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Music: Electronic Fennesz / Sakamoto

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Of all of the musicians inspired by Kevin Shield's attempts to decentralize guitar sound, no one has chased the gliding muse more expertly than Austrian composer Christian Fennesz. It takes an impressionist of the utmost sensitivity to evoke the expanses of Brian Wilson and Sonic Youth in the context of electronic music. Fennesz touches down at the River to River festival today for a special performance of Cendre, a collaboration with Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. In the piece, Sakamoto's fragmentary piano interludes are digitally mapped and volleyed by Fennesz's laptop-guitar tandem in a uniquely bifocal approach.

 

– Max Goldberg

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