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FENNESZ SAKAMOTO - Cendre
| PitchFork | | This piano/electronics duo is an arrangement Ryuichi Sakamoto has been recently exploring in concert, with ultra-minimalist Alva Noto among others, so it seems a natural for his second collaboration with Christian Fennesz. Listening to Cendre after returning again to Sala Saint Cecilia, their EP from 2005, affirms that the two records couldn't be more different. The latter was a single live 19-minute track that found Sakamoto inhabiting the abstract digitalia we've come to associate with Fennesz, directing his diverse talent toward epic computer-based composition. Cendre feels like a meeting of equals occurring precisely halfway between the two....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic.com | | A collaboration between Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cendre serves as a soundtrack to a drifting summer's evening. Sakamoto's melancholy piano work mixes perfectly with Fennesz's use of ambient textures and guitar, which float and bounce around the contemplative and deliberate piano figures. This is not an album that requires the constant attention of the listener; most of the sounds here are meant to be felt, not heard....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Sala Santa Cecilia (2005), the first collaboration between electronic artist Christian Fennesz and former Yellow Magic Orchestra leader Ryuichi Sakamoto, was a single-track, 19-minute improvisation for which both artists employed heavily manipulated electronics; consequently, their individual contributions tended to blur. This is not the case on the duo’s new full-length: Fennesz’s trademark aquatic guitar-based ambience -- here subtler and less abrasive than anything he’s done before -- is always clearly distinct from Sakamoto’s (mostly) untreated piano....full text |
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