Four excerpts from a duo concert by Arthur Clees (drums) and Jan Jelinek (live electronics).
This record contains four tracks taken from a live performance which took place on December 3rd 2021 at the vinyl harvest record store in Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg. The concert was curated by non-profit organisation I am esch twenty too and the label mint.conception.recordings. I am esch twenty too was founded in 2020 as an alternative suggestion to the city of Esch-sur-Alzette being European Capital of Culture 2022 and its role and program. The budget for this concert was generated by the entrance fee to the concert only.
Jan Jelinek and Arthur Clees had never met each other before.
Jan Jelinek is a German electronic musician who also operates under the names
Farben, Gramm, The Exposures and
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples.
His work, which emerged in the early 2000s with pioneering albums such as
Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records and
Textstar (Farben), whose minimalist, glitchy, organic aesthetic and reduction of the rhythmic elements of club music strongly marked the era, has developed into experiments based on sound transformation, dealing with the transformation of sounds, translating source materials from popular music into abstract, reduced textures. Jelinek constructs collages using tiny sound fragments from a wide variety of recording devices: tape recorders, digital samplers, media players and the like. The recordings are processed into repetitive loops that boil the original down to its essentials.
He is the founder of the German record label
Faitiche.
See also
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples;
Farben;
Beispiel (
Frank Bretschneider & Jan Jelinek);
Groupshow (Jan Jelinek,
Hanno Leichtmann &
Andrew Pekler).
Arthur Clees is a percussionist, vibist, composer and producer from Luxembourg, working between jazz, improv and electronic music.
