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previous artist: jazzkammer		there are 8 titles featuring philip jeck in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: jan jelinek

$7.27

back in stock as of
november 25th, 2008

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march 28th, 2008

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touch (uk) #ts 01 ep
touch sevens (uk) #ts 01 ep

fennesz / philip jeck / charles matthews “amoroso” seven inch single record

fennesz plays charles matthews
philip jeck plays charles matthews

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "fennesz plays charles matthews"

touch press release...

ts01 fennesz - jeck - matthews: amoroso

side a: fennesz plays charles matthews
side b: philip jeck plays charles matthews

charles matthews plays the grand organ in york minster, during spire live on 20th january 2007.
this release is a homage to arvo pärt ...

touch sevens series of 7" vinyl

7" vinyl was the quintessential format for popular music. today, it is an undervalued and mostly promotional medium, used as a fetishistic signpost to a time of musical authenticity and a "healthy" popular culture. it might seem like another retrograde step to launch a vinyl series just as the download format threatens to dominate, and indeed there is an element of "the rear view mirror" ... the generation of touch artists who grew up with vinyl [and cassette] still feeling a strong emotional attachment to it. this series is more than that ... an overtly critical, non-digital statement is supported by treatments of audio work which cannot be applied to digital formats - the sonic texture, the use of a locked groove, the a & the b and the additional dimension of the visual counterpoint. as for the aspect of audience participation, we choose not to specify the rpm on the label, encouraging the listener to experiment with playback options and personal preferences. an attempt to make music that works at both speeds. the front cover might actually be the back cover ...

$14.96

back in stock as of
june 22nd, 2007

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march 30th, 2007

touch (uk) #tone 15 cd

philip jeck / jacob kirkegaard “soaked” compact disc

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touch press release...

touch # tone 15
cd
7 tracks - 35:24

this recording is taken from their live performance at the moers jazz festival, germany, in may 2002

“there are grains of truth in the suggestion that, in moving, you may find yourself in or out of some one’s favour. but, listen to the slow, delicate, even introspective background: some breeze, some chimes, some distant thunder as each focal point remains a lament.”

this blistering work was recorded live at the moers jazz festival, germany, in may 2002 and follows hot on the heels of philip jeck’s highly acclaimed “stoke” [touch # to:56, 2002], about which the wire said “philip jeck has always been good, but stoke makes him great” and side-line wrote: “an essential record for the lovers of meaningful experimental and ambient stuff!”.

jacob kirkegaard is a member of danish combo aeter who work in a mixed media context. he was born in denmark, 1975 and is currently studying at the academy of media arts, cologne. germany. he has taken part in numerous festivals throughout europe, playing live, improvising with samplers and other electronics, as he does on this recording.

philip jeck, meanwhile, sticks to his turntables. he started experimenting with record players back at school in the 1960s, later won the time out performance award for “vinyl requiem” [1993] and has released 3 solo albums for touch – “loopholes” [to:26], “surf” [to:36] and the abovementioned “stoke”. he lives and works in liverpool.

$14.96

back in stock as of
june 22nd, 2007

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october 19th, 2006

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touch (uk) #to:56 cd

philip jeck “stoke” compact disc

above (5:59)
lambing (4:48)
vienna faults (6:08)
pax (8:09)
below (7:32)
open (5:57)
close (14:54)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "vienna faults"

touch press release...

touch # to:56
cd
7 tracks - 53:32

with its acrobatic athleticism and penchant for charming gimmicks, in all likelihood hiphop will indefinitely dominate the field of turntablism. even record-spinning abstractionists like christian marclay and martin tetrault, who may not always share hiphop's necessity for the beat, put on flashy demonstrations that engage the machismo of technique, alongside their critically minded recombinations of cultural readymades. while philip jeck's performances, installations, and recordings have centred around his arsenal of turntables (at last count, he was up to 180 antique dansette record players, though more normally he performs on two or three, and a minidisc recorder), he isn't terribly interested in the contemporary discourse of turntablism, preferring to coax a haunted impressionism with those tools. however as a calculating improvisor, he shares affinities with the turntable community. once he is in control of the overall context of the music, he leaves much to the spontaneous reaction towards sound at any given moment.

a typical jeck composition moves at an incredibly lethargic pace through a series of looped drone tracks caught in the infinities of multiple locked grooves. as he prefers to use old records on his antique turntables, the inevitable surface noise crackles into gossamer rhythms of pulsating hiss. occasionally, jeck intercedes in his ghostly bricolage with a slowly rotated foreground element - a disembodied voice, a melody, or simply a fragment of non-specific sound - which spirals out of focus through a warm bath of delay. for almost ten years now, jeck has been developing this methodology, building up to stoke, his strongest work to date. its opening passages are on a par with his vinyl coda series, with jeck effortlessly transforming grizzled surface noise into languid atmosphere.but stoke really gets going with the breathtakingly simple construction of pax, upon which jeck overlays an aerated ambient wash with the time-crawling repetition of a single crescendo from an unknown female blues singer. by downpitching her voice from the intended 78 rpm to 16 rpm, he amplifies its emotional tenor by making her drag out her impassioned declarations of misery far longer than is humanly possibly. the effect is just beautiful. philip jeck has always been good, but stoke makes him great. [jim haynes]

$20.08

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november 25th, 2008

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june 4th, 2008

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autofact (usa) #fact 012 lp
touch (uk) #tone 28 lp

“spire live • fundamentalis” double long playing record set

philip jeck - live in st. michel & st. gudula cathedral, brussels (as part of les nuits botaniques) (16:36)
charles matthews - live in st. michel & st. gudula cathedral, brussels (as part of les nuits botaniques) - plays giacinto scelsi: in nomine lucis (11:29)
marcus davidson - live in masthuggs church, göteborg (as part of the gas festival) - standing wave (9:11)
bjnilsen - live in masthuggs church, göteborg (as part of the gas festival) (19:36)
fennesz - live in st. michel & st. gudula cathedral, brussels (as part of les nuits botaniques) (16:36)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "live in st. michel & st. gudula cathedral ..."

double-lp version of material(s) found on the “spire” discs on touch ; specifically the fennesz, bjnilsen, philip jeck, charles matthews (playing scelsi), and marcus davidson numbers ... extremely well-done domestic gatefold edition, laden with copious jon wozencroft imagery ...

autofact press release...

spire live - fundamentalis | autofact 12/touch tone 28
double lp vinyl only
art direction & design by jon wozencroft

spire live - fundamentalis is a collection of live tracks recorded at various spire events held throughout 2005 and 2006. released in association with us label, autofact, touch presents a selection of tracks performed by the main performers of spire: fennesz | philip jeck | bjnilsen | charles matthews | marcus davidson. improvised pieces from fennesz, bjnilsen and philip jeck contrast with a performance by charles matthews of a scored composition by italian composer giacinto scelsi, 'in nomine lucis', and marcus davidson's self-penned 'standing wave', which ends side two with a locked groove. cut to preserve and enhance the bottom end frequencies, fundamentalis is not merely a document; the tension between and within the individual pieces is palpable. fennesz's set "...evokes the rolling centuries in all their pain and beauty, leaving us at once becalmed and energised, but never oppressed under the weight of time." electronics breathe new life not only into the organ, but also into the setting. but successor does not mean replacement. ultimately, it's the majestic sound of the organ, so steeped in centuries of tradition, that one remembers above all else.

spire is one of the most innovative projects around, drawing on the full canon of organ works, from the very first annotation in the robertsbridge codex from the 14th century, to max msp patches and software sampling... with two cd releases and 9 performances in cathedrals and churches throughout europe, spire remains a potent live force in harnessing the sounds of the ages.

$14.55

back in stock as of
june 4th, 2008

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july 14th, 2003

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sub rosa (belgium) #sr 199 cd

“4 parabolic mixes - live recordings” double compact disc set

henri pousseur - first parabolic mix (29:14)
main / robert hampson - second parabolic mix (27:38)
philip jeck - third parabolic mix (27:27)
oval / markus popp - fourth parabolic mix (34:10)

interesting set wherein 3 contemporary electronic musicians of differing backgrounds were asked to compose and perform new constructions of henri pousseur’s 1972 8-channel opus “8 études paraboliques” (itself having been issued in 2001 by sub rosa as a 4cd set intended for partial and complete simultaneous playback). along with a contemporary take by mr. pousseur himself...

sub rosa press release...

4 parabolic mixes
pousseur-main-jeck-oval
sr199
2cd

this double cd proposes 4 unpublished tracks based on "parabolic studies" -(limited edition 4cd box set by henri pousseur / sr174) first one by the pioneer of electronic music henri pousseur followed by robert hampson/ main, philip jeck, oval

transhisorics
in november 2001, we had just published henri pousseur's "8 parabolic studies" ("8 études paraboliques") in a box of 4 cds - these electronic pieces have been created in 1972 at the wdr studios in cologne. the idea was to ask other musicians, of different generations, to attempt a new mix on the basis of these eight studies. the first mix (and not re-mix) was a re-interpretation by henri pousseur himself – this laid the foundation stone of the edifice. contrary to the mixes carried out thirty years ago, these were made digitally. the second mix was robert hampson's - quite nervous of the master's reaction, who was present during the set. robert, who holds an exhaustive knowledge of electronic music from its origins and of all its aspects - even of the more obscure ones -gave a personal but faithful interpretation of pousseur's studies. another degree of alteration was highlighted by philip jeck, who created a massive and powerful set, adding sounds from other sources (which is totally allowed according to pousseur's original concept). and finally, oval - according to the process that is quintessential to his work, markus popp could only produce a piece far removed from its sources; since it is within sound itself that all sonorous source passes through the ovalprocess, thus becoming ovalmusic - that is, music having its very own properties. we already had an unstable timeline that spanned from the original to a radically different piece - engrossing intermediary stages of destructuring. it is precisely these stages that were reconstituted here.

$9.01

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december 8th, 2008

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april 20th, 2004

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electro-acoustic-composition
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printed-matter

the sound projector (uk) #tsp 12 mag

“the sound projector 12th issue 2004” magazine

articles & interviews with those mentioned below
hundreds of record reviews

the sound projector is a steam-powered tank rumbling through the suburbs in the dead of night, hell-bent on sorting all this u-bahn musical activity STRAIGHT. edited, laid out, designed, printed, and almost entirely written by one ed pinsent, a +/- 150~ page issue comes out once a year... the whole thing’s chock with pure information laid out in a practical manner, very much a joy to behold (the enthusiasm mr.p shares for the subject in question comes across in droves). highly recommended for those of you on the rise within the experimental underground ranks and/or the aging denizen who (like me) pines for the era of fanzines (don’t you spend enough damn time in front of your computer screen as it is? i hear paper’s making a comeback).

each issue is divided into a series of themed review columns with titles like “in the art gallery” (modern composition), “atoms of pure noise” (noise), “cakehole activity” (rap and hip-hop), “the crackling esther” (electronica), “the discurator's den” (comps), “the droning ones” (drones), “environmental and documentary recordings” (self-explanatory), “mutating into a microchip” (computer and laptop music), “tape maschines maken” (manipulations of a greasy source sound), “free jazz” , “the gorgeous harmonic”, etc...

as you can gather from that list this comes the closest in concept to exactly what i’m trying to do with this shop here... to simply document and cherry-pick the interesting bits non-denominationally from the trail-vapors of music-at-large. we all need to chip in and buy this guy a cake, the best way for you to contribute would be to simply buy an issue here...

the sound projector press release...

!!a black kammer-konzert for the eyes!! the sound projector music magazine 12th. 2004 has never looked so much like a bunch of violent honeysuckle!.

you want mangled footwear? surprise me good, charlie! sock me kindly in the nose bubba! 158pp! digital printing! fully indexed! el lissitzky parody cover! 158pp - published march 2004

a strange mixture of ill-fitting and frequently bewildering interviews: peter stampfel - the veteran usa songster, philip jeck - modern uk master of the avant-turntable, lasse marhaug - the norwegian god of roaring noise, greg kelley - american underground trumpet nose-blaster and all-around longhair, guilty connector - the young, well-meaning but strangely ineffectual japanese obnoxio-noise merchant, jean-marc foussat - shy algerian makes good with his lips, and through mastery of the vcs3, paul winstanley - murmuring vaguely about his obscure solo electronic / improv projects in new zealand

records reviewed in sound projector categories: american loons, atoms of pure noise, in the art gallery, burning emptiness, the discurator's den, the droning ones, electro-acoustic, the crackling esther, field recordings plus, free 103.9 radio, guitar music, improvised music, japan, rock music, smashings and slicings, sound poetry, we are curious (fellows) - sound art from sweden , world music

$15.13

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march 28th, 2008

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touch (uk) #tone 25 cd

“touch 25” compact disc

bjnilsen - gotland (1:47)
unknown artist - minutiae (0:20)
oren ambarchi - moving violation (8:18)
fennesz - tree (3:21)
unknown artist - quick and cold (0:39)
unknown artist - actual time of arrival (0:29)
chris watson - conversations (2:48)
unknown artist - safely short (0:11)
chris watson - oujela mine (2:24)
mother tongue - rewording (4:04)
peter rehberg - tt1205 (2:53)
tanja orning & hild sofie tafjord - live at blå, oslo (0:36)
pan sonic - slovakian rauta (5:47)
jóhann jóhannsson - tu non mi perderai mai (9:07)
jacob kirkegaard - heavy water (barsebäck) (4:53)
unknown artist - solent rd. (0:55)
ryoji ikeda - untitled #25 (5:41)
rafael toral - glove touch (3:15)
philip jeck - hindquarters (6:10)
unknown artist - atc graph (0:18)
bruce gilbert - sliding off the world (2:02)
mark van hoen - put my trust in you (5:15)
unknown artist - chorale (0:57)
biosphere - spring fever (3:15)
rosy parlane - atlantis (4:03)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "bj nilsen - gotland "

25th anniversary compilation from touch, featuring exclusive material from pretty much the entire active roster.

touch press release...

touch 25
touch # tone 25
release date: 26th june 2006

digipack + 20pp colour booklet

photography & design by jon wozencroft
mastered by denis blackham

touch 25th anniversary edition cd with exclusive tracks from:

oren ambarchi | biosphere | fennesz | bruce gilbert | ryoji ikeda | philip jeck | jóhann jóhannsson | jacob kirkegaard | mother tongue | bjnilsen | pan sonic | rosy parlane | peter rehberg | rafael toral | mark van hoen | chris watson |

there are also several insert recordings and a live edit from hild sofie tafjord & tanja orning
touch was conceived by jon wozencroft in 1981, and released its first cassette magazine 'feature mist' in 1982 [more information on the early cassette releases can be found at www.touchmusic.org.uk/catalogue/first.html].
this compilation was produced initially for the magazine, his voice, to promote new music in the czech and slovak republics. these questions [below] were originally in response to hynek dedecius and pavel klusak at his voice. this completed version of touch25 is now commercially available.

$14.96

back in stock as of
june 22nd, 2007

first in stock on
january 27th, 2006

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touch (uk) #tone 18 cd

“star switch on” compact disc

mika vainio - outside the circle of fire (5:06)
philip jeck - capriole (4:52)
hazard - debugged (4:00)
chris watson - cassarina (2:42)
fennesz - pannonique (3:11)
aer - goat behaviour no.3 (5:57)
biosphere / chris watson - night & dawn / wolves (7:42)

touch press release...

touch # tone 18
cd
8 tracks - 33:34

every two years or so, touch has produced a sampler giving an overview of our current activities and affiliations. following touch 00 (2000), and even prefiguring its release, we wanted to make something that reflected the increasing reliance on the already recorded, whilst suggesting a more lateral approach to the use of source material. this first tendency is manifest everywhere, from tribute bands, to remixes, to updates or clones of earlier sound successes (oasis and blur vs. the beatles and the kinks, and so on). another syndrome has developed whereby sounds are transformed by various software programmes, and what seems to be an innovation soon reveals itself to be generic.

"star switch on" is not an answer to such questions, but it is a reflection of the current obsession with ‘mapping’, ‘storing’ and ‘modulating’. we were interested in what would happen when artists were given a 'carte-blanche' to work with recordings that had a definite and undeniable subject, location and atmosphere - the wildlife sound recordings of chris watson published on “stepping into the dark” (to:27) and “outside the circle of fire” (to:37) – imagining a perverse take on library music, sampling, remix, all inadequate in denoting the soundscapes we hoped such a brief would encourage.

"star switch on" features two new recordings by chris watson, alongside biosphere, fennesz, hazard, mika vainio, philip jeck and aer. chris watson, former member of cabaret voltaire and the hafler trio, has many credits to his name, not least the series of wildlife programmes made by david attenborough to which he contributed. in 2000, “outside the circle of fire” won a distinction for ‘digital music’ at ars electronica. currently, he is on location in kenya working on a new series of the bbc’s “big cat diary”.

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