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01. Philip Jeck - Pilot/Dark Blue Night
02. Philip Jeck - Ark
03. Philip Jeck - Twentyninth
04. Philip Jeck - Dark Rehearsal
05. Philip Jeck - Thirtieth/Pilot Reprise
06. Philip Jeck - The All Of Water
07. Philip Jeck - The Pilot (Among Our Shoals)
08. Philip Jeck - All That's Allowed (Released)
09. Philip Jeck - Chime, Chime (Re-Rung)
ARTIST
TITLE
An Ark For The Listener
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TO 081CD TO 081CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/28/2010

This is Philip Jeck's sixth solo album for Touch. 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 February 24, 2010. It is a meditation on verse 33 of 'The Wreck Of The Deutchsland,' Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem about the drowning on December 7, 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 'Chime, Chime (Re-rung)' was originally made for Musicworks magazine (#104, Summer 09) and 'All That's Allowed (Remix)' is previously unreleased.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."