Fennesz / Sakamoto

Sala Santa Cecilia

Label: Touch Country: UK

"This release features a laptop duet between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto at the start of their performance at Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome on 28th November 2004 - an introduction to a new collaboration between two highly regarded composers.

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Award-winning composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has made a career of crossing musical and technological boundaries. Sakamoto has experimented with, and excelled in, many different musical styles, making a name for himself in popular, orchestral and film music. Never one to be satisfied with the status quo, Sakamoto continues to push the envelope of his artistry, marrying genres, styles and technologies for the first time to create new and exciting directions in musical expression.

Christian 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."-Touch