started his career as the
singer/guitarist/songwriter in the group maische,one
of the
more interesting bands to occupy the viennese underground
during the late eighties. incorporating into their sound techniques
like free form improvisation and instrumental rock in a time when such
practices were generally not accepted by the rock audiences.
with their demise in 1993, fennesz rethought his approach to
return in 1995 with the 12" ep "instrument" on the austrian
electronic label mego. having freed
himself of the constrictive
band format he was able freely experiment with new electronic
means and a whole new audience.
since then he has released an ep on syntactic
records. A full
length cd for mego entitled "hotel paral.lel" was released in
1997. fennesz has also performed numerous times (both solo and
in collaboration) at various festivals (phonotaktik.95 & 99,
hyperstrings, sonar, ars electronica, konfrontation nickelsdorf, lmc,
musikprotokoll....) and alongside such diverse artists as:
merzbow, phillip
jeck, alec
empire, elliot sharp,kaffe
matthews, kevin
drumm, werner
dafeldecker to name but a few.
he also co founded the elctronic jazz big band orchester
33 1/3
with christof
kurzmann. recently he has been touring with
peter rehberg and jim
o'rourke,as well as work for tanz
hotel
dance company in skopje and vienna.
discography:
mego 004 instrument 12" (1995)
"sportster" - chill out /sabotage (1997)
"surf" - decay/ ash international (1997)
"untitled" picknick mit hermann/rhiz (1997)
pdn 006 orchester 33 1/3 cd (1997) (w. christof kurzmann a.o.)
mego 016 hotel paral.lel cd (1997)
mego 020 plays 7" (1998) (cd version released by moikai)
th 001198 il*libro*mio mini cd (1998)
some reviews & interviews:
http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/278.html
http://www.rain.org/~audio/idm/f2.htm#hot
