Label: Dead Mind Records - DMR45

個人的2021年ベスト！！再入荷！！1976年に作曲を開始、ソノロジー研究所にてドイツ電子音楽界の重鎮Gottfried Michael Koenig、2017年にINA-GRMからも発掘音源が出たJaap Vinkに電子音楽を師事したオランダの作曲家Hans Van Eck。本作は初期電子音楽ファンからダークアンビエント好きにまで激激オススメしたい、氏が1987年に本国の実験レーベルDecay Internationalに残した1stカセット[Blind Area]のLPリイシュー版。まさに初期衝動といった、歪なファンタジーやら直感的配置など多様な音楽性にて構築された超魅力的な音源集で、ガッチガチのシリアスなコンクレートからアンビエント的要素を引き込んだ不思議な表現を聴くことが出来ます。大推薦。



Hans van Eck started composing music in 1976 and was trained in electronic music at the Institute of Sonology by Jaap Vink, Frits Weiland and Gottfried-Michael Koenig. He studied Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and received lessons in composition by Daan Manneke. His works are performed all over Europe by his own Schreck Ensemble and others.

The Blind Area cassette, released in 1987 by Decay International, compiles several of his early electronic compositions. They serve as an evocation of the blind areas of our minds where only fantasy, intuition and imagination can guide us. Music as a means to illuminate the hidden parts of our soul to discover the mythical world behind everyday life.

For this reissue, 3 central pieces of the original tape are complemented by 2 more recent compositions of somber timbres. Industrial undertones, open spaces and slow waves of pure, refined sound are the key ingredients, but Van Eck adds a subtle, narrative structure for a hypnotic, haunting and elegant experience. A self-contained world with echoes of predecessors like Jean-Claude Risset or Guy Reibel.