{"id":3370,"date":"2020-07-05T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T07:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2021-07-02T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T03:42:42","slug":"soundwave-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-14\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 14 : GERT DE MEESTER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello again. Welcome back to SOUNDWAVE!<\/p>\n\n

I just got back from a 4th of July party with my wife\u2019s unit so I\u2019m going to keep this short and sweet.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re new to the show, I launched SOUNDWAVE to help cope with the stress of the first month of the lockdown due to COVID-19. Ambient, classical, experimental and instrumental music was the only music I could listen at that time. If it was helping me, I imagined it would help others.<\/p>\n\n

Today was the first time in over four months of the lockdown I\u2019ve been around this many people at once. It was great! It felt completely normal. And it gave me a charge. But I\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t admit that I was a little uneasy. Four months will do that to you.<\/p>\n\n

If you\u2019re in the U.S., I hope you had a fine holiday. For everyone in the world, I hope you\u2019re having a lovely weekend.<\/p>\n\n

We just got home and we\u2019re winding down and this is the perfect opportunity to jot down today\u2019s show notes. Our guest for today\u2019s show is Gert De Meester of Distant Fires Burning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I met Gert when I reached out to David Newman, founder of Audiobulb Records<\/a><\/em> to participate on the show with a mix. David took pass but suggested I contact Gert and Kirk Markarian<\/a>. I owe David because Kirk\u2019s mix<\/a> was fantastic and I\u2019ve been waiting impatiently to take Gert\u2019s mix live. I know you\u2019re going to love it!<\/p>\n\n

Gert\u2019s going to rap with you about his mix below. Before I go, please join us again next week when our guest deejay is Carmen Rizzo<\/a>. You\u2019re in for a treat.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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Gert De Meester<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Our first track is Autistici<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWire Cage For Tiny Birds.\u201d Something that allways has attracted me to Autistici\u2019s music, is the sense for new sounds and intricate sounddesign. This has allways been reflected in my music. I am quite happy with the fact that David has released my last album on his Audiobulb label. It fits there perfectly.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cK & J\u201d is the opener of my last album. You hear a Jazzbass processed through ableton and a stockload of effects, basically my livesetup. \u201cK & J\u201d are the two most important people in my life.<\/p>\n\n

Our third track is Taylor Deupree<\/a>\u2019s \u201cNorthern\u201d. Taylor has allways been of great influence on me, besides Tim Hecker<\/a> and Biosphere. But in Taylor\u2019s music, I really find beauty, reminiscence, maybe a bit of wanderlust. It\u2019s that freedom that speaks to me, that encounter with the new, but allways the hint at nature and down to earth noises.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cScrape To Touch\u201d is by Neuro\u2026 No Neuro<\/a> and is one of my best labelmates and I saw him grow immensely in music making. His music really cought me by surprise as I host a Spotify playlist and i listen to all Audiobulb albums to give them a fair chance of getting included (me and David get along quite well, musically). But Kirk\u2019s music really caught me on a permanent level.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cGeomagnetic Disturbance\u201d is one of the first tracks where the Jazzbass got incorporated in my music. It was an outtake of 2010\u2019s album Build on Me<\/em> on U-Cover CDR Limited, but it got picked up by these great people of Consouling Sounds<\/a> for this compilation. Quite a lot Hecker inspired, but hey, everybody\u2019s got to learn sometimes\u2026<\/p>\n\n

Our last track is Sv\u00e6r<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBroken Waltz Of Fukushima\u201d. (Such a great 2019 discovery. He played as support of Tim Hecker in Brussels in 2019. What a great show that was, connected with him on Facebook, discovered he was a fellow Belgian too. And all of a sudden I got a message he released his debut album, the rest is history\u2026<\/p>\n\n

Cheers, I hope you enjoy this mix.<\/p>\n\n