ARTIST...: Jacques Charlier
TITLE....: Kiliwatch
YEAR.....: 2020
LABEL....: Musique Plastique / SΘance Centre
CAT.NO...: MP007 / 20SC
GENRE....: New Wave
TIME.....: 09:25
SIZE.....: 21.59 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2020/08/14
WEBSITE..: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/?id=Bthpgpkt7az5zd2cxvxfnsqk7ou
TRACKLIST
01) (04:08) Kiliwatch
02) (05:17) Loulou
Jacques Charlier is primarily known as a visual artist, which obscures the fact that
heÆs been actively multi-disciplinary for the entirety of his career. Born in 1939 in
LiΦge, Belgium, his interest in all forms of art began at a very early age when he
aspired to be a poet, writer, musician, comic book artist, actor, and movie director,
and in his own eccentric way became all of these things.
In the 1970s, inspired by the minimalist sounds of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, La
Monte Young, John Cage, and Meredith Monk, Charlier armed himself with a custom
guitar, and sound modulating effects and started experimenting on his 4-track. He
performed psychoacoustic pieces in LiΦge, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Milan and
Dⁿsseldorf, and in the inimitable performance art video ôDesperados Musicö, filmed by
Paul Paquay in 1979 for Belgian television. Charlier hit a creative stride in the
1980s, recording off-kilter tunes influenced by everything from post-punk, EBM, YΘ-yΘ
and psychedelic rock. Similarities reside in the catalogs of Belgian labels Crammed
Discs and Les Disques Du CrΘpuscule, yet even with these genre-bending precedents,
CharlierÆs music is idiosyncratic to the extreme. In 1984 and 1987, he self-released
two cassettes incorporating synth, drum machine, his custom guitar, and vocalist
Martine Doutreleau on occasional duets.
This limited edition 7ö single offers the previously unreleased jangle/darkwave jam
ôKiliwatchö, backed with ôLoulouö, a scorching psychedelic oddity from one of
CharlierÆs original cassettes. It precedes the upcoming double LP compilation of
CharlierÆs music, and is the perfect introduction to his curious and complex artistic
vision.
Co-release with SΘance Centre
Limited to 150 copies, only available via SΘance Centre and Musique Plastique.
Release date: January 17th 2020
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