Wim Mertens – Aren Lezen (2001) FLAC

Part I: If Five Is Part Of Ten (TWI 1102 – 4CD)
Eric Robberecht violin
Lieven Vandewalle cello

Disc 1: If And Only If
If And Only If
Which Connects Them All
Smooth Manifolds
Twice Falsified
Possible Width
Benevolent Murmuring
Unlimited Returns
As Bait
Red Heat
Diagrammic Traits
Nous Sommes a Venir
Secret Of The Stammerer
Whimsical Curiosity
The One And The Many
Still Unbroken
Disc 2: Carried By The Tide
Comme une sonde
Uneven Halfs
Answerless Riddles
Obedience Into Command
Urdoxa
The Throw Of The Dice
Level Of The Membrane
More Grandiose
One Before Two
Incompossible Worlds
The Breaking Of The Shell
With Zones Of Clarity
Series Of Hungers
From The Whole To The Parts
Disc 3: Possible Worlds
Two Before Three
With Sensibilia
From Within
Logical Shell
And Yet To Come
Een Verlegenheidsnaam
Ame Chair
Against All Deaths
This Lustful Note
In Its Hardness
Subtle Schematism
Large Too Small
At Arm’s Length
A World Of Born
SouFFrance
With All His Might
Through Self Sameness
With Outstretched Wings
Hitherto
The Mildest Of All
With A Plougshare
Disc 4: Animal Magnetism
Trouvaille
Obsessional Paths
In The Meanderings
Pious Intentions
Four Before Five
Withdrawn Voices
Diurnal Reverie
Incerto Tempore
Just As The Swerve
Of Theft And Gift
Silent Imaginings

Part II: Aren Lezen (TWI 1103 – 4CD)
Hanna Grociak harp
Eric Robberecht violin
Dirk Descheemaeker soprano saxophone
Geert Helsen percussion

Disc 1 – Getrokken
Of animal habit
What it can grasp
Xerophyte
School of tought
Perpetuum quietum
And holding a sheaf
Weight of the heights
Whole bundles
Wandelende pijnen
In the swarm
Reaped in silence
Greath health
Een last over de grond trekken
Disc 2 – Gestrekken
As expansive fluidium
Taille de la vie
Seafaring
Interweaving
Angular momentum
Happy harvest
Useful to us
The goose for the fox
Irrational rhythms
At first glance
As in wooden wedges
As in a mould
Over het water glijden
Disc 3 – Geblazen
Water into vapor
Selective pressure
Within a larger ring
Truth on its side
Artifical instruments
Returned to its giver
Like inner commands
The stag and the wolf
Working backwards
As sole begetter
This undoing
In packs
Absolute heteron
Disc 4 – Geslagen
Primordial Fire
Called caloric
As place holder
Phenomenae of heat
Motor – habits
Quite the reverse
Rapid impact
Quivering timpani
In the midst
Always already
Ideals of quietism
As a lack
Gensters slaan

Part III: Kaosmos (TWI 1104 – 3CD)
Hanna Grociak harp
Eric Robberecht violin
Dirk Descheemaeker soprano saxophone
Bruno De Busschere euphonium
Wim Mertens piano

Disc 1: In The Making
Its Maschinewesen
Its Long Sought Principle
As Instrumentum
Cumbrous Notations
Random Groping
The Whole of the Past
Such a Transition
Par chance, sans effort
Aptride
This Necessary Willkur
Without Example
Unless the Hand Obeys
Stolen Legacy
Disc 2: Le grain de la membrane de l’organe de la voix
Initial Enthousiasm
Nature As Music
Qualitas occultas
Aether Proofs
By penetrating it
Originarie expansiva
Room for faith
Per spontaneitatem
Innocent Enough
Disc 3: Human Guesswork
Its Maschinewesen
Its Long Sought Principle
As Instrumentum
Cumbrous Notations
Random Groping
The whole Of The Past
Such A Transition
Par Chance, Sans Effort
Apatride
The Necessary Willkür
Without Example
Unless The Hand Obeys
Stolen Legacy

Part IV: aRe (TWI 1105 – 2CD)
Hanna Grociak harp

Disc 1: Global Persons
next nearest
various alphabets
for the ausführbarkeit
at every instant
method of intuition
sine missione
benen bol
alongside and successfully
arranged, simplified
you northerners
fewer refrains
most untamed
in fits and starts
luxta et post
as a fabulated giant
bodies into planes
periods of fasting
far enough
within a wider cartography
most secure bastion
into a bundle
Disc 2: Partial Objects
eerste aanzet
den enkelte
your northern mists
all desirability
in fluvia
begerige deel
in the caesura
what you see is what you hear
membrane states
connections of possibility
silent echoes
featherless biped
the gorged tick
of hands and fingers
clinamen
in close embrace
of niet
third kinds
essences of modes
then, and only then