Philip Jeck's Suite is a vinyl release which is comprised of various edits and mixes captured from recordings of his live concerts over a period of time. This method of composition is also how he compiles his CDs, reworking and adding new elements where he thinks fit. Following on from an active period of concert performances (which has included, for example, a live appearance at York Minster as part of the Spire project) Suite finds Jeck very much on top of his game. Immediately the music plunges into a deep pool of vinyl crackle and we're instantly submerged in that familiar Jeck sound world. You'll hear snatches of what sounds like a gamelan ensemble tucked away in there, vast washes of old string recordings, and more industrial, sculpted noise textures too, all of which get filtered through a toolbox of disheveled, grainy electronics. Although Jeck's music has always had that 'phantom radio broadcast' feel to it - as if you're hearing some lost and jumbled shortwave sounds drifting across the ether - there's a real coherence to this set, and while he does have a tendency to glance across music derived from a variety of disparate cultures, his craft is executed seamlessly and with a real instinct for compositional cogency. This album seems to place emphasis on the footprints left by Jeck's working processes over and above the importance of the sound sources themselves, and the entire set feels like a thoroughly abstract, almost ghostly presence.