Jonathan Scherk & Daniel Majer
It’s Counterpart
Faitiche
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2019
Includes Instant Download
LP
17.99
fait-19LP / Includes Download Code
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Tracklist
1Jonathan Scherk – Untitled 1:17
2Jonathan Scherk – Touch 2:24
3Jonathan Scherk – Sure of You 2:03
4Jonathan Scherk – Gulp for the Whole 2:12
5Jonathan Scherk – Way of Saying 1:49
6Jonathan Scherk – Wristed 2:52
7Jonathan Scherk – Get a Little s 1:05
8Jonathan Scherk – Wince 2:07
9Daniel Majer – Little Faith 1:29
10Daniel Majer – Something There Somewhere 2:18
11Daniel Majer – Piaget 2:49
12Daniel Majer – Recognize 2:07
13Daniel Majer – Mourning Tide 0:58
14Daniel Majer – She Barely Spoke 3:20
15Daniel Majer – Halls 3:06

Faitiche welcomes two young artists from Canada: Jonathan Scherk and Daniel Majer hail from the post-rock and experimental scene in Vancouver, where they shared a studio for several years. In artistic terms, too, there is a surprising coherence: on 'It's Counterpart', their solo work naturally blends to create a joint album, making it hard to distinguish between their contributions. Majer describes his part as a shadow-like reflection to Scherk’s brightly meandering collages. The album’s title refers to this: 'It's Counterpart' presents two solo artists who have met their match in one another.

Scherk and Majer produce contemporary sound collages on samplers, laptops etc. using raw material drawn from YouTube videos, field recordings, cassettes, and LPs from the dollar bin – the kind of rightly forgotten obscurities that have long since lost their audience, if they ever had one. In the hands of Scherk and Majer, they become abstract sound objects. The two artists don't concern themselves with the material's original context – the sound's character is most important. This sets them apart from other collage artists. Their work might be called a contemporary upgrade of the classic tape collage: here, channelling a wealth of information is the main focus. So are these collages that trigger neither associations nor contexts? Au contraire! 'It's Counterpart' is like an overheated centrifuge whose spinning extracts and joins together all of the harmonies ever pressed on vinyl. Melodies run amok.