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'Migration' is the new studio album by one of the most individual composers working in the field of sound art. A stunning soundtrack to a site specific dance that premiered in a space opposite Grand Central Station in spring 2005. Choreographer Noemie Lafrance positioned dancers on window ledges high above the audience inside the Whitney Gallery sculpture court for her dance titled 'Migrations'. The dancers were attached by bungee cord so that they could lean forward into open air and defy gravity - hovering above the audience. Using this context, the music alludes to the world above us, inspired by the migrating birds that stop in Janek's new garden by the Thames. The source material is basically edited and multiplied field recordings from a sequence of countries and continents that janek has visited over the years. Unlike so many soundtrack CD's, Migration was written to be heard as a complete album experience. Like the colourful parakeets in Janek's trees you will certainly want to come back to this experience again and again.