Fennesz, O’Rourke, Rehberg
The Return of FennO’Berg
[MEGO, 2003]
In a world of J-Lo and Nelly (Nike??), thank the many non-existent gods for Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke, and Peter Rehberg. Some might say that this review is an excuse to put a picture of a penis in the Sil, and yet I can’t help presenting this record to you as one of the most significant releases of last year. Everything is fair game for these laptop virtuosos, as cheesy house is sodomized by blues references, glitch gets intimate with chamber music, and ambient finds a soulmate with rock guitar chords. Sound difficult? Certainly. Yet, after several listens, the orgasmic sublimity of “A Viennese Tragedy” – appropriating Mahler, among other things – threatens to transcend everything you think you know about music. Gossamer ‘strings’ juxtapose musique-concrete textures to brilliant effect. Led from this peak to the haunting closer “We Will Diffuse You”, you begin to realize how profound deconstruction-as-creation can be.
Quite simply, this is a masterpiece.
MP3: Fennesz, O'Rourke, Rehberg - A Viennese Tragedy
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