EINZELNE

“…and he told me the names of the stars and how Jupiter was a thousand times larger than our world, and that the other twinkling stars were suns that had worlds rolling around them; and when I came home he shewed me how they rolled round… for from my early readings of fairy tales and genii, etc. etc. -my mind had been habituated to the vast.”

From a letter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

”When in mid-May the sickening east wind

Shifts sudden to the south, the small warm rain

Melts out the frozen incense from all flowers,

And fills the air with so much pleasant health

That even the dying man forgets his shroud.”

To J Reynolds, 1818, from the letters of John Keats (1795-1821)

“I do not write for the public. You are my public.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

This website is a digital archive for the poetry, stories, essays, art works and photographs of EINZELNE and Jack Merlin Booth.

EINZELNE is the solo project of Jack Merlin Booth who is of Irish origin (County Wexford) and grew up in Liverpool, UK and Perth, Western Australia.

Booth lived in Berlin, Germany from 2017 to 2024 and currently resides in the countryside of New England, Massachusetts, USA. Former projects included a duo with Eleni Poulou (The Fall, Mark E Smith) and a stint as the viola player in the Berlin based band The Midnight Audience.

EINZELNE was founded in Berlin in 2022 with the aim to write, record and produce independently, functioning as a one person group relying on no musicians, engineers or instrumentation from outside. A spirit of isolationism (from the surrounding culture and technological defilements of “progress”) informed by the ideas of English and German Romanticism, the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner and the artist and musician John Balance (Coil) motivate the project.

EINZELNE’S works include music, poetry, essays, collage, painting and photography and the project works with guitars, viola, lute, flute, shakuhachi, tape, field recordings, histories and traditions.

EINZELNE’S primary influences are traditional Irish, Scottish and English folk music, Ruaidri Dáll Ó Catháin, Béla Bartók, the 60s British Folk Revival movement (primarily Anne Briggs, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Bridget St John and Roy Harper), the Watersons, Jackson C Frank, John Fahey, Richard Dadd, Alfred Wallis, George Smart, George MacDonald and John Keats.

Dream and Deed