Fennesz

Austrian guitarist, composer and electronic musician Christian Fennesz will return to Warsaw after a decade. The pretext for the visit is the artist's latest solo album, scheduled for release in spring 2024.

Fennesz is recognized as a key figure and one of electronic music's most distinctive voices. His international reputation has been consolidated by his significant contributions to the creation of new forms of musical expression. In the early 1990s, Fennesz became involved in Vienna's techno scene. Although formally trained in guitar and ethnomusicology, the artist decided to take up composing and developing his own language of sounds in the electronic idiom. By connecting his guitar to a laptop, transforming and processing it, he managed to create a distinctive sound that is hard to mistake for another.

On his first full-length solo release, Hotel Para.lel, he introduced a mix of legal textures and twisted guitar sounds. The album won the Prix Ars Electronica award. His groundbreaking third album Endless Summer is today considered one of the most important releases of the 21st century, helping to change the perception of electronic music. On it, he gave great importance to melody, appearing delicately under (or over) the changing soundscape. He has recorded and performed with Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Kev Martin, Keith Rowe, Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, Mike Patton and many others. Fennesz has also collaborated with Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke as the Fenn O'Berg improvisation trio.