Bleep

It’s been five, long years since the last full LP from masterful sound-artist and loop-pioneer Philip Jeck. If you’re new to this name, now is the time to get acquainted. Jeck uses a primitive rig of junk-shop record players, Casio keyboards, Ibanez bass guitar, MiniDisc, Ibanez and Zoom effects pedals, assorted percussion fed into a Behringer mixer. With these tools he carves a burnished sound of arcing loop-trails, ambient sludge and transcendent drone: gleaming like dew on Autumn’s morning grass. This record is apparently inspired by Jeck’s reading of American author Marilynne Robinson who wrote about the importance of imagination to communal progress, love of humanity, and deep existential thinking. A divine double record and, as usual, a handsome Touch presentation that houses it.