Label: Meakusma - mea030

瞬殺完売の盤がリプレス、この機会をお見逃しなく！！2019年末発表されたとんでもない内容のコンピレーション盤！！Chris Watson監修のフィールドレコーディングV.AやCarl StoneとMiki Yui氏によるユニットRealistic Monkなどを手掛けているMeakusma、そして自身のAf Ursin及びElodieのリリースを中心としたTimo Van Luijkのエクスペリメンタル系名レーベルLa Scie Dorée、共にベルギーを拠点とする2つのレーベルが共同で制作した激ヤバ面子の激高内容V.A!!
いきなりAf Ursinに始まり、氏のレーベルで度々取り上げられている重鎮Michael Ranta、Andrew Chalk, Ecka Rose Mordecai, Tom James ScottによるCircaea、オランダの超奇才Raymond Dijkstra、新たなリリースものとしては結構久々の登場となるChristoph Heemann、当店にてそのコラボレーションアルバムが大人気となっているNurse With Wound & James Worse、この所動きが活発になっているSloow TapesのオーナーBart De Paepe、そして毎度素晴らしい結果の録音を残すコンビ重鎮Jac Berrocal & Vincent Epplay、試聴を聞いただけで思いっきりふっ飛ばされる激ヤバ音源満載の名コンピ。

















Au-delà is a collaborative record by La Scie Dorée and Meakusma. It features eight pieces of music by La Scie Dorée affiliates. For the 2018 Meakusma Festival, La Scie Dorée and Meakusma set up a collaboration that brought performances by Timo Van Luijk, Steven Stapleton, Christophe Heemann, Daniel Denis, Bart De Paepe, Kris Vanderstraeten & daniel duchamP to the festival in Eupen, Belgium. This was followed up with a night organized in the province of Limburg in Belgium featuring performances by Frederik Croene and Timo Van Luijk, Tom James Scott, Ecka Mordecai and Andrew Chalk.

Timo Van Luijk founded La Scie Dorée in 2000 to release his solo work as Af Ursin and the various collaborative projects he is involved in. Af Ursin opens Au-delà with a piece escaping straightforward definition, setting the tone for the album. The general focus of Au-delà is on musical space and the at times gentle yet always focused upset of musical and emotional signifiers. Tracks by legendary artists such as Michael Ranta, Steven Stapleton and Christophe Heemann together with work by relatively young or obscure performers and new projects such as Circaea, Raymond Dijkstra, Bart de Paepe and Berrocal Epplay all delve into the niche that is free improvisation, frankly defining inward and outward space and movement and thus questioning the purpose of the niche itself.

Au-delà features a music that borders and transcends the genres of free improv, ambient, industrial and avant-garde composition. Its intention lays firmly in surpassing the general idea that experimental and improvised music is intended for the initiated only. Its subtle stance on musical beauty only adds to that intention.

The collaboration between La Scie Dorée and Meakusma benefited greatly from the support of the Flemish Community and Ostbelgien.