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Un omaggio al compianto Philip Jeck (1952-2022) con musica, cinema e danza si tiene questa sera a Londra all'Iklectik, con la partecipazione tra gli altri di Chris Watson, Claire M Singer, Jonathan Raisin, John Beaumont e il Liverpool Improvisation Collective. Watson presenterà una speciale versione dal vivo di Oxmardyke (Touch, 2023), l'album al quale Jeck ha lavorato con lui nelle sue ultime settimane di vita. Così ne rammenta la genesi: "In 2017 I was recording along the north bank of the Humber estuary and one morning driving back from Faxfleet I was stopped at the Oxmardyke rail crossing. The gates were down. After setting up a microphone array by the tracks for a passing freight train the signalman shouted an invitation to climb up into the gate box to make some more recordings. Over the following weeks I made several return trips to Oxmardyke and gathered a broad palette of recordings. I discussed the sounds, stories and history of the site with Philip after a show and we were both excited by the potential of making a work together. Philip was drawn to the ancient history of the area from 6th century Anglo-Saxon times to the Knights Templar and how the sounds, rhythms and textures from those periods may still inhabit the contemporary landscape. My thoughts took inspiration from ‘The Signalman’ by Charles Dickens and the painting ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ by Joseph Mallord William Turner. We agreed to share ideas and exchange tracks. Oxmardyke gate box has now passed into history. I hope my contributions may frame Philip’s exceptional work."