JEFF KEEN

Singular release by painter & film maker Jeff Keen. A great artist record full of strange electroacoustic sounds. When I first saw some of the Jeff Keen films I didn't know quite what had hit me. He seemed to be the missing like between pop art, surrealism, abstract expressionism, Cocteau, Warhol, Jack Kirby, Picasso, and loads of other well known artists all at the same time. I started to discuss the idea of issuing some of his soundtrack recordings with the BFI. And when the BFI issued their remarkable 4 DVD set of Jeff Keen films called GAZWRX there was even an insert stating that his film music will be coming out on Trunk Records. Slowly we crawled towards this mighty goal, but after Jeff died I started meeting with his daughter and talking about the possibilities of an interesting Jeff Keen album. On a visit to her home she revealed a box of cassettes that Jeff had produced in the 1980s using the equipment in his studio; a mic, tape recorder, Atari computer, ZX Spectrum computer, a Binson echo unit and some home made instruments. The sounds on these cassettes could only have been made by Jeff Keen and seemed to explode out of nowhere, just like his art. (label info)