Philip Jeck
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Boomkat Product Review:
Touch fill in some of the gaps in Philip Jeck's chronology with a comprehensive two-disc collection that memorialises a life of constant interaction, featuring tributes from Fennesz, Rosy Parlane, Chris Watson, David Sylvian and others, and previously unreleased collaborations with Gavin Bryars, Claire M Singer and Jana Winderen.
It's fitting that 'rpm' should open with a track from Touch figurehead Christian Fennesz, who appeared with Jeck numerous times over the years, most recently on 2023's Arvo Pärt tribute 'Amoroso'. Fennesz responds to Jeck's signature sound by alloying it with his own, granulating light-headed, degenerated vinyl loops on 'Dancer' and driving the sounds into a 'Venice'-like euphoric epiphany. Watson too had collaborated with Jeck just before he passed away in 2022 on 'Oxmardyke', and supplements that set with the similarly impressionistic 'Saltmarshe Station'; the original album was finished by Jeck on his hospital bed, where he worked with Watson's recordings on his laptop, and Watson's addendum is a blurry memory of that period, made up of rumpled mechanical rhythms and hypnotic field recordings. Faith Coloccia, who teamed up with Jeck on 2021's excellent 'Stardust', goes deep on 'Pleione', teasing ominous sub-heavy moans into ecstatic choral loops and aural snapshots of the humming Californian cityscape.
Jeck was active for decades - his first experiments with turntables were pioneered in the early '80s - so thankfully, 'rpm' helps us reach far further into his history. Chris Cheek, who recorded with Jeck in avant-garde three-piece Slant long before he was involved with Touch, contributes the touching 'Clocking Off', recording church bells ringing into the nighttime ambience. There's a touching moment from David Sylvian, who invited Jeck to perform alongside him in 2011, when he reads Emily Dickinson's 'I Measure Every Grief I Meet' over melancholy cello from Hildur Guðnadóttir. And long-running German percussion troupe Drums Off Chaos recall their live collaboration with Jeck on the stimulating 'Keep in Touch'. Jeck's final unreleased collaborations round off the collection, including three phenomenally rusted cuts with Gavin Bryars, who Jeck worked with on 2008's astonishing version of 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Award-winning composer and organist Claire M Singer was working on a project with Jeck just before he passed, and two sketches are provided here, made by Jeck from Singer's evocative pipe organ recordings.
There's even a track from Jah Wobble & Deep Space, the band that Jeck joined in the early '00s, releasing the underrated 'Five Beat' full-length with them in 2003. And the anthology concludes with 'Pilots', a track that was finished by Jeck in March 2022, made from Jana Winderen's stirring recordings of pilot whales.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Touch fill in some of the gaps in Philip Jeck's chronology with a comprehensive two-disc collection that memorialises a life of constant interaction, featuring tributes from Fennesz, Rosy Parlane, Chris Watson, David Sylvian and others, and previously unreleased collaborations with Gavin Bryars, Claire M Singer and Jana Winderen.
It's fitting that 'rpm' should open with a track from Touch figurehead Christian Fennesz, who appeared with Jeck numerous times over the years, most recently on 2023's Arvo Pärt tribute 'Amoroso'. Fennesz responds to Jeck's signature sound by alloying it with his own, granulating light-headed, degenerated vinyl loops on 'Dancer' and driving the sounds into a 'Venice'-like euphoric epiphany. Watson too had collaborated with Jeck just before he passed away in 2022 on 'Oxmardyke', and supplements that set with the similarly impressionistic 'Saltmarshe Station'; the original album was finished by Jeck on his hospital bed, where he worked with Watson's recordings on his laptop, and Watson's addendum is a blurry memory of that period, made up of rumpled mechanical rhythms and hypnotic field recordings. Faith Coloccia, who teamed up with Jeck on 2021's excellent 'Stardust', goes deep on 'Pleione', teasing ominous sub-heavy moans into ecstatic choral loops and aural snapshots of the humming Californian cityscape.
Jeck was active for decades - his first experiments with turntables were pioneered in the early '80s - so thankfully, 'rpm' helps us reach far further into his history. Chris Cheek, who recorded with Jeck in avant-garde three-piece Slant long before he was involved with Touch, contributes the touching 'Clocking Off', recording church bells ringing into the nighttime ambience. There's a touching moment from David Sylvian, who invited Jeck to perform alongside him in 2011, when he reads Emily Dickinson's 'I Measure Every Grief I Meet' over melancholy cello from Hildur Guðnadóttir. And long-running German percussion troupe Drums Off Chaos recall their live collaboration with Jeck on the stimulating 'Keep in Touch'. Jeck's final unreleased collaborations round off the collection, including three phenomenally rusted cuts with Gavin Bryars, who Jeck worked with on 2008's astonishing version of 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Award-winning composer and organist Claire M Singer was working on a project with Jeck just before he passed, and two sketches are provided here, made by Jeck from Singer's evocative pipe organ recordings.
There's even a track from Jah Wobble & Deep Space, the band that Jeck joined in the early '00s, releasing the underrated 'Five Beat' full-length with them in 2003. And the anthology concludes with 'Pilots', a track that was finished by Jeck in March 2022, made from Jana Winderen's stirring recordings of pilot whales.
R.I.P legend.
Boomkat Product Review:
Touch fill in some of the gaps in Philip Jeck's chronology with a comprehensive two-disc collection that memorialises a life of constant interaction, featuring tributes from Fennesz, Rosy Parlane, Chris Watson, David Sylvian and others, and previously unreleased collaborations with Gavin Bryars, Claire M Singer and Jana Winderen.
It's fitting that 'rpm' should open with a track from Touch figurehead Christian Fennesz, who appeared with Jeck numerous times over the years, most recently on 2023's Arvo Pärt tribute 'Amoroso'. Fennesz responds to Jeck's signature sound by alloying it with his own, granulating light-headed, degenerated vinyl loops on 'Dancer' and driving the sounds into a 'Venice'-like euphoric epiphany. Watson too had collaborated with Jeck just before he passed away in 2022 on 'Oxmardyke', and supplements that set with the similarly impressionistic 'Saltmarshe Station'; the original album was finished by Jeck on his hospital bed, where he worked with Watson's recordings on his laptop, and Watson's addendum is a blurry memory of that period, made up of rumpled mechanical rhythms and hypnotic field recordings. Faith Coloccia, who teamed up with Jeck on 2021's excellent 'Stardust', goes deep on 'Pleione', teasing ominous sub-heavy moans into ecstatic choral loops and aural snapshots of the humming Californian cityscape.
Jeck was active for decades - his first experiments with turntables were pioneered in the early '80s - so thankfully, 'rpm' helps us reach far further into his history. Chris Cheek, who recorded with Jeck in avant-garde three-piece Slant long before he was involved with Touch, contributes the touching 'Clocking Off', recording church bells ringing into the nighttime ambience. There's a touching moment from David Sylvian, who invited Jeck to perform alongside him in 2011, when he reads Emily Dickinson's 'I Measure Every Grief I Meet' over melancholy cello from Hildur Guðnadóttir. And long-running German percussion troupe Drums Off Chaos recall their live collaboration with Jeck on the stimulating 'Keep in Touch'. Jeck's final unreleased collaborations round off the collection, including three phenomenally rusted cuts with Gavin Bryars, who Jeck worked with on 2008's astonishing version of 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Award-winning composer and organist Claire M Singer was working on a project with Jeck just before he passed, and two sketches are provided here, made by Jeck from Singer's evocative pipe organ recordings.
There's even a track from Jah Wobble & Deep Space, the band that Jeck joined in the early '00s, releasing the underrated 'Five Beat' full-length with them in 2003. And the anthology concludes with 'Pilots', a track that was finished by Jeck in March 2022, made from Jana Winderen's stirring recordings of pilot whales.
R.I.P legend.
Boomkat Product Review:
Touch fill in some of the gaps in Philip Jeck's chronology with a comprehensive two-disc collection that memorialises a life of constant interaction, featuring tributes from Fennesz, Rosy Parlane, Chris Watson, David Sylvian and others, and previously unreleased collaborations with Gavin Bryars, Claire M Singer and Jana Winderen.
It's fitting that 'rpm' should open with a track from Touch figurehead Christian Fennesz, who appeared with Jeck numerous times over the years, most recently on 2023's Arvo Pärt tribute 'Amoroso'. Fennesz responds to Jeck's signature sound by alloying it with his own, granulating light-headed, degenerated vinyl loops on 'Dancer' and driving the sounds into a 'Venice'-like euphoric epiphany. Watson too had collaborated with Jeck just before he passed away in 2022 on 'Oxmardyke', and supplements that set with the similarly impressionistic 'Saltmarshe Station'; the original album was finished by Jeck on his hospital bed, where he worked with Watson's recordings on his laptop, and Watson's addendum is a blurry memory of that period, made up of rumpled mechanical rhythms and hypnotic field recordings. Faith Coloccia, who teamed up with Jeck on 2021's excellent 'Stardust', goes deep on 'Pleione', teasing ominous sub-heavy moans into ecstatic choral loops and aural snapshots of the humming Californian cityscape.
Jeck was active for decades - his first experiments with turntables were pioneered in the early '80s - so thankfully, 'rpm' helps us reach far further into his history. Chris Cheek, who recorded with Jeck in avant-garde three-piece Slant long before he was involved with Touch, contributes the touching 'Clocking Off', recording church bells ringing into the nighttime ambience. There's a touching moment from David Sylvian, who invited Jeck to perform alongside him in 2011, when he reads Emily Dickinson's 'I Measure Every Grief I Meet' over melancholy cello from Hildur Guðnadóttir. And long-running German percussion troupe Drums Off Chaos recall their live collaboration with Jeck on the stimulating 'Keep in Touch'. Jeck's final unreleased collaborations round off the collection, including three phenomenally rusted cuts with Gavin Bryars, who Jeck worked with on 2008's astonishing version of 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Award-winning composer and organist Claire M Singer was working on a project with Jeck just before he passed, and two sketches are provided here, made by Jeck from Singer's evocative pipe organ recordings.
There's even a track from Jah Wobble & Deep Space, the band that Jeck joined in the early '00s, releasing the underrated 'Five Beat' full-length with them in 2003. And the anthology concludes with 'Pilots', a track that was finished by Jeck in March 2022, made from Jana Winderen's stirring recordings of pilot whales.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Touch fill in some of the gaps in Philip Jeck's chronology with a comprehensive two-disc collection that memorialises a life of constant interaction, featuring tributes from Fennesz, Rosy Parlane, Chris Watson, David Sylvian and others, and previously unreleased collaborations with Gavin Bryars, Claire M Singer and Jana Winderen.
It's fitting that 'rpm' should open with a track from Touch figurehead Christian Fennesz, who appeared with Jeck numerous times over the years, most recently on 2023's Arvo Pärt tribute 'Amoroso'. Fennesz responds to Jeck's signature sound by alloying it with his own, granulating light-headed, degenerated vinyl loops on 'Dancer' and driving the sounds into a 'Venice'-like euphoric epiphany. Watson too had collaborated with Jeck just before he passed away in 2022 on 'Oxmardyke', and supplements that set with the similarly impressionistic 'Saltmarshe Station'; the original album was finished by Jeck on his hospital bed, where he worked with Watson's recordings on his laptop, and Watson's addendum is a blurry memory of that period, made up of rumpled mechanical rhythms and hypnotic field recordings. Faith Coloccia, who teamed up with Jeck on 2021's excellent 'Stardust', goes deep on 'Pleione', teasing ominous sub-heavy moans into ecstatic choral loops and aural snapshots of the humming Californian cityscape.
Jeck was active for decades - his first experiments with turntables were pioneered in the early '80s - so thankfully, 'rpm' helps us reach far further into his history. Chris Cheek, who recorded with Jeck in avant-garde three-piece Slant long before he was involved with Touch, contributes the touching 'Clocking Off', recording church bells ringing into the nighttime ambience. There's a touching moment from David Sylvian, who invited Jeck to perform alongside him in 2011, when he reads Emily Dickinson's 'I Measure Every Grief I Meet' over melancholy cello from Hildur Guðnadóttir. And long-running German percussion troupe Drums Off Chaos recall their live collaboration with Jeck on the stimulating 'Keep in Touch'. Jeck's final unreleased collaborations round off the collection, including three phenomenally rusted cuts with Gavin Bryars, who Jeck worked with on 2008's astonishing version of 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Award-winning composer and organist Claire M Singer was working on a project with Jeck just before he passed, and two sketches are provided here, made by Jeck from Singer's evocative pipe organ recordings.
There's even a track from Jah Wobble & Deep Space, the band that Jeck joined in the early '00s, releasing the underrated 'Five Beat' full-length with them in 2003. And the anthology concludes with 'Pilots', a track that was finished by Jeck in March 2022, made from Jana Winderen's stirring recordings of pilot whales.
R.I.P legend.
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