Knoxville
by Fennesz / Daniell / Buck
Added 2011-12-08 07:41:00Z
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Avg rating: 7.0 | 278 plays | Experimental
A recording made on February 7th 2009 at Knoxville, Tennessee's Big Ears Festival, this wonderful live disc charts the first meeting of experimental guitar maestros Christian Fennesz and David Daniell, with Tony Buck - drummer in The Necks. A highly tuneful and perhaps surprisingly natural sounding piece, this four-part performance might come as a surprise to anyone expecting something along similar lines to other Fennesz collaborations such as the improv-based trio, Fenn O'Berg. Seldom will you have heard Fennesz's guitar so stripped of its usual laptop-sculpted accoutrements. In fact, early on both guitars link up beautifully, embracing a heavy coating of effects, yet without obscuring the instruments' innate tonal properties. Daniell in particular manages to carve out some exquisite melodic structures that seem to guide the set.
During opening piece 'Unüberwindbare Wände' Fennesz follows suit, rumbling through warm and fuzzy chord dissections, and it's only as this half-hour album progresses that you notice the Austrian turning his attention towards more electronic sounds. Certainly by third piece, 'Antonia', you start to hear those familiar, static-glazed guitar tones rolling out, but collectively, this trio always manage to sound synergetic and flexible. Tony Buck is the performer who's likely to be most at-home in this improvising format, and he certainly proves to be the lynchpin figure on these recordings; it's the lively percussive context he offers that most firmly imposes a structure on proceedings. Texture proves every bit as important as rhythm, however, and Buck's fluttering use of cymbals makes for a vibrantly sonorous counterfoil to Daniell and Fennesz's arcing, loosely intertwining guitar lines.
During opening piece 'Unüberwindbare Wände' Fennesz follows suit, rumbling through warm and fuzzy chord dissections, and it's only as this half-hour album progresses that you notice the Austrian turning his attention towards more electronic sounds. Certainly by third piece, 'Antonia', you start to hear those familiar, static-glazed guitar tones rolling out, but collectively, this trio always manage to sound synergetic and flexible. Tony Buck is the performer who's likely to be most at-home in this improvising format, and he certainly proves to be the lynchpin figure on these recordings; it's the lively percussive context he offers that most firmly imposes a structure on proceedings. Texture proves every bit as important as rhythm, however, and Buck's fluttering use of cymbals makes for a vibrantly sonorous counterfoil to Daniell and Fennesz's arcing, loosely intertwining guitar lines.
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