Groupshow is a trio made up of Jan Jelinek, Hanno Leichtmann and Andrew Pekler. The project grew out of Jelinek’s 2006 Kosmischer Pitch album tour through Europe, Japan and North America. The album Kosmischer Pitch was Jan Jelinek’s subtle eulogy to 70s cosmic music, and though he constructed the album from loops and layers, the outcome holds plenty of allusions to this era of sound blurring, flow, and musical haziness. Without any specific references to place or time, the album taps into the cosmic search for transcendental moments, and the spirit of electronic music pioneers on a quest for liberation. Jelinek took these principles to the stage: not as a laptop solo artist, but together with guitarist Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann on drums.

Groupshow is a loose arrangement of people and sounds that defy fixed arrangements. Jelinek tends to use a computer, effects boxes and a mixer to produce his unmistakeable looping electronics, Hanno Leichtmann is mostly on drums, cymbals and synthetic drum pads, and Pekler plays guitar with heavy emphasis on the effects.