rpm, by Philip Jeck

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of rpm, Oxmardyke, Resistenza, Stardust, Vinyl Coda lll-lV, Vinyl Coda l-ll, Arcade, Iklectik, and 11 more. , and , .

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1.	Fennesz - Dancer
2.	Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck - 1 Piste
3.	Chris Watson - Saltmarshe Station
4.	Rosy Parlane - Stoked
5.	Cris Cheek - Clocking Off
6.	Philip Jeck & Claire M Singer - Sketch One
7.	Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck - 4 Piste
8.	Faith Coloccia - Pleione
9.	Philip Jeck - Mono 07:36	info
10.	David Sylvian & Hildur Guðnadóttir - I Measure Every Grief I Meet
11.	Philip Jeck & Claire M Singer - Sketch Two
12.	Jah Wobble & Deep Space - Jeck, Drums, 2 Basses
13.	Drums Off Chaos - Keep in Touch
14.	Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck - 8 Piste
15.	Chandra Shukla - The Ark Has Closed
16.	Jana Winderen & Philip Jeck - Pilots

about

With rpm, we wanted to join some of the dots of Philip's life and involve many other collaborators, early and more recent. Fennesz was a friend and kindred spirit on the same label. Claire M Singer formed a new chemistry and partnership and although their plans must now take a different form, Mary found some sketches Philip had laid out using Claire's organ recordings, for further development. Faith Coloccia & Philip had already released Stardust on Touch in 2021. Their live performance together at 2220arts + archives, Los Angeles in March 2022 celebrating Touch's 40th anniversary had to be shelved. And in September of that year Iklectik hosted a memorable tribute night with live work from Chris Watson, Liverpool Improvisation Collective, Claire M Singer and others – most of all a dedicated audience who knew and felt that this was a future event and not the end of the story.

A work in progress at the time of Philip's death, Oxmardyke, a project with Chris Watson, saw the light of day as Touch Tone 83 in early 2023 – working on recordings Chris had sent, Philip with laptop perched on hospital bed, almost to the end. There were other artists who wanted to actively contribute further, whether in performance or contributing to this album: Jana Winderen had already sent Philip her recordings of pilot whales and the track you hear was finished in March 2022. Cris Cheek was in Slant with Philip and Sianed Jones, who also sadly left us that same year – their work together predates Philip's with Touch. Philip owed much in his early years of composing and playing to his collaboration with dancers, theatre and film makers – in particular, a 10 year working and performing partnership with Laurie Booth, Yip Yip Mix and the 20th Century, which toured widely during the 1980s and early 90s. An early audio visual work, Vinyl Requiem (1993) was created with visual artist Lol Sargent, using 180 record players, nine slide projectors and two 16mm projectors producing a live performance on a huge scale. Vinyl Requiem wasn't exactly about the end of vinyl, but the dawn of some- thing else regarding sound recording and music. It was never a final statement but a testament to the work to come.

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releases November 15, 2024

Compiled & edited by Mary Prestidge, Mike Harding & Jon Wozencroft
Photography & design by Jon Wozencroft
Mastered by Denis Blackham

Bonus track: Philip Jeck & Liverpool Improvisation Collective – Makeshift

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Philip Jeck Liverpool, UK

Philip Jeck (1952-2022) worked with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops turning them to his own purposes. He really did 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. ... more

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discography

rpm

Nov 2024
Oxmardyke

Jun 2023
Resistenza

Nov 2022
Stardust

May 2021

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