EINZELNE by Jack M. Booth

Booth is an Irish-Australian contemplative, poet, writer, painter, composer, songwriter, and musician. Raised in Perth, Western Australia, he holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Liverpool, focusing on Nietzsche and Paul Klee, and is a PhD candidate in Art History at Humboldt Universität Berlin. Booth was previously the principal songwriter in a duo with Eleni Poulou (The Fall, Mark E. Smith) and played viola in The Midnight Audience.

After living in Berlin from 2017 to 2024, Booth moved to the forests of Western Massachusetts, USA, in 2025 to live reclusively in nature, focusing on family, work and contemplation.

Shaped by isolationism and a rejection of societal ills, his work draws on Buddhist teachings, German and English Romanticism, and the philosophies of Nietzsche, Stirner, Heidegger, Weil, and Guénon. Musically, he is inspired by Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin, Schubert, Bartók, Arvo Pärt, Rautavaara, John Fahey, Jackson C. Frank, Roy Harper, Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs, and the British Folk Revival. He primarily plays 6 and 12 string guitar, viola, organ, and shakuhachi.

With 13 albums in three years, Booth’s Home Recordings series and studio album EINZELNE are born of solitude, offering a stark opposition to the distractions of late modernity—and stand as a necessary counter to spectacle culture and aesthetic capitalism through tradition.

DREAM + DEED

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PP054

Rhode Island skull sounds.