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 -