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- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – What Kind Of World (Threnos)
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Before (Nemesis)
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Forever
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – 87BPM
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Deja Vu
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Modul
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – All One
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Window (Elpis)
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Together
- Alan & Jan (Portable & Jan Jelinek) – Progress
"Take me, I’m yours" is the first collaboration album between Alan Abrahams and Jan Jelinek. Released through the latter’s faitiche, it builds upon multi-layered vocal sketches by the former. The Paris-based artist, primarily known for his work as Portable and Bodycode, supplied Jelinek with multi-layered song sketches that the German artist subjected to a rigorous process of manipulation, excavating the ambiguities of the original material and transforming its rhythms into subtle pulses. "Take me, I’m yours" is neither a typical Abrahams record nor a classic Jelinek album—it is something third, mediating between the physicality of the voice and the abstraction of electronic sound design.
The two had crossed paths before really getting to know each other after Abrahams invited Jelinek to play at one of his Süd Electronic parties. The idea of a collaboration emerged slowly. “It started as an experiment, and over the past few years grew from a few tracks into this album,” says Abrahams. He describes recording the basic material as a “tantalizing” process, not knowing how Jelinek would transform his material, some of which was based on wordless chanting, while other tracks were working with lyrical content. However, their mutual trust allowed Jelinek to remove the harmonies, radically reduce the rhythms, and concentrate on Abrahams’ voice.
Jelinek heard something “fragile” in this voice, “moments of doubt and dark premonitions.” He points to Forever as an example. “Alan’s original song reminded me of classic vocal house, but his voice seemed to almost break,” he says. “This contradiction made the piece even bigger, because we hear a singer in the moment of an awakening.” He further accentuated such tensions through arrhythmic synth modulations and time-stretching algorithms, while also adding concrete sounds from a variety of sources. With its dedication to both transforming and amplifying the emotional qualities hidden within Abrahams’ pieces, "Take me, I’m yours" functions as a dialogue between those two singular artists.
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