Monthly Archives: September 2008

TO:40 – Fennesz “plus forty seven degrees 56′ 37″ minus sixteen degrees 51′ 08″”

Touch has reissued a digipak version of Fennesz’s first studio album for Touch, previously released as a jewel case in 1999. [There was prior to that a deluxe edition of 1000 copies in landscape art format, which sold out immediately.] It has been out of print for a couple of years. The audio remains the same, the imagery uses the location shots from the deluxe edition.

Touch # TO:40
CD – 8 tracks – 37:45

Track List:

1. 010
2. 011
3. 012
4. 013
5. 014
6. 015
7. 016
8. 017

This is Christian Fennesz’s 2nd solo full album after the highly acclaimed ‘Hotel Paral.lel’ (Mego 16). He also released ‘fenneszPLAYS’, a 3″ CD originally issued by Mego but now on Jim O’Rourke’s new label, Moikai. Fennesz has also made various contributions to compilation CDs, including the awesome ‘Surf’ on ‘DECAY’ (Ash International 3.9) and is a member of MIMEO, fixed line up orchestra alongside Keith Rowe, Kaffe Matthews, Jerome Noetinger, Phil Durrant, Peter Rehberg, Thomas Lehn, Rafael Toral, Gert Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler, Markus Wettstein, and Markus Schmickler. He has also released a live CD on Touch, # TO:CDR3. ‘plus forty seven degrees 56′ 37″ minus sixteen degrees 51’ 08″‘ was recorded in his garden in Austria in July and August 1999; the photographs in the booklet by Jon Wozencroft embroider this.

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Gabbla | French-Algerian Production

Gabbla [Eng. trans. “Inland”], is a film directed by Tariq Teguia.

The soundtrack contains Fennesz’s “A Year in a Minute” [from Endless Summer]. The film was nominated for The Golden Lion at Venice in 2008.

Touch Artists Playlisted in the October Issue of Mojo

An unexpected pleasure is to be found within the pages of the October 08 issue of Mojo magazine. Two Touch artists feature at positions two and three of the Mojo Top 10 playlist: Lawrence English’s “Organs Lost At Sea” and “Cima Verde” by Chris Watson.
Lawrence English’s album, “Kiri No Oto” can be found in the TouchShop. Chris Watson’s “Cima Verde” is available via Touch’s distributors, Kudos, and can be purchased via www.kudosrecords.co.uk. To purchase his Touch editions click here.

Philip Jeck, Jacob Kirkegaard Performing at Happy New Ears 13

The 13th Happy New Ears “festival de musique nouvelle” in Courtrai, Belgium runs from 13 September – 28 September 2008. Touch artists in performance include Philip Jeck, appearing on 20 September. The weekend before, on 13 September, there is a performance of Labyrinthitis by Jacob Kirkegaard. Jacob is also a member of the freq_out collective who present their freq_out 7 installation during the festival and also perform on the 13 September as THE FREQ_OUT ORCHESTRA.