http://computersoupjanjelinek.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations-and-edits-tokyo-26092001

What happens when leading German click-house/electronica artist JAN JELINEK (aka FARBEN, GRAMM), and the Japanese trio COMPUTER SOUP, with their unique style of electronified jazz meet? Particles of electronic sound reverberate with each other to create a beautiful, sometimes humurous, and powerful soundscape, that is a must-hear masterpiece album. In association with the japanese label Soup-Disk, Audiosphere is proud to present JAN JELINEK and COMPUTER SOUP's collaboration album entitled 'Improvisations & Edits, Tokyo 09/26/2001'.

JELINEK and POLE came to Japan in September 2001 to perform incredible live sets at Club Yellow in Tokyo, and that is where the improvisations by COMPUTER SOUP and JELINEK used on this record took place. JAN was a fan of COMPUTER SOUP's album 'Toizarasi', and had been fascinated by their sound from before. JAN and COMPUTER SOUP utilized the recording of this improve session by editing them to create the eight tracks (including one secret track) that are on this album. The word improve doesn't mean scattered, confused, and unorganized sounds. Both JAN and COMPUTER SOUP had developed a mutual sonic understanding for each other in the short span of this improvisation session, which enabled them to create many unforgettable phrases and rhythms in the performance. These are sounds that could not have been possibly made by one person sitting in front of a computer, and that is why there are so many unpredictable changes and rhythmic elements which make this such an organic record. Be ready to be pulled into a world of sound that virtually transcends the passing of time.

Faitiche is happy to be releasing the album Improvisations And Edits, Tokyo 26.09.2001 on vinyl for the first time. For the original 2002 CD on Soup-Disk and Sub Rosa (Audiosphere), Jan Jelinek and the Japanese trio Computer Soup (Satoru Hori – trumpet, Osamu Okubo - toys & electronics, Kei Ikeda - toys & electronics) presented eight tracks all recorded one afternoon in the trio’s living room in Tokyo. They are excerpts from a joint group improvisation that subsequently underwent rudimentary editing, on which Jelinek and Computer Soup worked separately.

Jelinek met the three musicians at his first concert in Japan in 2001, at Tokyo’s Yellow club, where Computer Soup performed as the support act. Delighted by their free improvisation on pocket-sized electronic toys, trumpet and oscillators, he arranged to meet Hori, Okubo and Ikeda a few days later for a session at their apartment. The resulting three-hour recording, made on their living room floor, formed the basis for Improvisations and Edits. A few days later, Jelinek returned to Berlin. Over the following months, they separately chose passages from the recording that were then edited and assembled into an album.

Formed in Tokyo in 1996 as a quintet (including Shusaku Hariya and Daisuke Oishi), Computer Soup began by performing with acoustic instruments on the streets of Shibuya. Ikeda und Okubo soon switched instruments, and from then on the group’s minimalistic but densely woven sound was defined by electronic toys, oscillators and Satoru Hori’s trumpet. Their first album was released in 1997 on the Japanese label Soup Disk. Eight further releases followed.


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Neojazzowa płyta roku! Rzecz równie udana jak sławetne "LoopFindingJazzRecords". Aczkolwiek przynosi spojrzenie na mikrojazz z innej perspektywy. Album jest efektem jamu, jaki odbył w Tokio Jelinek z japońskim Computer Soup. Trio - trąbka.......
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