Pitchfork Forkcast: New Music: Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto: "Trace" [Stream]

New Music: Christian Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto: "Trace" [Stream]

Here Ryuichi Sakamoto plays an evocative nocturne on acoustic piano while Christian Fennesz bathes him in soft digital rain. In terms of noir-ish mood, this particular combination can't miss, as the Japanese renaissance man and elder statesman of experimental music is so well versed on what to leave in and what to leave out. The spaces between the notes is what Fennesz plays along with, and he conjures a static-ridden treatment that would have sounded noisy 27 years ago, when Eno was engaged in broadly similar experiments with pianist Harold Budd. Here in the post-glitch era, however, his bed of sound soothes and placates with its subtle crackles.

[from Cendre; due 05/15/07 on Touch]

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