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ARTIST
BEKAERT, JACQUES
TITLE
Jacques Bekaert
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
METAPHON
CATALOG #
METAPHON 015LP
METAPHON 015LP
GENRE
EXPERIMENTAL
RELEASE DATE
1/13/2023
Originally released in 1981 on the Belgian Igloo label this reissue comes with the same sleeve as originally designed by
Alain Géronnez
. "A Late Lunch" is the soundtrack to
Akiko Iimura
's eponymous movie realized in 1978. It is based on acoustic instruments and field recordings, brilliantly reconfigured and mixed by Bekaert to create a surreal, immersive soundscape. The technique used includes superposition and speed change of recordings, radical sound effects, and juxtaposition of sounds. The players were prominent musicians of the 1970s, including
Maggi Payne
,
George Lewis
,
David Rosenboom
, and
Blue Gene Tyranny
. "A Summer Day at Stony Point" was composed in 1969, with participation of
David Behrman
,
Shigeko Kubota
, and
Charlotte Warren
. The piece was commissioned by English composer
Hugh Davies
who presented it at the Harrogate festival the same year. Stony Point is a small village in New York State where John Cage co-owned a small pseudo-commune art resort where like-minded artists gathered. "A Summer Day at Stony Point" is nothing more than a page of a journal, a fragment of a notebook that utilizes a series of sound sources recorded at Stony Point on one beautiful day in the summer of 1968. Other electronic sound sources were recorded at the Brandeis University where
Alvin Lucier
was professor. The final realization of the piece was done at
Henri Pousseur
's APELAC Studio in Brussels, 1969. The soundtrack for Akiko Iimura's
Mon Petit Album
was composed on the basis of a simple description of the technique of the film and its time span. It includes David Behrman on alto, from an outdoor recording at Stony Point, plus excerpts from a Transition concert in London, the band
Bekaert
formed in 1971 with
Michel Herr
,
Takehisa Kosugi
, and
Ryo Koike
, both members of the
Taj Mahal Travelers
. The atmosphere is quiet and pastoral throughout with a very dreamlike flavor. Edition of 500.
"...
Gentle threads of instrumental and electronic sounds are mixed with outdoor rural field recordings and occasional voices of his friends speaking, whistling or singing. Bekaert creates a warm environment within which we can hear subtle individual voices of good musicians who are relating to his loosely-notated scores and verbal instructions
..." --David Behrman
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