Windham Hill: The First Ten Years is a retrospective celebrating the artists and artistry of the pioneering new age label's first full decade. And while the label's compilation release schedule is brisk to say the least, this two-disc set features at least one track from anyone who's ever recorded for the imprint's main new age division. It's ...
The fifth volume in the Café del Mar series continues Ibiza legend José Padilla's wide-ranging look at what can possibly make up a dance album: a track from Indian film soundtracker AR Rahman, a light dubby trip through Prozac Muzak from Levitation, the obligatory Kruder & Dorfmeister remix (an excellent remake of Lamb's "Transfatty Acid"), plus a ...
Sampler '92 is the newest release of Windham Hill's successful sampler series, another inspired testimony to the development of this pioneering label. From Michael Manring, Michael Hedges and Mark Isham to Liz Story, Philip Aaberg, Nightnoise and label-founder Will Ackerman, the 12 cuts showcase a variety of contemporary musical expressions from ...
One can imagine how a composer like Wim Mertens could appear on the Windham Hill label and -- to some people's surprise -- in the late '80s he appeared twice. Whisper Me is a compilation of tracks from his other Crepuscle releases, a mini-overview of his style, and a way of hearing some tracks from the then-impossible-to-find Maximizing the ...
A more energetic collection of Mertens pieces, Motives for Writing is closer to the driving rhythm work of Michael Nyman. Piano is not the central instrument here -- most of Mertens' compositions are for a small ensemble of strings and winds. "No Testament" and "The Personell Changes" are urgent, strident works, whereas "Words on the Page" is ...
Wim Mertens' first album after dropping the group name Soft Verdict, the double-disc Maximizing the Audience consists of the music for Jan Fabre's play The Power of Theatrical Madness, which premiered in Venice, Italy, on June 11, 1984. This is Mertens' first foray into extended compositional forms; the pieces on earlier Soft Verdict records had ...
Compiled from Mertens's solo and group projects recorded during the early to mid '80s, this Windham Hill collection offers an overview of his textural, multilayered style of minimalist composition. ~ Linda Kohanov, All Music Guide
The fourth release by Belgian post-minimalist composer Wim Mertens, 1983's Struggle for Pleasure, is a brief EP's worth of, as the composer puts it, " petite musique de chambre. " It sounds a bit stuffy, but it's indicative of Mertens' talent that one of these six tracks, the hauntingly beautiful piano instrumental "Close Cover," actually became a ...
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Schonherz, Richard; Shadowfox; Story, Tim; Ackerman, William; Mertens, Wim; Rubaja; Hernandez; Montreux; Hedges, Michael;...
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