Years Without History, Vol. 4: Net Yet, No Longer

Label: Les Disques du Crepus
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5413303211403
ASIN: B0000AKCB9

Release Date: 2003-01-01

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Tracks:

Its Long Sought Principle
As Instrumentum
Cumbrous Notations
Random Grouping
Whole of the Past
Such a Transition
Par Chance, Sans Effort
Apatride
This Necessary Willk
Without Example
Unless the Band Obeys
Its Maschinewesen

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Customer Reviews:

A passionate homage to music.......2005-07-19

This is one of the best albums ever released by the flemish composer Wim Mertens. Although all tracks have been previously released in the Kaosmos album in their piano version -in fact, the same music material can be heard throughout the entire cycle Aren Lezen since it is a common practice of the composer to rework and arrange his music in several ways- it is here in its ensemble version where this music really shines. Two saxophones, a trombone, a trumpet and a piano are enough to infuse this music with an impassioned energy never or rarely seen before in Mertens. This music is emotion-laden conveying a wide range of feelings from enthusiasm to pain, but always in a lively way. The music seems to develop in a deliberated akward way: starting, stoping and restarting again, as if in doubt; sometimes the players seem to go in different directions or to contradict themselves dissolving music into a chaotic frenzy, but all this contributes to the expressiveness of the music. The interplay of the instruments is superb, each part filling the gaps of the others or working in diverging layers: Mertens is probably at his best composing for wind instruments. If you are expecting easy-to-listen, relaxing new-age music this CD is NOT for you, better try Integer Valor, Skopos or Jardin Clos. This album has an obsessive character more suitable for real music lovers acquainted with a far more complex musical language as that of contemporary classical music or jazz.

Nothing like it. Original, Inventive, Beautiful, Powerful.......2003-08-02

Hello, I received NOT YET, NO LONGER today and after listening twice must say that I
really like it. After a few more listens I may uprade that to "love it" as it quickly grows on me. Again this is Wim on piano with a horn quartet. A few tracks near the beginning seem too much the same but other than that it is quite adventuresome. Track 8 really caught my ear with a lot of tricky and intricate horns going all around. This album feels very Spanish to me as did Integer Valor. I would love to hear all these tunes done with strings and harp or the complete ensemble. I do love Cave Musicam which has the same instrumentation. Dirk Descheemaeker and everyone else does some masterful playing. The sound and recording are very good. I'd love to see the movie this goes with. I will meditate with it and see what images emerge and try to note the colors. I also noticed only polite applause at the end of each piece. I'm guessing the audience didn't know what to think. Its pretty incredible to see how Wim's compositions have evolved in twenty years. My "ear" has also evolved. I imagine I will still be fanatical twenty years from now. Not yet, No Longer is for everyone, not just the diehard fanatics like me.

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