Hotel Paral.lel

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Hotel Paral.lel
Studio album by Fennesz

Publication
(s)

September 1997

Label (s) Mego mego016

Format (s)

CD , LP

Genre (s)

Ambient
Glitch
Noise
IDM

Title (number)

14 (original version)
15 (re-release, 2007)

running time

53.02 (original version)
63.01 (re-release, 2007)

production

Christian Fennesz

Studio (s)

Living room of the producer

chronology
- Hotel Paral.lel Endless Summer
2001

Hotel Paral.lel is the first studio album by the Austrian electronic producer and sound artist Christian Fennesz, better known as Fennesz . It was released in 1997 on the Mego label and was re-released on the same label in 2003 and 2007. The 2007 version included a seven-minute bonus track from 1996.

The cover of the CD was designed by Tina Frank .

style

Hotel Paral.lel is considered the most experimental album by Fennesz. The songs are kept very minimalistic and atonal. Drones and glitches are very present. The song Nebenraum, for example, consists of a single note for most of the time, which gradually becomes quieter and is replaced by a quiet melody. The piece from is considered to be the "popiest" piece on the record. The album was not as financially successful as later Fennesz albums, for example Endless Summer from 2001. The album was praised by critics for its courage.

Music videos

A music video for Aus was made in 1997. The artist duo skot directed . The music video was analyzed in the ZDF series Fantastic Voyages by the British art professor and critic Chris Darke .

Jürgen Moritz and Norbert Pfaffenbichler shot a music video for Santora and traxdata in 1998 .

reception

The page Almost Cool writes about the album: "It's krachig like crazy, but also includes what his rhythmischten work so far." The site also states that two of his best titles to date, fa and aus , are on the record. Almost Cool gave the plate 7.25 out of 10 points.

Nate Dorr from PopMatters writes:

“It's the beating heart of Fennesz's best music. The hand-played notes with charm, clarity and warmth of human feelings, which are rare in the ranks of experimental noise music. "

- PopMatters

Dorr gave the plate 6 out of 10 points.

Sean Cooper writes at allmusic :

“Fennesz alludes to drones , machine ambient, minimal experimental techno and abstract, beat-oriented electronic sounds. The album revolves around compositional styles in which the artist clearly (and gratefully) has only a brief interest. Reference points could be Main , Porter Ricks , Nonplace Urban Field and Throbbing Gristle , but also other mega- artists such as General Magic or Farmers Manual . Fennesz manages to establish a consistent imposition for stylistic conventions, but at the same time it is easy to hear and anything but presumptuous. "

- allmusic

Cooper gives the plate 4.5 out of 5 points.

The album won the Prix ​​Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Digital Musics in 1999 .

Track list

All songs were composed and produced by Christian Fennesz.

  1. s2 - 5.36
  2. adjoining room - 4.22
  3. stuff - 1.12
  4. blok m - 4.18
  5. Santora - 5.09
  6. dheli plaza - 6.18
  7. fa - 4.37
  8. Traxdata - 4.11
  9. gr_500 - 1.16
  10. szabo - 5.27
  11. uds - 3.37
  12. Herbert missing - 0.35
  13. great feedbacker - 2.25
  14. from - 3.59

Bonus track from the 2007 re-release

15. 5 - 6:59
from music video - 4.02

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Translation by the author. Originally in English: It's noisy as hell, but also contains what's some of his most rhythmic work ever.
  2. ↑ http://www.almostcool.org/mr/2096/
  3. ^ Translation by the author. English Original: It is the beating heart of Fennesz's best music. The notes hand-plucked with charm, clarity, and warmth of human feeling that is rare among the ranks of experimental noise.
  4. ↑ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/fennesz-hotel-parallel/
  5. ^ Translation by the author. English Original: Skipping across droning, machinic ambient, minimal experimental techno, and abstract, beat-oriented electronica, the album draws copiously from compositional styles the artist clearly (and thankfully) has nothing but a passing interest in. Points of reference might include, by turns, Main, Porter Ricks, Nonplace Urban Field, and Throbbing Gristle, but like other Mego artists such as General Magic and Farmers Manual, Fennesz manages to sustain a consistent assault on stylistic convention while remaining at the same time positively listenable and anything but pretentious.
  6. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000748818

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