Farben: Textstar+

Faitiche Back 12 (Do LP) - € 30
Reissue compilation of Jan Jelinek's seminal 1999-2002 Farben works - Tip! (w/ download code)

"A Polaroid. Still life with tangled leads and consumer electronics, late twentieth century. Black and various shades of dirty white are the dominant non-colours. The image’s spatial depth remains diffuse, the links between its elements speculative. A note stuck to the wall (a legend, perhaps, or an all-explaining blueprint in text form?) is impossible to decipher. You can’t see what connects the picture’s signs. You have to hear it.

farben says: Every sound is a text. A bearer of meaning in search of a reader. Hoping the ideas inscribed in its autonomous existence will be understood as intended. While its beauty lies precisely in misunderstanding, in reading the coded message a new way every time. A thousand colours of sound, a thousand different ways to hear, to see, to understand.

On textstar+ Jan Jelinek brings together the material from the CMYK series, four EPs he released between 1999 and 2002 under the pseudonym farben (the German word for both colours and paints), on a vinyl double LP for the first time. The selection of tracks has been remastered from the original tapes, joined by two additional pieces that appeared on compilations during the same period. Another new element is the Polaroid, showing the origins of a world: Jelinek’s home studio in Berlin at the time. (...)"

Tracklisting:

Live At The Sahara Tahoe, 1973

Love To Love You Baby

Muskeln

Suntouch Edit

As Long As There's Love Around

FF

Beautone

So Much Love

T.Microsystems

Raute

Silikon

Love Oh Love