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FENNESZ / JECK / MATTHEWS - Amoroso
Touch
7" // £5.49
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Released: Apr 2008
Catalogue Number: TS01

FENNESZ / JECK / MATTHEWS - Amoroso, Touch

Back in stock. A third magical instalment in the Touch label's 7" series, Amoroso pays homage to the so-called 'sacred minimalism' of Arvo Part, and features a trio of collaborators: Touch mainstays Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck are joined by renowned organist Charles Matthews, a performer who first contributed to the Touch label via the Spire project. On the A-side 'Christian Fennesz plays Charles Matthews', and does so in an extremely beautiful, harmonious fashion, treating the original organ recording with reverence befitting its setting (York Minster no less). You can barely detect Fennesz's guiding hand until a surge of granular eruptions flood into the music halfway through the side, lifting the organ from the fixture of the corporeal realm, and into subtly more esoteric surrounds, a process we're used to hearing Fennesz's guitar undergoing. It's really a thing of quite immense beauty. On the B-side, Jeck is less delicate with Matthews' performance, colouring it with grit and flecks of coarse analogue noise. Importantly you can still make out the intervals being played, but the experience is a far more bracing engagement with the timbres of the organ, which are here reconditioned to instil a certain amount of divine terror - this is probably the sort of fiery, visionary retake on sacred music William Blake would approve of. Sublime stuff, and another essential purchase from Touch.

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