JECK, PHILIP - Stoke

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Touch TO:56

Release Year: 2005

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00

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Dritte CD für den englischen turntable-Experimentalisten, der ein Faible für düstere / dronige Stimmungen hat.. das erinnert manchmal gar an alte BIG CITY ORCHESTRA. Obskur und schön zugleich..

“...Of course there is a rhythmical aspect to this dark music, but hey we're talking extensive use of vinyl here. As said none of his sources can be recognized, but I guess they are pretty much old 78 RPM's. Highly minimal music, that is also highly fascinating. The repetitiveness of the music lulls you into a hypnotic state, but one that is different from the minimal techno boys. Fascinating music. (FdW)” [from Vital Weekly 334, August 2002]
"This is his 3rd CD for Touch, after Loopholes and Surf. He has also released a CDR, Live in Tokyo at ICC. All tracks are edits of live performances recorded in Liverpool, Manchester, Osaka, Tokyo and Vienna except Lambing, which was recorded at home in part for a film by Lucy Baldwyn. Stoke was made using Bush, Fidelity and Philips record players, Casio keyboard and Alba portable CD player. The notion of turntablism may be associated with flashy, deck-hopping scratch gymnastics, but the use of the record player as an instrument harks back to a less ostentatious tradition of music making. John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Schaeffer, and James Tenney recognized records and turntable mechanisms as manipulable sound sources. In essence, sampling began with the real-time deployment of gramophones in performance by these artists and academics.." - label description.