First Meeting, by Dominique Lawalrée

First Meeting

by Dominique Lawalrée

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1.	Post-Scriptum 04:43	buy track
2.	Musique Satieerique 05:07	buy track
3.	Le Secret Blanc 14:25	buy track
4.	Flight 3.0.5. 01:36	buy track
5.	La Maison Des 5 Éléments 09:31	buy track
6.	Minimum II 02:33	buy track
7.	Waiting for the Bus 03:47	buy track
8.	Listen to the Quiet Voice 03:59	buy track
9.	Please Do Not Disturb 02:10	buy track
10.	Et Caetera (Bonus Digital Track) 01:36	buy track
11.	K7 Music (Bonus Digital Track) 06:16	buy track
12.	Rainy Sunday : Dimanche Pluvieux (Bonus Digital Track) 06:35	buy track
13.	Milk Shake (Bonus Digital Track) 02:03	buy track
14.	Pleine Lune: Insomnie (Bonus Digital Track) 02:32	buy track
15.	Well ! (Bonus Digital Track) 00:28	buy track

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Dominique Lawalrée (b. 1954) is a composer born and based in Brussels. First Meeting is Lawalrée's first archival release to date. Culled from four different albums originally self-published on his private label Editions Walrus, circa 1978-1982, this compilation highlights the composer's unique sense of ambient and minimal composition. Originally considered for release on Brian Eno's Obscure Records, Lawalrée's music is now no longer hidden.

In this collection the listener finds the sounds of piano, synthesizers, percussion, Wurlitzer, organ, and voice, all performed by Lawalrée. Using these tools Dominique creates miniature themes that gallop across the speakers in slow motion, stretching our normal sense of dynamics and color, effortlessly widening the stereo plane. On “Musique Satieerique,” Dominique pays homage to the influence of Satie with simple repeated piano figures and a lush field of organs and flutes. And on other selections, like “La Maison Des 5 Elements,” he takes a more wistful, ambient approach, layering keyboard lines, and invoking found/tape sounds to create a hypnogogic world of his own. Childlike in its playfulness and surreal to the bone, the music spins like a carrousel placed inside the Rothko Chapel. Lawalrée’s sense of timbre, tone, and overarching composition is like an impression of a home movie whose charm lies in its knowledge of intimacy, shared by few. An incantation of innocence.

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released February 24, 2017

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