Artist : Philip Jeck
Title : An Ark For The Listener
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 10/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 09
Label : Touch
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 49:55 min
Size : 66,10 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Pilot/ Dark Blue Night 08:37
02.Ark 04:18
03.Twentyninth 02:35
04.Dark Rehearsal 07:32
05.Thirtieth/ Pilot Reprise 02:45
06.The All Of Water 08:32
07.The Pilot (Among Our Shoals) 04:48
08.All That's Allowed (Released) 03:23
09.Chime, Chime (Re-rung) 07:25
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49:55 min
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 geniunely moving and transfixing
music, where we hear the art not the
gimmick.
Philip Jeck writes: "A version of "An
ark for the listener" was first
performed at Kings Place London on
24/02/2010. It is a meditation on verse
33 of "The Wreck of the Deutchsland",
Gerard Manley Hopkins poem about the
drowning on December 7th 1875 of five
Franciscan nuns exiled from Germany.
This CD version was recorded at home in
Liverpool and used extracts from live
performances over the last 12 months.
The "coda:" tracks are remixes of 2
pieces from "Suite: Live in Liverpool".
"chime, chime(re-rung)" was originally
made for Musicworks magazine (#104,
Summer 09) and "all that's allowed
(remix)" is previously unreleased. All
tracks were made using Fidelity record-
players, Casio SK1 keyboards, Sony
mini-disc recorders, Behringer mixers,
Ibanez bass guitar, Boss delay pedal and
Zoom bass effects pedal."
An ark... is Jeck's 6th solo album for
touch since 'Loopholes' in 1995. The
Wire reckoned it was 'Stoke' (Touch,
2002) which 'made him great, but his
body of work and his achingly brilliant
live sets are rapidly defining him as
one of our best artists, and his recent
award from The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
confirms him as such.
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
known 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). In 2010
he won one of The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
Awards for Composition.
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