Name: The Cerysmatic Factory Wim Mertens Interview [factoryrecords.org] by cerysmatic
Duration: 1 h 32 min 3 s
Description: An exclusive interview by Brandon Spivey with Wim Mertens, the Belgian multi-instrumentalist and composer. Recorded in August 2012.

As a Belgiand an dvery long time lover of Wim's music i'm totally charmed and thankful to find this full length interview here. It gives me more insight in his msuic, his concerts. I've seen him perform live many times and looking forward to seeing him perform in the outdoors one day.   Much thanks!

What is the title of the song cycle he mentions after 21:00?

Does Mertens say that he composed for violas da gamba at 21:38? If so, where can we hear this music?

What is the title of the piece mentioned at 29:55?

Glad I found this interview, I grew up being influenced by Wim Mertens.

JUPITER - C - WESTWAY 06 - THIS IS WHITE CITY

JUPITER - C - WESTWAY 05 - CONCRETE SKIES TEMPERED

JUPITER - C - WESTWAY 04 - DISLOCATION

JUPITER - C - WESTWAY 03 - HYDROPHONIC WORKSHOP

JUPITER - C - WESTWAY 02 - COURSE OF AN EMPIRE

JUPITER - C - WESTWAY 01 - DECONSTRUCTION OF AN END

JUPITER-C - Critical Mass (Clint Mansell Remix)

Excerpts from the album:

Artist: Ultramarine
Title: Signals Into Space

Pre-order here:
https://www.lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/signals_into_space_twi1236.html

Formats: 2xLP / CD
Label: Les Disques du Crépuscule (TWI 1236 / TWI 1236 CD)
Released: 11th January 2019

All instruments played by Ian Cooper & Paul Hammond except...
Anna Domino: vocals, lyrics
Iain Ballamy: soprano sax, tenor sax
Ric Elsworth: vibraphone, percussion

Recorded at Stag Studios, Essex and Press Play Studios, London
Engineered by Andy Ramsay
Mastered by Noel Summerville at 3345 Mastering, London

Art & design by Heretic / Spectral Nation
http://hereticheretic.co.uk

Signals Into Space

Ultramarine - Signals Into Space (album preview)

An exclusive interview by Brandon Spivey with Wim Mertens, the Belgian multi-instrumentalist and composer. Recorded in August 2012.

The Cerysmatic Factory Wim Mertens Interview [factoryrecords.org]

It’s 1978. Wally Van Middendorp forms experimental act Minny Pops in Amsterdam and releases the “Kojak” single on the Plurex label.

In 1980 Minny Pops are signed to Factory Records, playing with Suicide in New York, touring with Joy Division and later New Order in the UK. 

By 1982 it’s over, van Middendorp does a backflip, also called a back tuck, somi or salto and becomes a record label man. 

Summer 1991. David Bason is cleaning up a bar in rural Saskatchewan the morning after the night shift before. An idea struck. What if he recorded himself and his friends playing music, but not as a band… Rather, each in total isolation with no reference as to what the others are playing. Then he’d take it all and mix it. That would be pure. Purity is hard to find. Fuck jazz, this would be actual purity. But would it be musical? He added the idea to his to-do list. 

It is now 2003. Wally and David meet in the elevator at 902 Broadway, New York. They hit it off, kindred musical spirits. They maintain their friendship for years to come without sustaining any injuries.

2015 - David finally feels motivated to giving his idea a try. Partly to clear up some brain space, partly out of curiosity, partly as a social experiment to do with friends. Van Middendorp happens to be in Los Angeles. What better experimentalist to do this with than Wally Van Middendorp, king of weird shit?
  
2019 – Like a good wine, the track needed to ‘age’ and is now decanted.

Recorded with very capable friends Bruce Driscoll (Blondfire, Freedom Fry), 
producer-songwriter Steve Singh, drummer Will Noon (Fun!, Straylight Run, Breaking Pangea): We think it’s musical.

Lyrics by Wally van Middendorp
Music by David Bason
Produced and arranged by David Bason

artwork: Arthur Kempenaar - www.arthurkempenaar.nl
typography: Alfred Boland - www.redbol.nl

The Cerysmatic Factory Wim Mertens Interview [factoryrecords.org]

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