Mosaic by Fennesz - Touch [TO125] FLAC download included with physical items

Mosaic

Fennesz

A 6 track ambient album (43m 6s) — released December 6th 2024 on Touch

#electronic #ambient

This is Fennesz's most reflective album to date. Composed and recorded at the end of 2023 and completed in the summer of 2024. Fennesz set up a new studio space, the third one in four years. He had no immediate concept, this time starting from scratch, with a strict working routine. He got up early in the morning, worked until midday then had a break and worked again until evening. At first, just collecting ideas, experimenting, improvising. Then composing, mixing and correcting. Yet the title came early, 'Mosaic', which mirrored this process of putting an element into place one at a time to build the full picture, an ancient technique of making an image, before pixels did it in a flash.

This '9 to 5' working routine had already been developed on 'Agora' [Touch 2019]. All the other albums before were done differently; a few weeks work, then months in between and another few days or weeks of work. 'Mosaic' was done from beginning to end without a break.

Packaged in the now familiar DVD-style case with artwork and photography by Jon Wozencroft, there is an echo to 'Venice' but 20 years later the division between the land, the horizon and the deep blue sea is more extreme.

Fennesz experiments with unusual time signatures. It's not obvious, but 'Love and the Framed Insects' is in 7/4. 'Personare' is somehow influenced by West African pop music from the 1980s. 'Goniorizon' originally consisted of six hard rock guitar riffs mixed on top of one another. Then it became this 'thing' that somehow opened possibilities for new things to come… all this adds up to a filmic, highly involving and beautiful score of diverse influences and multiple possibilities to be explored by the listener.

With “Mosaic”, Fennesz once again proves he’s not just a musician but a sonic architect, crafting worlds for us to inhabit, even if only for a moment before they dissolve into the ether. It’s an album where science meets dream, precision meets poetry, and sound itself becomes an ancient language we’re invited to rediscover. A real jewel! - Vito Camarretta CHAIN D.L.K.

There's real delight in these waters - Rob Turner The Wire

Mosaic is both methodical and emotional, blending experimentation with an underlying sense of nostalgia. Another excellent album from one of the best. - Joachim Spieth Juno Records

Transcendental... hypnotic - Simon Kirk sun-13

unique Fennesz magic - Norman Records

... feeling of wonder, but it's been tempered by age and experience... brokenhearted drones - Boomkat

Mosaic administers the ultimate antidote to dark nights and bleak times; it is music to get lost in. - April Clare Welsh Bandcamp

immersive and involving... deeply captivating in its unabashed prettiness... a deeply rewarding listen that could not have been made by anyone other than Fennesz himself... there’s still no-one bringing this particular level of craft to these types of soundscapes. - Levi Dayan The Quietus

...deeply personal... The vibration of the strings is transformed into electricity, which easily becomes math, and he uses his tools to turn those numbers into the most elemental feelings we’ve got. - Mark Richardson Hearing Things

the mesmerizing (but more hidden) pleasures of how beautifully sounds can fray, dissolve, linger, transform, and move through space when the right person makes those details a priority. - Brainwashed

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