[Touch # TO:76D]
Taken from the forthcoming album 'Black Sea'.
World - Beatport Bleep Boomkat Thrill Jockey zero inch
Reviews:
Boomkat (UK):
Cause for some excitement we're sure you'll agree, this digital-only single is the first indication of what's to be expected from Christian Fennesz's new album (titled Black Sea). The beginnings of 'Saffron Revolution' suggests that the core components of that singular, instantly identifiable Fennesz sound are all still very much in place: the digitally pulverised guitar melodies, the banks of sculpted fuzztones and most of all, the feeling of fluidity and weightlessness that seems to have defined all his post-Endless Summer output. There's so much depth to the production here, and despite sounding so alien and otherworldly, the various layers of instrumentation make for a piece of music that's got plenty of substance. The track seems to swell up to a near-overwhelming point of crescendo, all driven by a barrage of synth strings that sound more like a jet engine at full thrust than anything else. So it's neither a major departure from what's come before, nor a piece of music that screams 'single' in any conventional sense, but the sheer beauty and power of 'Saffron Revolution's sound design suggests Black Sea is very much on course for being one of 2008's key releases. Immense.
Pitchfork (US):
… this lead track certainly keeps expectations very high. Beginning with some of Fennesz' trademark neo-industrial gurgles, it folds in bits of guitar and strings rather beautifully, creating a cluster of sound that trembles, seeming to wait for something. And that something moves in gradually in the form of a massive cloud of distortion, a fine white mist of harmonics mixed with a dark undercurrent of rumbling bass. The tension between these elements is so well balanced, each individual element remaining in the mix even as the sound field becomes impossibly dense, that it's no surprise that it takes a while to get it just right. And as it begins to draw down about five minutes in, you can't help but wish that another full Fennesz album was following behind it. Soon. [Mark Richardson]
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TD01 - Biosphere & Jon Wozencroft "Substrata 2.1"
TO:1 - Sayno Productions "Waterglass"
TO:10 - Mother Tongue "Open in Obscurity"
TO:11 - The Hafler Trio "Ignotum Per Ignotius"
TO:12 - Strafe Fur Rebellion "Vogel"
TO:13 - z'ev "One Foot in the Grave"
TO:14 - Soliman Gamil "Ankh"
TO:15 - Jon Wozencroft "Touch & Fuse"
TO:16 - Etant Donnes "Aurore"
TO:17 - Andrew McKenzie & John Duncan "Contact"
TO:18 - The Hafler Trio "Mastery of Money" [CD]
TO:19 - Strafe FR "Lufthunger"
TO:2 - General Strike "Danger in Paradise"
TO:20 - John Duncan "Send"
TO:21 - Sandoz "Digital Lifeforms"
TO:22 - The Hafler Trio & The Sons of God "Resurrection - Live in Sweden"
TO:23 - Sandoz "Intensely Radioactive"
TO:23-12 - Sandoz "Intensely Radioactive"
TO:24 - The Hafler Trio "How to Reform Mankind"
TO:25 - INDICATE "Whelm"
TO:26 - Philip Jeck "Loopholes"
TO:27 - Chris Watson "Stepping into the Dark"
TO:27 - Chris Watson "Stepping into the Dark"
TO:28 - Sandoz "Every Man Got Dreaming"
TO:28LP - Sandoz "Every Man Got Dreaming"
TO:29 - Scala "Beauty Nowhere"
TO:29LP - Scala "Beauty Nowhere"
TO:3 - Panni Charrington "Second Sense"
TO:3.2 - Panni Bharti "Silent Tongues"
TO:3.3 - Panni Bharti "Silent Tongues"
TO:30 - Ryoji Ikeda "+/-"
TO:31 - Mark Van Hoen "Last Flowers From the Darkness"
TO:32 - Rehberg & Bauer "Fasst"
TO:34 - Mika Vainio "Onko"
TO:35 - Evan Parker & Lawrence Casserley "Solar Wind"
TO:36 - Philip Jeck "Surf"
TO:37 - Chris Watson "Outside the Circle of Fire"
TO:38 - Ryoji Ikeda "0°C"
TO:39 - Rehberg & Bauer "Ballt"
TO:4 - The Nocturnal Emissions "Drowning in a Sea of Bliss"
TO:40 - Fennesz "plus forty seven degrees 56' 37" minus sixteen degrees 51' 08""
TO:40 - Fennesz "plus forty seven degrees 56' 37" minus sixteen degrees 51' 08""
TO:40 - Fennesz "plus forty seven degrees 56' 37" minus sixteen degrees 51' 08""
TO:41 - Richard H. Kirk "Darkness at Noon"
TO:42 - Chris Watson "El Tren Fantasma"
TO:42V - Chris Watson "El Tren Fantasma - The Signal Man's Mix"
TO:43 - Mika Vainio "Kajo"
TO:44 - Ryoji Ikeda "Matrix"
TO:44 - Ryoji Ikeda "Matrix"
TO:45 - Rehberg & Bauer "passt"
TO:46 - Biosphere "Cirque"
TO:46 - Biosphere "Cirque"
TO:46LP - Biosphere "Cirque"
TO:47 - Chris Watson "Weather Report"
TO:48 - Rafael Toral "Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance"
TO:49 - Phill Niblock "Touch Works, for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice"
TO:5 - The Hafler Trio "The Sea Org"
TO:50 - Biosphere "Substrata 2"
TO:51 - Locust "Wrong"
TO:52 - Johann Johannsson "Englaborn"
TO:52LP - Johann Johannsson "Englaborn"
TO:53 - Fennesz "Venice"
TO:54 - Mika Vainio "In the Land of the Blind One-Eyed is King"
TO:55 - Biosphere "Shenzhou"
TO:56 - Philip Jeck "Stoke"
TO:57 - Philip Jeck "7"
TO:58 - Rosy Parlane "Iris"
TO:59 - Phill Niblock "Touch Food"
TO:6 - Strafe Fur Rebellion "Santa Maria"
TO:60 - Ryoji Ikeda "op."
TO:61 - Oren Ambarchi "Grapes from the Estate"
TO:62 - Biosphere "Autour de la Lune"
TO:63 - Z'EV "Headphone Musics # 1-6 b/w As Is As"
TO:64 - Johann Johannsson "Virthulegu forsetar"
TO:64LP - Johann Johannsson "Virthulegu forsetar"
TO:65 - BJ Nilsen "Fade to White"
TO:66CD - Biosphere "Dropsonde"
TO:66LP - Biosphere "Dropsonde"
TO:67 - Philip Jeck "Sand"
TO:68 - Rosy Parlane "Jessamine"
TO:68DS - Jon Wozencroft A3 print / Rosy Parlane - "Willow"
TO:69 - Phill Niblock "Touch Three"
TO:7 - Soliman Gamil "The Egyptian Music"
TO:70 - Hildur Gudnadottir "Without Sinking"
TO:70DS - Hildur Gudnadottir "Iridescence"
TO:70LP - Hildur Gudnadottir "Without Sinking"
TO:71 - Robert Hampson "Vectors"
TO:72 - Mika Vainio "Black Telephone of Matter"
TO:73 - Jana Winderen "Energy Field"
TO:74 - KK NULL "Fertile"
TO:75 - BJNilsen "The Short Night"
TO:75LP - BJNilsen "The Short Night"
TO:76 - Fennesz "Black Sea" [CD]
TO:76D - Fennesz "Saffron Revolution"
TO:76LP - Fennesz "Black Sea" [vinyl LP]
TO:77 - BJNilsen "The Invisible City"
TO:78 - Oren Ambarchi "In the Pendulum's Embrace"
TO:79 - Phill Niblock "Touch Strings"
TO:8 - Neville Brody "The Death of Typography"
TO:80 - Eleh "Location Momentum"
TO:80DS - Eleh "Repose"
TO:81 - Philip Jeck "An Ark for the Listener"
TO:82 - CM von Hausswolff "800 000 Seconds in Harar"
TO:84 - Biosphere "N-Plants"
TO:9 - The Hafler Trio "A Thirsty Fish"
TO:CDR1 - Philip Jeck "Live at ICC, Tokyo"
TO:CDR2 - S.E.T.I. "Live at Gen Weyngaert, Brussels"
TO:CDR3 - Fennesz "Live at Revolver/Melbourne"
TO:CDR4 - Rafael Toral "Engine. Live in Paris"
TO:CDR5 - BJNilsen "Live at Konzerthaus, Vienna 06_12_03"
TOC:1 - The Hafler Trio "Redintegrate"
TOC:2 - The Hafler Trio "Kuklos"
TOUCH.SEVEN.1 - Your Summer Recordings
TS01 - Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews "Amoroso"
TS02 - Chris Watson "Oceanus Pacificus"
TS03 - AER "Project"
TS04 - Fennesz "Transition"
TS04D - Fennesz "On a Desolate Shore a Shadow Passes By"
TS05 - Oren Ambarchi - Destinationless Desire
TS06 - Mika Vainio "Behind the Radiators"
TS07 - Jim O'Rourke "Despite the Water Supply"
TS08 - People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz "Withers in the Waking"
TS09 - Lawrence English "Incongruous Harmonies"
TS10 - Philip Jeck & Marcus Davidson "Spliced"
TS11 - Biosphere "Mysterier"
TS12 - Bruce Gilbert "Monad"
TS13 - Mike Harding "Repaired/Replaced"
T_ZERO_0 - Touch Sampler 00
T_ZERO_1 Touch Sampler 1
T_ZERO_2 Touch Sampler 2
T_ZERO_3 - Touch Sampler 3
Tone 1 - The Hafler Trio "Masturbatorium"
Tone 10 - Sandoz "Chant to Jah"
Tone 11 - John Duncan "Tap Internal"
Tone 12 - Richard H. Kirk "Loopstatic"
Tone 13 - Hazard | Fennesz | Biosphere "Light "
Tone 14 - Touch: Ringtones
Tone 15 - Philip Jeck & Jacob Kirkegaard "Soaked"
Tone 16 - Fennesz "Field Recordings 1995:2002"
Tone 17 - Hazard "Land"
Tone 18 - Star Switch On
Tone 19 - Organum Z'EV "Tinnitus VU"
Tone 2 - Etant Donnes "Royaume"
Tone 20 - Spire: Organ Music Past, Present & Future
Tone 21 - Spire Live at Geneva Cathedral
Tone 22 - Fennesz Sakamoto "Sala Santa Cecilia"
Tone 23 - Fennesz "Live in Japan"
Tone 24 - KK.NULL/Watson/z'ev "Number One"
Tone 25 - Touch 25
Tone 26 - Jacob Kirkegaard "4 Rooms"
Tone 27 - Chris Watson - BJNilsen "Storm"
Tone 28 - Spire Live "Fundamentalis"
Tone 29 - Philip Jeck "Suite: Live in Liverpool"
Tone 3 - The Hafler Trio "FUCK"
Tone 30 - Marhaug | Asheim "Grand Mutation"
Tone 31 - Lawrence English "Kiri No Oto"
Tone 32 - Fennesz Sakamoto "Cendre"
Tone 34 - Gavin Bryars/Philip Jeck/Alter Ego "The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-)"
Tone 35 - Jacob Kirkegaard "Labyrinthitis"
Tone 36 - Jana Winderen "Heated: Live in Japan"
Tone 36DS - Jana Winderen "Submerged"
Tone 37 - Nana April Jun "The Ontology of Noise"
Tone 38 - Biosphere "Wireless - Live at The Arnolfini, Bristol"
Tone 39 - Eleh | Nana April Jun "Observations & Momentum"
Tone 4 - Sandoz "Dark Continent"
Tone 4-12 - Sandoz "Dark Continent"
Tone 40 - Oren Ambarchi "Intermission 2000-2008"
Tone 41 - Hildur Gudnadottir "Mount A"
Tone 42 - Sohrab "A Hidden Place"
Tone 42DR1 - Sohrab "You Are Not Alone l"
Tone 42DR2 | Sohrab - "You Are Not Alone ll"
Tone 42DS - Sohrab "Shouting at Dictators"
Tone 43 - Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson "Cross-Pollination"
Tone 44 - Fennesz "Seven Stars"
Tone 44V - Fennesz "Seven Stars"
Tone 45.1 - BJNilsen "Vinyl"
Tone 45.2 - The Sight Below "N-Plants_Remixes"
Tone 45.3 - Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia "Hit & Run"
Tone 45.4 - Jana Winderen "Debris"
Tone 46 - Fennesz + Sakamoto "Flumina"
Tone 5 - Wir3O "The Last First Letter"
Tone 6 - Richard H. Kirk "Step, Write, Run - Alphaphone Vol.1"
Tone 7 - New Order "Video 5-8-6"
Tone 7.1 - New Order "Video 5-8-6"
Tone 7.2 - New Order "Video 5-8-6"
Tone 7P - New Order "Video 5-8-6"
Tone 8 - WIR "Wirvien"
Tone 9 - Scala "Compass Heart"
VAG 1 - Vagabond 1
freq_out 1 - Finnbogi Petursson A3 print / freq_out - "Dreamlands"
