Published
Mon, Apr 1, 2019, 14:21
- The German artist is also reissuing his 1999 LP Personal Rock, released under the name Gramm.
Jan Jelinek has just released a new album, Signals Bulletin, made with Japanese musician Asuna.
Jelinek met Asuna, real name Naoyuki Arashi, after both artists played at a museum in Arashi's hometown of Kanazawa. Arashi is known for a prepared piano-style approach to the organ, meticulously cutting pieces of tape to exact lengths in order to constantly hold down keys then removing and altering the tape to change the chords.
In the liner notes for Signals Bulletin, Jelinek calls Arashi's style "a music without breaks."
"I was unsure how my loops made using modular synthesizers and live sampling fitted here," he adds, "until I realized the role I had to take in this duet: I would provide the rhythmically pulsating foundation over which his dense continuums could unfold."
The LP is out out on Jelinek's Faitiche label, which also just reissued his deep house-leaning 1999 album Personal Rock. It was the only record Jelinek made under the alias Gramm, and was originally released on Move D's label, Source.
Listen to "Relief, Pt.1" from Signals Bulletin
Listen to "Type Zwei" from Personal Rock.
Tracklist
Signals Bulletin
01. Relief, Pt.1
02. Pulsating Primary Structure
03. Fountain
04. How A Spiral Works
05. Blinking Of Countless Lines
Personal Rock
01. Legends / Nugroove TM
02. St. Moritz
03. Type Zwei
04. Non-Relations
05. Ment
06. 70gr
07. Type Eins
08. Siemens.Bioport
Signals Bulletin and Personal Rock are out now via Faitiche.