Struggle for Pleasure [Import]

Track Listings

1. Tourtour

2. Struggle For Pleasure

3. Salernes

4. Close Cover

5. Bresque

6. Gentleman Of Leisure

Struggle for Pleasure,Wim Mertens,Crepuscule,Contemporary Instrumental,New Age

Tracks:

Augustus
Birds for the Mind/The Victor Emanuel
Aural Trick/Foro Italico
Struggle for Pleasure/Stourley Kracklite
4 Mains/Etienne-Louis Boullee
Close Cover/The Villa Adriana
Time Passing/The Pantheon Meal
Tourtour/The Roman Forum
And With Them/Caspian
Andrea Doria/Galba/Caracalla/Hadrian
Galba - Wim Mertens
Caracalla - Wim Mertens
Hadrian - Wim Mertens
Augustus - Wim Mertens

Customer Reviews:

Some of the best minimalistic music ever written, not a great production though.......2006-01-29

Wim Mertens is my favourite minimalist along with Philip Glass. This soundtrack has it all. Great themes - probably the most memorable themes of any other soundtrack and intense atmospheric playing. The production of this CD though is very 'minimal', more so than any CD you'll ever buy for $20. I can not think of any other CD of that price range lacking all the essentials. A pitty.... 5+ * for the music, 1 - * for the package.

Some of the best piano compositions.......2001-11-16

I have not seen the Peter Greenways'film.. and maybe
I won't do that.. I am afraid to get dissapointed because
for me this CD reflects so much creativity and passion.
Three tracks are for me some of the best piano compositions ever:

1.Struggle for plaeasure
the piano, like Life,
begins slowly, softly,
marking the rhythm gently
then it becomes
sharp needles spining and falling from the sky
The wind instruments
are the vital fast breathing to survive Life

2. 4 mains

the piano marchs
the piano spins
the piano climbs
the piano falls

3. Close cover
If I have to choose the soundtrack for my life
it would be this piece

GREAT.......2001-09-18

If you like nice orchestral music, often stirring emotions of love and heartbreak, but still uplifting, go buy this album. It's that easy. I first heard a song from Wim on a Cafe Del Mar album and had to buy his entire album. It was obviously worth it and I think you'll agree when you listen to it. So go buy it.

A superb introduction to the minimalism of Branca & Mertens.......2001-06-24

This soundtrack for the Peter Greenaway film of the same name almost steals the film with it's careening, cyclical piano pieces perfectly matching architect Stourley Cracklite's world slowly collapsing amidst the Roman ruins of contemporary Rome. The soundtrack to the film is one of the few by Peter Greenaway that does not feature his usual partner in crime Michael Nyman. The soundtrack was initially developed by New York based minimalist composer Glenn Branca, but was largely rejected by Greenaway. An earlier release of this soundtrack did feature a few dramatic Brancian orchestral swells, but unfortunately this release (given the track listing) seems to have left these pieces off, which is a shame.

This release features the brilliant work of Belgian minimalist piano composer Wim Mertens, and is utterly stunning in it's emotional intensity, power and beauty, with cyclical piano motifs spinning the listener around in an intense but gorgeous emotional journey. Some of the work covered on this soundtrack can be found on Mertens' career highlight release 'Close Cover' (sadly out of print at the time of this writing). Those interested in work by Glenn Branca should also look to explore his early 80's orchestrated guitar recordings (some of which are not for the fainthearted), as well as 1992's sublime 'The World Upside Down'.

This is one of the best soundtrack recordings I have ever heard, and still sends chills through me almost ten years after seeing the film. It also represents an excellent introduction to the works of two very under-rated yet important modern composers.

Love the life.......2001-01-12

I'm sorry for my english, I'm spanish. I only want to say that Wim Vertens changed my life. Please , why this person is not a famous compositor? I am not an old person that hate pop music. I'm 22 and a electronic music composer in Spain, I talk about Wim Vertens discography not only this cd. His music go inside my mind and the time stop, When I finish I don't know where I am, who I am, I only know that my life has one way, be happy. Five stars for this person that love the life.

Average customer rating:

Struggle for Pleasure
Wim Mertens
Manufacturer: Crepuscule
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronic | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0001Z2TVW
Release Date: 2006-07-17

Tracks:

Tourtour
Struggle for Pleasure
Salernes
Close Cover
Bresque
Gentleman of Leisure

Average customer rating:

super slick house combined with the worlds deadliest trance

Struggle for Pleasure
Minimalistix
Manufacturer: Sphear
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000056JQM
Release Date: 2000-12-19

Customer Reviews:

super slick house combined with the worlds deadliest trance.......2001-07-17

This kickin track first bared it's rude face in Belgium with an original remix by Wim Mertens. the title shows exactly what this track is all about with a few bars so deep and euphoric you'll be jumping up and down while your mother shouts at you in the background about Cat Stevens and why don't YOU listen to more "elegant" music. but who needs Stevens when you can dance your little booty off all night to just one track while simultaneously never getting sick of it... ever.

Average customer rating:

Short but very sweet --- the album that launched WM

Struggle for Pleasure
Wim Mertens
Manufacturer: Crepuscule
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Electronic | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Best of Wim Mertens
A Man of No Fortune and with a Name to Come
Un Respiro

ASIN: B0000089D8
Release Date: 1999-12-15

Tracks:

Tourtour
Struggle for Pleasure
Salernes
Close Cover
Bresque
Gentleman of Leisure

Customer Reviews:

Short but very sweet --- the album that launched WM.......2001-11-25

There are only six relatively short tracks on this mini-album, which catapulted composer Wim Mertens from nowhere to near-stardom in his native Belgium and other European countries. Steve Reich is an obvious influence (both in terms of minimalism and love for unusual instrumentations --- in fact, I mistook some parts for synthesizers when I first heard the album!), but more melodic and less repetitive in character. The haunting instrumental ballad "Close Cover" was the jingle for Belgian national radio's late-night programme for years (when I lived there). My favorite is the title track, which builds up layer by layer, in "chaconne" fashion, over a catchy arpeggiated piano pattern to reach a thunderous climax. Tracks 3 and 6 are likewise classics in their genre. If you want to surprise a discriminating (but open-minded) listener with an unexpected musical delight, this is the album!

Average customer rating:

Struggle for Pleasure
Minimalistix
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005AWE9
Release Date: 2001-09-04

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