Experimental music touchstone and turntable manipulator Philip Jeck has a new live album out, titled An Ark for the Listener.

Jeck is a turntablist, but not as you know it – the Liverpool-dweller works with old records and turntables salvaged from junk shops and scrap heaps, manipulating them to suit his own purpose and create loop-based music unlike anything else around.

In Jeck’s own words, “a version of An Ark for the Listener was first performed at Kings Place London on 24/02/2010. It is a meditation on verse 33 of ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’, Gerard Manley Hopkins poem about the drowning on December 7th 1875 of five Franciscan nuns exiled from Germany. This CD version was recorded at home in Liverpool and used extracts from live performances over the last 12 months.

“The coda: tracks are remixes of two pieces from Suite: Live in Liverpool. ‘Chime, Chime (Re-rung)’ was originally made for Musicworks magazine (#104, Summer 09) and ‘All That’s Allowed (Released)’ is previously unreleased. All tracks were made using Fidelity record-players, Casio SK1 keyboards, Sony mini-disc recorders, Behringer mixers, Ibanez bass guitar, Boss delay pedal and Zoom bass effects pedal.”

An Ark for the Listener is available now through Touch, and elsewhere on September 20. It comes mastered by Denis Blackham, and the sleeve art shows Miroslaw Balka’s installation at the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, ‘How It Is’.

Tracklist:
1. Pilot/Dark Blue Night 8:47
2. Ark 4:21
3. Twentyninth 2:36
4. Dark Rehearsal 7:36
5. Thirtieth/Pilot Reprise 2:56
6. The All of Water 8:29
7. The Pilot (Among Our Shoals) 4:33
coda:
8. All That’s Allowed (Released) 3:24
9. Chime, Chime (Re-rung) 7:34