Black Sea

Christian Fennesz's lush and luminant electronic compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. Guitars that rarely sound like guitars; the instrument is transformed into an orchestra, a shimmering, swirling sound of enormous range and complex musicality. These 'songs' embody the skilful application and manipulation of dense sonic textures with a genuine feel for the live, and real-time. Featuring duets with New Zealand's Rosy Parlane and the prepared piano of Melbourne composer Anthony Pateras, Black Sea pushes his work into a more classical and ambient domain, preferring a slow reveal of transcendent digital eruptions to the more song-based structure of Venice or Endless Summer.