Philip Jeck
Suite: Live In Liverpool

A Norman Records recommendation (20th November 2008)

This record left our Ant feeling ecstatic.

While discussing our infinite sadness at the decline of the planets amphibian population, in the background spinning is the rather wonderful 'Suite' LP by Philip Jeck. This has really got my attention. Jeck's performance at Hive,FACT, Liverpool October 2006 has been pressed up onto heavy clear vinyl complete with a fab Wozencroft sleeve. The sound just has my imagination running wild. It's like a million shards of shattered dub and metallic chords splitting into fractals and floating through the cosmos. This is by far the most haunting thing I've heard in some time. He creates the most amazing and beautiful sound world that reminds me at times of Porter Ricks then there's a sound that I can't quite grasp... Like a processed middle eastern string instrument. Then there's the flipside which is equally as arresting and beautiful. I'll spare you the waffle and urge you to discover it for yourselves. Out on Autofact.

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What their label says...

1. Press 2. Intro Roll 1. Live With Errors 2. All That's Allowed 3. Chime “Suite: Live in Liverpool" follows Philip Jeck's acclaimed collaboration with Gavin Bryars and Alter Ego on a new version of 'The Sinking of the Titanic' (Touch Tone 34). It is the companion release to his latest solo album, 'Sand'; a set of five new compositions that highlight Jeck's mastery of vinyl manipulation, personal and collective memories.During the past year Jeck has refined and consolidated his unique sound, playing superb sets at last summer's Faster than Sound festival and at York Minster for Spire. He has recently released 'Amoroso' [Touch # TS01, 7" vinyl only with Fennesz]  where he responds to Charles Matthews's homage to Arvo Pärt. 'Suite' is at once elegiac, celebrational, mournful and uplifting. Those who have followed Jeck's development since his first release, "Loopholes" (Touch TO:26) will observe his return to the industrial textures that coloured that collection, though here they are fused with his symphonic grace and continued development as a composer and live performer . Philip Jeck studied visual art at Dartington College of Arts. He started working with record players and electronics in the early '80's and has made soundtracks and toured with many dance and theatre companies as we as well as his solo concert work. His best kown work "Vinyl Requiem" (with Lol Sargent): a performance for 180 '50's/'60's record players won Time Out Performance Award for 1993. He has also over the last few years returned to visual art making installations using from 6 to 80 record players including "Off The Record" for Sonic Boom at The Hayward Gallery, London [2000]. 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. Jeck makes geniunely moving and transfixing music, where we hear the art not the gimmick. This is Philip Jeck's 5th solo album for Touch after 'Loopholes' [Touch # TO:27, 1995], Surf [TO:36, 1998], Stoke [TO:56, 2002], '7' [TO:57, 2004] and 'Sand' [Touch # TO:67, 2008].  He recently performed on "The Sinking of the Titanic" with Gavin Bryars in Rome, about which Boomkat (UK) said: "The most noticeable addition is Jeck, whose expertise and unique style seems to fit like the final piece of the puzzle as his crackles and motifs melt into the architecture of the recording as if they had always been there. This additional layer of nostalgia brought forth by these found sounds adds a significant sense of history, forcing the mind back into hazy film footage and decomposed photos, a perfect match for the subject matter."

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