Epic That Never Was

Epic That Never Was Artist: Wim Mertens
Label: Crepuscule
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5413303209837
ASIN: B0000089CZ


Release Date: 2000-05-30

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Listmania:

  1. Albums for the comfort of loneliness
  2. Beautiful Minimalism
  3. "The" music
  4. Soul Conversation

Tracks:

  1. Circular Breathing
  2. Multiple 12
  3. Land Beyond the Sunset
  4. Voo Outro
  5. Humility
  6. Femme de Nulle Part
  7. Iris
  8. Kanaries/Night Creature
  9. Belly on an Architect
  10. Close Cover

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Somewhat less metaphysical, but just as enthusiastic.......2006-01-18

Oh, the Mertens confusion. CDs all over, with duplicate tracks, different arrangments, obscure titles, and those prices! Solo? Ensemble? Which to choose?

Well, this is a stunner. I have had it for over 7 years, and enjoy it more now than I did when it first arrived. This is in many ways my favorite of the solo CDs. I cannot grow tired of it. Wim is an astonishingly talented musician who creates the most lovely and moving tunes out of the smallest pieces, tiny tunes, endlessly varied, repeated, twisted and turned upside down, played with a superbly confident pianism and that otherworldy voice that startles, then challenges, then finally comforts. And as the other reviewer says, the tracks available only here are absolutely grand.

There are many pretenders to the throne of "The Best" in this field, which I guess would be minimalist/ethereal/ambient music, but there is nothing ambient about this CD. This will engage and grip and not let go, just as it did when performed to that lucky audience in Lisbon in 1993.

5 out of 5 stars lionself does himself.......1999-05-21

to some people it may seem nerving, personality difference. wim mertens delivers minimalism in its most beautiful form. music is never boring, rather you choose the way you want it, it is what mertens is offering. this concert piece is finest work of his that i heard. there are two compositions never to be published on the studio albums, and these two may be two of his best. wim keeps his lionself inside and all of the melodic sounds he makes are recycled shrieks, they travel through your central ear and make you wish for more.

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  2. Tunhuang ~ Kitaro
  3. Invisible Man ~ Cretu
  4. Open Secret ~ Denis Quinn
  5. Crystal Sound Meditiation ~ Chris James & Jenny James
  6. L' Essentiel ~ Alab%C3%ADna
  7. Tantra ~ Anugama
  8. Beaubourg ~ Vangelis
  9. Live in Paris at Bataclan, 1973 ~ Gong
  10. Carl Stone 1196 ~ Carl Stone

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