David Fennessy - Caruso [Unsounds 080]

Put out on the album circuit via the long standing Unsounds label on April 19th, 2k24 is "Caruso", the latest longplay effort conceived by Irish composer David Fennessy. With four pieces rolled out over the course of 57 minutes the opening main piece "Caruso" draws inspiration - and a lot of short samples as a source material - from gramophone recordings of famed Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, looped and layered to create an ever thickenig, slightly Plunderphonics-referencing atmospheric backdrop for stripped down and hypnotic Postrock x PostPostrock-informed, ever meandering guitar movements hovering above and beyond regular measures and transporting the deep and attentive listener into a realm exceeding our standard perception of space and time and therefore marks our favorite composition on the album for more than one single reason. Furthermore the subsequent "Nox" offers a combination of tender, longing viola drones and fragmented Spoken Word sequences which surely will speak to all fans and followers of Ambient and Deep Listening Music out there despite its mainly Contemporary Classical nature, "Hauptstimme" sees a dramatic fight unfolding between a noisy, partially disharmonic large scale ensemble and an oftentimes subdued and buried solo viola trying to wiggle and wind its way to the forefront of the mix whereas the final "Nebenstimme" waves goodbye on a deeply solemn and tremendously beautiful tip, pairing chiming crystalline celesta sounds and tender viola performance in a rather enchanted and mythical manner. Recommended.

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