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Suite
philip jeck
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Philip Jeck's _Suite_ is a vinyl release which is comprised of various edits and mixes captured from recordings of his live concerts over a period of time. This method of composition is also how he compiles his CDs, reworking and adding new elements where he thinks fit. Following on from an active period of concert performances (which has included, for example, a live appearance at York Minster as part of the Spire project) _Suite_ finds Jeck very much on top of his game. Immediately the music plunges into a deep pool of vinyl crackle and we're instantly submerged in that familiar Jeck sound world. You'll hear snatches of what sounds like a gamelan ensemble tucked away in there, vast washes of old string recordings, and more industrial, sculpted noise textures too, all of which get filtered through a toolbox of disheveled, grainy electronics. Although Jeck's music has always had that 'phantom radio broadcast' feel to it - as if you're hearing some lost and jumbled shortwave sounds drifting across the ether - there's a real coherence to this set, and while he does have a tendency to glance across music derived from a variety of disparate cultures, his craft is executed seamlessly and with a real instinct for compositional cogency. This album seems to place emphasis on the footprints left by Jeck's working processes over and above the importance of the sound sources themselves, and the entire set feels like a thoroughly abstract, almost ghostly presence.
Links: http://www.philipjeck.com/
Links: http://www.philipjeck.com/
Philip Jeck (UK) studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early 80s and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as well as his solo concert work. His best known work is _Vinyl Requiem_ (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 50s/60s record players won _Time Out_ Performance Award for 1993. Over the last few years he has also returned to visual art making installations using from six to 80 record players, including _Off The Record_ for Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London (2000). In 2010 Philip won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award.
Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops, turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes genuinely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick.
Philip Jeck works with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops, turning them to his own purposes. He really does play them as musical instruments, creating an intensely personal language that evolves with each added part of a record. Philip Jeck makes genuinely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick.