12.12.2021
Temple of Faitiche (December 2021)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is Mexican multimedia artist/performer and DJ Daniela Huerta - on air Dec 24th (!), 13:00-14:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Daniela Huerta: Her Feedback, 2021
01.12.2021
Mix by ASUNA (II)
A new 0,5 hour mix by Japanese sound artist ASUNA - this time for the faitiche journal. more
ASUNA & Jan Jelinek live, Tokyo 2017, photo by Takehito Goto
ASUNA - Mix II (2021)
27.11.2021
farben: textstar+
Comming soon (Spring 2022): textstar+ by farben (faitback12). On textstar+ Jan Jelinek brings together a track selection from the CMYK series, four EPs he released between 1999 and 2002 under the pseudonym farben. more
Artwork (front cover, b/w converted) for textstar+ (faitback12)
farben: T.Microsystems (Remaster), (faitback12)
02.11.2021
Inakatei, Kyoto (2)
Akai MPC-1000 Sampler improvisation, based on recorded interviews with guests at the Inakatei soba restaurant. Side work from a "report" on the restaurant, which was the author’s favorite lunch spot during his stay in Kyoto in 2014.
Inakatei Soba Noodle Restaurant, photos taken from the restaurant's website
Jan Jelinek: SobaVoices, 2014 (previously unreleased)
27.10.2021
Jonathan Scherk
When department stores dream ... Jonathan Scherk continues with his acoustic maelstroms of the consumer world. An album with a collection of his new audio collages is planned and on the shelfs in 2022.
Ferdinand Kriwet: Yester 'n' Today, 2011
Jonathan Scherk: untitled (Nr.11), 2021
17.10.2021
Temple of Faitiche (October 2021)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is Japanese sound artist ASUNA - on air Oct 29th, 13:00-14:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
ASUNA's 100 KEYBOARDS performance (film still, watch) Kanazawa 2021
01.10.2021
Trip Shrubb: Trewwer, Leud un Danz
Faitiche is excited to present, for the first time on vinyl, a selection from the 84-track (!!) remix project originally released in 2013 as a three-tape set by Trip Shrubb aka kptmichigan aka Michael Beckett. Beckett remixed his way through Harry Smith’s famous Anthology of American Folk Music. more
Artwork (front cover) for Trewwer, Leud Un Danz
Trip Shrubb: Dat Luit van Freverts Hoff (faitiche25), 2021
22.09.2021
Clive Holden & Jan Jelinek: Seascape (diptych)
Watch a preview (excerpt) for an A/V-installation by Clive Holden & Jan Jelinek, working title: Seascape (diptych). The artists’ limitations were to work independently, while trading files back-and-forth across the Atlantic, and to solely use found material from John Huston’s Moby Dick. More
Clive Holden & Jan Jelinek: Seascape (diptych), 2021 (b/w film still)
12.09.2021
Ambianta VI
Another gem from Nikolaienko's archive - previously unreleased.
Studio Nikolaienko, photo by D. Nikolaienko 2021
Nikolaienko: Ambianta VI, 2021
31.08.2021
Temple of Faitiche (September 2021)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is Brussels' musician & coast connoisseur Roméo Poirier - on air Sept 3rd, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Roméo Poirier: Hotel Nota (sferic, 2020)
12.08.2021
The Raw and The Cooked LP
Faitiche is delighted to release an album version of the radio piece Vom Rohen und Gekochten (The Raw and The Cooked) originally composed and produced by Jan Jelinek for the state broadcaster SWR2. The album The Raw and The Cooked brings together five sound collages that deal with the consistency of material and its mutability. Official release: Sept. 17th 2021. more
Artwork (front cover) for The Raw and The Cooked
Jan Jelinek: The Raw and The Cooked (II), faitiche24 (2021)
10.07.2021
Temple of Faitiche (July 2021)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is multi instrumentalist Michael Beckett aka Trip Shrubb aka kptmichigan - on air July 23rd, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream. Last show before summer break!
Trip Shrubb, Dörentrup 2021
02.07.2021
Sounds for a bell tower (Klangturm Hamburg-Veddel)
In the tower of the Lutheran Immanuel church in Hamburg, the bells no longer ring; now sounds come from loudspeakers. The sound programmes by 12 artists (Andrew Pekler, Frank Bretschneider a.o.) serve like chimes to signal the time. Read more
Immanuelkirche, photo A. Pekler (2021)
Andrew Pekler: bell, 1pm (2021)
01.07.2021
janjelinek.com
A new website is online - janjelinek.com is an archive for all works by Jan Jelinek. Check here
https://janjelinek.com
10.06.2021
GES Radio Portrait
Radio special about GES and Curd Duca (1 hour for each artist) at German WDR - subject is SAMPLING. Listen/stream here.
Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samplings: Take you sources and sample them in public space!, 2009
08.06.2021
Andrew Pekler live at Frameless
Video of Andrew Pekler's A/V performance for the Frameless series is now archived on their website. Watch here.
Andrew Pekler and a crystal lamp, performing live in Berlin, April 16th 2021.
06.06.2021
Helmut Schmidt plays Bach (Marimba Version)
Found in the archives: GES's Marimba Version of Helmut Schmidt plays Bach (2010), previously unreleased.
Original artwork for faitiche11, 2013
GES: Helmut Schmidt plays Bach (Marimba Version), faitiche 2010
22.05.2021
Temple of Faitiche (May 2021)
Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is sound/composition/performance-Gesamtkunstwerk Felix Kubin - on air May 28th, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Felix Kubin plays Dragonflies, Berlin 2020 (photo by U. Siegfriedt)
15.05.2021
Uomo Di Mondo, live at Space Textures 2020
Live version of Uomo Di Mondo by Nikolaienko, recorded at Space Textures festival, September 5th 2020 in Riga, Latvia.
Nikolaienko, live in Riga 2020
Nikolaienko: Uomo Di Mondo (live version), Riga 2020
12.05.2021
Phantom Islands
Andrew Pekler and Kiwi Stefanie Menrath's Phantom Islands sound and map installation will be viewable from May 27th - 30th 2021 in Barcelona at MUEC – Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món as part of the Etnoscòpic Festival.
Phantom Islands, photo by Andrew Pekler, 2018
01.05.2021
Sven-Åke Johansson & Jan Jelinek, live at Moers Festival 2020
Sven-Åke Johansson & Jan Jelinek, puls-plus-puls, edition moers. The live recording of the performance at the Moers Festival 2020 is now as album (LP/CD) available. Buy/order at the Moers Festival shop. Official release: May 21st 2021. The concert is also still as film stream available here (Vimeo).
puls-plus-puls, edition moers (album artwork), 2021
20.04.2021
Andrew Pekler: Sounds from Phantom Islands & Tristes Tropiques
Andrew Pekler's fauxotica excursions Tristes Tropiques and Sounds from Phantom Islands are back in stock. Official release: May 14th 2021
Artwork for Tristesse Tropiques (Andrew Pekler: film stil, 2016)
Andrew Pekler: Mirror Structures (Mirrored), 2016 (faitiche14)
12.04.2021
Sparkling Water
Sparkling water, captured during breakfast buffet at Hotel an der Oper, Düsseldorf 2010.
Hotel an der Oper, 2010 (Series Symmetrie aus Sicht der Gastronomie)
Jan Jelinek: Carbon Düsseldorf, 2010
08.04.2021
Jan Jelinek: Hyperion (A/V Installation), 2020
Jan Jelinek: Hyperion (4-channel composition & video installation), commission for Donaueschinger Musiktage 2020. Technical assistance: Karl Kliem. Watch YouTube video (not listed) here.
Museum Art.Plus, Hyperion (slide show / installation view), Donaueschingen 2020
26.03.2021
Temple of Faitiche (April 2021)
faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is electroacoustic composer Bérangère Maximin - on air April 2nd, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Bérangère Maximin: Land Of Waves, Karl Records 2020
01.03.2021
Jan Jelinek & Stefan Schneider
Excerpt of a live recording on the occasion of Bereicherung - a concert/lecture/performance series curated by Stefan Schneider and Thorsten Nolting.
Rundscheibe Nr. XIII, Ferdinand Kriwet - leserattenfaenge, 1965
Jan Jelinek & Stefan Schneider: Live improvisation (excerpt), May 12th 2020 Düsseldorf
12.02.2021
Silver Circle
R.I.P. Chick Corea. Silver Circle by Jan Jelinek - based on a sample by ... guess who? Originally released in 2002 on ~scape, album title: Instrumentals - Staedtizism 3, various artists.
Käthe Kruse: Ich sehe (Schlagzeilen und Tonspuren, Edition Distanz), 2020
Jan Jelinek: Silver Circle, 2002
07.02.2021
Rings (faitiche23)
Fortunately for us, Dmytro Nikolaienko agreed to open up the jewellery boxes of his tape-loop archive for his debut album on Faitiche. What came to light was a collection of dreamy glittering gems, masterfully presented using the compositional possibilities of analogue tape machines. Release: April 16th 2021. more
artwork (excerpt) for Nikolaienko: Rings, faitiche23, photo by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Nikolaienko: Ambianta I (faitiche23), 2021
01.02.2021
ICE Compositions
On the occasion of the vinyl rerelease of 1+3+1 (Triosk meets Jan Jelinek, faitback05, release: April 9th 2021), Jan Jelinek's ICE Compositions are being made available digitally (remastered version) for the first time. more
Faitiche: Darwin
Jan Jelinek: A1. ICE 695 (ICE Compositions, faitback11), 2002
25.01.2021
Temple of Faitiche (February 2021)
faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. Next show's guest is musician and label founder Nikolaienko (label Muscut & Shukai) - on air February 5th, 14:00-15:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Nikolaienko: The Sounds Of Pseudoscience (Muscut 3, 2015)
06.01.2021
Orecchio di Dionisio (II.)
The limestone cave, situated in the Sicilian town of Syracuse, 65 meters deep and laid out in ancient times, has exceptional acoustics: A person standing in the cave's entrance can hear every word whispered deep down inside it. more
Orecchio di Dionisio, Syracusa Italy, 2018
Jan Jelinek: Orecchio di Dionisio (II), 2021