09.03.2023
Corridors (II)
Second contribution to a series about the eventlessness & clandestine acoustics of hotel corridors. Each part of the series portrays a certain corridor / presents a processed recording from Jan Jelinek's archive. The second post introduces a corridor at The Westin, Hamburg - recorded in 2022.
Again - other proportions, another place, but still a hotel corridor: Chicago 2011
Jan Jelinek: Corridor II, 2023
21.02.2023
Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk
Second album announcement for 2023: Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk - Exq I (faitiche 30), release: March 3rd 2023. Exq I is a monumental 36 minutes track, recorded in 2010 by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk - mainly known under their 100Records moniker. The work effortlessly intermingling dub, drone, field recording and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo’s jazz-inspired approach to improvisation. more
Old maestros at work: Muellie Messiah (Budde) and Punk Not Punk (Osti), year unknown.
10.02.2023
Social Engineering
German SWR2 premiers a new bilingual (DE, EN) radio work by Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering. A 33-minute voice and sound collage dedicated to the hysteria of phishing emails. Premiere: February, 25th 2023. Available afterwards as free stream & download for 18 months here. more
Unfortunately still unchanged: A screenshot from last year's mail box.
Jan Jelinek: Social Engineering (excerpt), 2023
08.02.2023
Temple of Faitiche (February 2023)
Time for a change at Faitiche's bimonthly radio show on LYL. From now on it's one hour = one artist portrait. Jan Jelinek portraits drummer and composer Hanno Leichtmann for the first half, Hanno Leichtmann responses with his Gravest Hits of Avantgarde mix for the second. Leichtmann curated and installed a jukebox with 50 lathe cut 7“ singles - a personal selection of modern classical music, commissioned for the 100th edition of Donaueschinger Musiktage - on air February 24th, 13:00-14:00. Available afterwards as Mixcloud stream.
Hanno Leichtmann: Gravest Hits, Donaueschingen 2021.
13.01.2023
Corridors (I)
faitiche Journal / Jan Jelinek starts a new series about the eventlessness & clandestine acoustics of hotel corridors. Each part of the series will portray a certain corridor / present a processed recording from Jelinek's archive. The first part begins with a corridor at Fujisawa Hotel, Kyoto - recorded in 2006.
Actually a much more spacious corridor than at Hotel Fujisawa: Chicago 2011
Jan Jelinek: Corridor I, 2023
09.01.2023
Roméo Poirier: Eli Keszler Remix + 1
Coming this Friday, 13th (!): Roméo Poirer - Eli Keszler Remix + 1 (digital only release). Roméo Poirier adds another track to his last year's album Living Room: Les encombres is anything but what the title suggests. A compelling addition to Roméo's mysterious cabinet of curiosities. Eli Keszler remixes Statuario - the album's opening track - and transforms it into an atmospheric setting that seems to have sprung from a magical vaudeville act. more
Roméo Poirer: Eli Keszler Remix + 1 (faitiche28+), artwork by Tim Tetzner, 2023
Roméo Poirier: Les encombres (faitiche 28+), 2023
05.01.2023
Groupshow: Greatest Hits
2023 starts with an album announcement (up to six more will follow this year): Groupshow - Greatest Hits (faitiche 29), release: Jan 27th 2023. The ten tracks on this first vinyl album by Groupshow (Hanno Leichtmann, Andrew Pekler, Jan Jelinek), recorded between 2005 and 2018, document concert recordings and studio improvisations by the trio. more
Groupshow live at Radialsystem, Berlin 2019, photo by Juliane Schütz
Groupshow: Music For A Plank Press (faitiche 29), 2023