“This is quite a diverse release, with quite a bit of spoken word of varying sources and perhaps much like a newspaper has many voices. Both music and visuals make up an austere yet beautiful package.”

Vital Weekly (FDW)

About
Janek Schaefer trained as an Architect at the Royal College of Art, where he developed his focus on the relationship between sound, space and place. He exhibits and performs worldwide, from The Tate Modern to The Sydney Opera House, and is a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University. The Bluecoat Gallery exhibited a Retrospective of his
career in 2009, is represented by the Agency gallery, London, and has released over 25 albums. He Lives and works in Walton-on-Thames, England.
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Epilogue 003 ‘Currents’ designed by Bas Mantel accompanies ‘Janek Schaefer - World News’. Epilogue ‘Currents’ is a typographical presentation, a poster-paper of claustrophobic revelations, silent confessions and tormenting nightmares. Its source material is taken from several International newspapers over the period May 03 / May 10 -2014.

Released
released November 1, 2015

Running time
21 minutes

Tracks

- This World
Featuring Schaefer’s friend Danny Lavie in Tel Aviv, listening to the car radio describing the escalating conflict there.

- Our World
Missiles fly in both directions right over Danny’s home early one morning.

- Imagine a World
Voiceover soundtrack on 10″ vinyl taken from the ‘Imagine a World . . . ‘ installation. The Avatar vocal was created using a text to speech synthesis system. Text created from quotations, and Schaefer’s own writing.

- Another World
Second part of the ‘Imagine a World . . . ‘ installation soundtrack.

JANEK SCHAEFER - WORLD NEWS

Catalogue
REV006

Formats
MCD + newspaper

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