on this thread.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

one of my favorite songs off hotel paral.lel is "aus" but i don't listen to the album much anymore.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link

There is a noise during a part of a tune on Venice that hits me right in the back of my throat and causes it to itch if I am sitting in the right place between the speakers. It is unquestionably the strangest effect music has ever had on me.

Unfortunately, this sensation dominated my recollection of the record & I don't remember if I liked it or not.

― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago) link

holy, david sylvian's voice just came on and i almost jumped out of my seat!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link

i like his voice on this album but maybe it should be a little lower in the mix

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 8 April 2004 04:44 (twenty years ago) link

you're telling me! i was sitting around listening to the album late at night and it really scared the willies outta me.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

The drama of his voice appearing -- I didn't know about his cameo at all until I too was taken by surprise! -- is one of the best things about Venice. It's shocking and beautiful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

totally! (and scary)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't know it was coming either Ned, and found it heavy and intrusive after all that gorgeous music. Excellent album though.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 08:01 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

i have been listening to venice (my first fennesz cd) a lot yesterday and today. somehow it really makes me think of wagner. quite heavy and wafting like the fog on a lake in the alps in autumn. that is not per se bad but a little bit frightening, i find. and david sylvian of course fits perfectly into this picture. his drawling is so artificial and unnatural. as is fennesz laptop music. which isn't bad per se neither. it does marry glitch noise and melodic beauty quite amazingly. i can understand that it takes him years to make a new album.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 15 May 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

listening to it for the first real time (ie. not at night while in bed) right now, and I don't see why some don't like it. It's very good. Also, I feel kinda sorry for anyone who missed him with Keith Rowe at Tonic last night who wanted to go. It was fucking awesome, but ridiculously packed - the line to get in was the biggest I've seen there (and almost stretched to Delancey!).

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

i listened to it again last night while i was doing some work, actually in circumstances not unlike ha stencil's (ie i wasn't in bed or dozing off), and yeah i was really feeling it too. the singing still scared the shit out of me though!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

He also played with Rowe at a festival in Quebec over the weekend (as well as a separate solo set), but no other Canadian dates (to my knowledge). Bastards.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link

yeah he played a couple of gigs at victo. my friend who also performed said he was a real prick

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

I missed him a month ago here in Prague, playing with Jelinek...

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:39 (twenty years ago) link

hstencil, I envy your having seen the show last night; I procrastinated endlessly on picking up a ticket and thought about just heading over and taking my chances but figured I'd get shut out. Anyway, what's his live setup like? Most of the pictures I've seen suggest that his performance is solidly PowerBook-based; were there any real-time guitarisms on display? I'm of two minds about whether seeing him with a guitar would heighten the defamiliarization effects of the records or just lift the veil a tad too high.

Has Fennesz ever been on a bill with Kevin Drumm? I find these guys an interesting study in microcontrasts and seeing them in the same room would be interesting.

― rasheed wallace, Friday, 28 May 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

yeah he played guitar, which was interesting because I've seen him two other times and he didn't do that. In addition to the powerbook he's also got this big, custom-made distortion box that sounds pretty great. (I saw all this from far away - fortunately I'm not nerdy enough to go up on stage and check out equipment after sets LIKE MANY OF THE NERDS IN ATTENDANCE LAST NIGHT.) Sets by all were great, but Fennesz's solo in particular struck me by how "techno" it was (in a non-obvious way). My head was bobbing/body felt like dancing at numerous points in the set (and it's a testament to the overall lameness of the Tonic crowd that there were few having the same response). Hell at one point for about 20 seconds it sounded like he was going to segue into a gabba track!

To my knowledge, Fennesz and Kevin have never played together in the States (not that I can remember anyway), but I would be surprised if they haven't played on bills together in Europe. Kevin's recent semi-retirement is kind of a bummer.

Also, Sylvain track just came on, and the haters are nuts! This is great!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

great and scary

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link

not as scary as "Farmer in the City" but still good.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

which btw slocki do you have much Scott Walker, esp. later stuff? If you don't, you should, I think you'd like it a lot.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks stence. Agreed about the Sylvain track; in many ways it jibes with his somewhat cinematic tendencies -- hearing a voice come in late in the wash of the album is not unlike being jolted by a jarring image or plot twist in Godard or Hitchcock. And then you're sort of placidly returned into the flow of things. As album sequencing I think it's pretty damn brilliant.

― rasheed wallace, Friday, 28 May 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago) link

i have like NO scott walker, it is a big hole in my music! i am wildly open to recommendations though!

also rasheed otm

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago) link

Still good indeed. Did I link my review in the Seattle Weekly, I can't remember. Probably my album of the year at this point based on how often I've listened to it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

link away monsignor ned

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

i'm really looking forward to hearing this on the airplane next week

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

Huzzah, but I should note the vast superiority of our own Strongo's ReMarc review right before it. And a very good album that is too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

Slocki based on the Sylvain track alone you need Walker's Tilt and Climate of Hunter. Buy them immediately.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

sir yes sir!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

Has Fennesz ever been on a bill with Kevin Drumm? I find these guys an interesting study in microcontrasts and seeing them in the same room would be interesting.

ATP LA 2002 had Pita and Kevin Drumm but not Fennesz.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

both solo sets made me forget the dense/intense packing of Tonic. wonderful gushing rushes and peaking plateaus by both gentlemen.
I'm still not sold on the duo though, and last night's low rattle didn't exactly send me running back to the Erst disc.

― jean jeudi, Friday, 28 May 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

I like the disc better than their set last night, yeah, although the latter did have some okay spots. Mostly surprised at how quiet it was.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

i couldn't get into the disc at all. after such solo dynamic sets (not only in loudness, but in shape and movement), they seemed way too stolid and unengaging. i thought the set (unf.) reflected the same hesitancy of the disc. l
ary 7's set-up downstairs killed me though.

― jean jeudi, Friday, 28 May 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

also I hope you weren't one of those equipment NERDS!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

didn't see the downstairs stuff but I could sure hear it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

kevin's semi-retirement?

click here!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

dude gygax! that might be the only shows he's played all year! he went back to his day job!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

(in Ogre voice) NERRRRRRDS!
lary's set-up would make techs projectile vomit.
imagine the stuffed animal tower at 6th and B (at least in the spirit of).
there was also an enormous amplified piece of sheet metal with a toothbrush and about six other things dangling off it. a tricked out record player where you could wingnut the record down and really let 'er rip at 78+. xmas lights galore and lots of whirlybird speakers too. lary himself jerry-rigging it all so that it can 'work' seals the deal.

― jean jeudi, Friday, 28 May 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

(in Ogre voice) NERRRRRRDS!

that's what Mio and I yelled last night towards the stage after Fennesz's set, actually.

damn wish I went downstairs now.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

Strap all lary's stuff on a bike and .... look out

― rasheed wallace, Friday, 28 May 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

gygax! why do you think Kevin didn't play No Fun?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link

jock itch

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

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