Dead-Cert

DE MEESTER, LOUIS - Alpha Recordings

Dead Cert collect three unique and chilling electro-acoustic compositions by the pioneering head of Belgiums Institute of Psychoacoustic and Electronic Music, dating between 1958-1971. Born in 1904, in Roeselare, Belgium,Louis De Meester was a self-taught musician who, after travelling widely as a professional player, professed himself an autodidactic composer by 1945 and proceeded to become Music Modulator" at The BRT (Belgian Radio and TV broadcasting company) and later head producer and artistic director at IPEM in Ghent between 1962-1969. His work, covering chamber music, lieder, cantatas, and concertantes has been subject of renewed focus recently, thanks to reissues such as Metaphons 50-year anniversary compilation of IPEM recordings, and now thanks to the efforts of Andy Votel and Demdike Stares Dead-Cert imprint, were presented with three of his finest pieces plucked from the archive of Alpha Brussels and carefully transferred from tape with little to no further processing byAndy Popplewell. They include "Incantations" (1958) and the string-heavy "Spielerei" (1970), plus a very necessary reissue of the outstanding "Mimodrama" (1971), which was also reissued by Keith Fullerton Whitmans Creel Pone in 2008 and was last available on vinyl in 1974. "Mimodrama" is the records biggest attraction; a 26-minute composition for magnetophone, patching elements of previous works into a sort of biographical account, travelling from oneiric electronics to more defined concr_ɬ®te shapes and textures to almost arcane Mittel European folk melodies and rhythms. Remastered by Gareth Mallinson and Matt Colton. Limited edition pressing of 500 copies." - Dead-Cert.

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