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Philip Jeck studided visual arts at Dartington College of Arts in the 1970's and has been creating sound with record-players since the early 80's. He has worked with many dance and theatre companies and played with muscians such as Jah Wobble, Steve Lacy, Gavin Bryars(a new version of The Sinking Of The Titanic) and Christian Fennesz.
He has released 7 solo CDs, the last "7" on the Touch label, and about to be released is the vinyl only, "Live In Liverpool" and a new CD "Sand"has just been released. His largest work made with Lol Sargent was for 180 record-players, 9 slide-projectors and 2 16mm movie-projectors> It was performed in The Union Chapel, London in 1993 and received a Time Out Performance Award. Vinyl Coda I-III, a commission from Bavarian Radio in 1999 won the Karl Sczuka Foderpreis for Radio Art. He also still works as a visual artist, usually incorporating sound and has shown installations at The Bluecoat, Liverpool, Hayward Gallery, London, The Hamburger Bahnhof Gallery, Berlin ,ZKM, Karlsruhe and The Shanghai Bienalle.

Some reviews:

Ghostly bricolage, looped drones, surface noise and gossamer rhythmns of pulsating hiss: the Liverpool based turtablist crowned a carrer with is best album yet of haunted impressionism coaxed from from vinyl offcuts. We said "Philip Jeck has always been good, But "Stoke" makes him great".(The Wire)

"with each new album, British turntablist Philip Jeck seems to be progressing closer and closer to his own warped conception of a kind of vinyl heaven: a place, perhaps, where forgotten records slowly dissolve into space, leaving only a vapour trail of their music hovering in the atmosphere." (stylus)

Web Links

• www.philipjeck.com