Andrew Pekler – Cover Versions

Label: Senufo Editions
Catalog#: SENUFO040LP
Release date: 03-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 65 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Electronic

Tracklist:
01 Alpine Panorama
02 Candles
03 Silhouette Couple
04 Seascape_Ship
05 Still Life
06 Silhouette Couple (On The Beach)
07 Sunset_Sunrise
08 Roses On Piano
09 Abstract
10 Close-Up

*Limited Edition of 300 – Each copy come with an individual / unique cover made from recycled sleeves* Sensitively warm and abstract radiophonic/collage bloopery from Andrew Pekler – a member of Groupshow with Jan Jelinek and an artist with previous form for Dekorder, ~scape and Kranky. His ‘Cover Versions’ is an enchanting exercise in sampling/plunderphonic collage techniques, injecting frayed and dilapidated samples with new life in delicate and effervescent ecologies. I guess the title is meant to be taken on more than one level: at its literal meaning, the original source material is transformed into abstract versions of the songs they were born from, while on a physical, concrète level – one perhaps even more relevant to this album – these small fragments of sound feel ripped, scraped and extracted from their homes to make versions in the dub sense of the phrase, all decayed and dusty ghosts of shellac and vinyl displaced into a trans-dimensional digital/analogue ether. But while that might infer something darker, the sounds and the way they’re used implies a woozier, dreamier effect very close to Jan Jelinek’s recent Faitiche outings or the rarified recordings of Senufo Editions boss Giuseppe Ielasi’s Bellow recordings with Nicopla Ratti, gently blowing warm, human life into finely smashed particles of exotica, easy listening and library electronics.