Fennesz, Jeck & Matthews
Amoroso
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.date 2008
.style Ambient
.label Touch
.cat.no. TS 01
.source Vinyl
.type Single
.quality VBRkbps 44.1hz Joint-Stereo
.size 10,2 MB
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A third magical instalment in the Touch label's 7" series, Amoroso pays
homage to the so-called 'sacred minimalism' of Arvo Part, and features a
trio of collaborators: Touch mainstays Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck
are joined by renowned organist Charles Matthews, a performer who first
contributed to the Touch label via the Spire project. On the A-side
'Christian Fennesz plays Charles Matthews', and does so in an extremely
beautiful, harmonious fashion, treating the original organ recording
with reverence befitting its setting (York Minster no less). You can
barely detect Fennesz's guiding hand until a surge of granular eruptions
flood into the music halfway through the side, lifting the organ from
the fixture of the corporeal realm, and into subtly more esoteric
surrounds, a process we're used to hearing Fennesz's guitar undergoing.
It's really a thing of quite immense beauty. On the B-side, Jeck is less
delicate with Matthews' performance, colouring it with grit and flecks
of coarse analogue noise. Importantly you can still make out the
intervals being played, but the experience is a far more bracing
engagement with the timbres of the organ, which are here reconditioned
to instil a certain amount of divine terror - this is probably the sort
of fiery, visionary retake on sacred music William Blake would approve
of. Sublime stuff, and another essential purchase from Touch.
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01 Christian Fennesz - Plays Charles Matthews 03:29
02 Philip Jeck - Plays Charles Matthews 03:32
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07:01 min
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