Bleep

The third collaborative album from Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, following on from 'Sala Santa Cecilia' and 'Cendre', gracefully seats itself in the canon of piano-based compositions from the Touch imprint. 'Flumina' embodies twenty-four pieces of music created throughout Ryuichi Sakamoto's tour of Japan. While on tour Sakamoto played a piano piece in a different key at the beginning of every show with the end objective of a collaborative project always in mind. After twenty-four shows, Sakamoto was left with a tonal range that explored all twenty-four steps of the western tonal system. Fennesz' electronic manipulation of the opuses, including synth-work and guitar direction, converges to form a stunning piece of emotive opera, delicately moving upwards and outwards through a broad spectrum of melodic fragility.