Instrument
So the best new record, elctronic-ish or not, that I’ve heard lately is actually filled with material that’s as much as 7 years old. It’s this rareities compilation from Christian Fennesz, Field Recordings 1995-2002. I remember being dimly aware of Fennesz’s Hotel Paral.lel back when it came out, but I haven’t had a chance to hear any of his music until now. The thing that really makes this collection worthwhile, for me, is the inclusion of the entire “Instrument” EP, which was actually his first. It sounds to me a lot like if Oval were to do the Ovalprocess thing, but starting with the spooky distant feedback drone portions from Sonic Youth or Velvet Underground records. It’s nice and somehow humanizing to know that the rich tones he’s feeding his computer are coming from his own guitar. And the results are strange and wonderful. What I really like is getting that jittery post-techno thrill, but without the creepy sense of dislocated paranoia that comes off of, say, Autechre’s latest. It’s just gorgeous. I burned a CD with just the four Instrument tracks, and I’ve had it in my walkman all day. I haven’t been this excited about some new music in a looonng time. I actually just scored some live Tortoise bootleg tracks (which, don’t get me wrong, are cool as hell) but found them hard to want to listen to, when I could be using that time to spin Fennesz again. So GOOD!
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