Fennesz in an Austrian ambient artist whose glitchy, fragmented sound can be somewhat defined as "electroacoustic improvisation (EAI)", a style of ambient and drone music that employs unconventional instruments such as treated guitars, turntables, and multi-channel mixers as a means to create this sparse, textured music. "Venice" is an album that progresses through a few surprisingly melodic movements of abstract, physical ambient music until we arrive at "Transit", the culminating track that features Japan vocalist David Sylvian, whose crooning and sophisticated vocal style feels right at home amidst the noisy, swelling bursts of static. This unlikely formula has also proven to be successful by Scott Walker, another distinguished male voice whose days of art-pop gave way to experiments in industrial and drone in recent years.
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