Veröffentlicht
Tue, Feb 9, 2010, 15:00
- The prolific Berlin-based techno and experimental producer has teamed up with Japanese vibraphone expert Masayoshi Fujita for his latest album.
Jan Jelinek will continue to showcase his fondness for collaboration on his forthcoming album with Masayoshi Fujita, AKA El Fog.
Fujita cites his first musical passion as Bon Jovi, and even found himself making a pilgrimage to poodle rock's spiritual home of the USA for a year before moving back to Japan to study film. He's now based in Berlin, producing downtempo and ambient material as El Fog that bears no resemblance to his hair metal origins. One of his trademarks is the modification of his instruments, taking his vibraphone and placing strips of foil and metal to affect the reverberations made when it is struck. He continues to experiment with these techniques on Bird, Lake, Objects, which will see a release on Jelinek's own Faitiche imprint.
The pair have combined to create a spacious and atmospheric piece of work, with Jelinek himself commenting that, "these tracks seem rather introspective, cautious even – and reflect the recording situation: deliberately pared down, reduced to a single microphone in space and a separate track for all other instruments, each movement and action is chronicled by the treacherous mike." This means that aural artifacts such as fire engines, footsteps and street noise have leaked into the final mix, with both musicians incorporating the live ambient sounds into their improvisational playing.
Tracklist
01. Undercurrent
02. Workshop For Modernity
03. I'll Change Your Life
04. Waltz (A Lonely Crowd)
05. Stripped To RM
06. IA_AI
Faitiche will release Bird, Lake, Objects on March 26th, 2010.