This is Fennesz\u2019s most reflective album to date. Composed and recorded at the end of 2023 and completed in the summer of 2024. Fennesz set up a new studio space, the third one in four years. He had no immediate concept, this time starting from scratch, with a strict working routine. He got up early in the morning, worked until midday then had a break and worked again until evening. At first, just collecting ideas, experimenting, improvising. Then composing, mixing and correcting. Yet the title came early, \u2018Mosaic\u2019, which mirrored this process of putting an element into place one at a time to build the full picture, an ancient technique of making an image, before pixels did it in a flash.<\/p>\n
This \u20189 to 5\u2032 working routine had already been developed on \u2018Agora\u2019 [Touch 2019]. All the other albums before were done differently; a few weeks work, then months in between and another few days or weeks of work. \u2018Mosaic\u2019 was done from beginning to end without a break.<\/p>\n
Packaged in the now familiar DVD-style case with artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft, there is an echo to \u2018Venice\u2019 but 20 years later the division between the land, the horizon and the deep blue sea is more extreme.<\/p>\n
Fennesz experiments with unusual time signatures. It\u2019s not obvious, but \u2018Love and the Framed Insects\u2019 is in 7\/4. \u2018Personare\u2019 is somehow influenced by West African pop music from the 1980s. \u2018Goniorizon\u2019 originally consisted of six hard rock guitar riffs mixed on top of one another. Then it became this \u2018thing\u2019 that somehow opened possibilities for new things to come\u2026 all this adds up to a filmic, highly involving and beautiful score of diverse influences and multiple possibilities to be explored by the listener.<\/p>\n
Recorded by Christian Fennesz at Seven Fountains\/Vienna between January and May 2024
\nMastered by Denis Blackham
\nPhotography & design by Jon Wozencroft
\nPublished by Touch Music\/Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd<\/p>\n
Touch<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Touch<\/strong><\/p>\n The last time Fennesz released an album on Austrian label Mego it was 2001 and the name of that release was ‘Endless Summer’. Now, in 2014 Editions Mego is extremely proud to release the conceptual follow up that landmark of abstract pop. B\u00e9cs (pronounced ‘baeetch’) is Hungarian for Vienna and is the first full length Fennesz solo release since 2008’s ‘Black Sea’.<\/p>\n A singular work by a singular artist.<\/p>\n
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