Art In Another Way, by Jacques Charlier

Art In Another Way

by Jacques Charlier

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45RPM double LP compilation mixed and mastered from Charlier’s original 4-track recordings from the 1980s. Includes a postcard featuring a behind-the-scenes performance photo and visual score by Charlier.

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1.	Jingle – Crepuscule 03:09	buy track
2.	L'Amour Dans Les Chansons 05:52	buy track
3.	Samba 04:38	buy track
4.	Vampirella 04:44	buy track
5.	Perki Show 03:36	buy track
6.	Check Up 04:55	buy track
7.	L'Aube 03:09	buy track
8.	L'Hésitation 04:43	buy track
9.	Top 06:06	buy track
10.	Passing Time 01:49	buy track
11.	Tout Va Bien 04:29	buy track
12.	Un Chat Dans Mon Lit 05:31	buy track
13.	Morning 02:21	buy track
14.	End of W.E. 01:39	buy track
15.	(DIGITAL BONUS) Le Rockeur De Métro 03:27	buy track

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Musique Plastique and Séance Centre are proud to present Jacques Charlier’s “Art In Another Way”, a 45RPM double LP compilation of the Belgian multi-disciplinary artist’s inimitable chanson regressive recordings from the 1980s.

Throughout a long career in the visual arts, Jacques Charlier has maintained a multi-disciplinary approach that includes forays in poetry, underground comics, acting, filmmaking and music. Besides performing with his punk group Terril (sadly, never recorded), Charlier took inspiration from the minimalist sounds of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, La Monte Young, John Cage, and Meredith Monk. Throughout the 1970s he performed psychoacoustic pieces in Liège, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Milan and Düsseldorf, and in the astounding performance art video Desperados Music, filmed by Paul Paquay for Belgian television. Charlier hit a creative stride in the 1980s — armed only with a synth, drum machine, fuzz box, and his custom guitar, with occasional duets with vocalist Martine Doutreleau. He recorded a trove of proto-pop tunes which he self-released on three cassettes (Musique Regressive, Chansons Idiotes and Chansons Tristes) between 1984–1987.

“Art In Another Way” collects selections from these tapes, in addition to an ample supply of previously unreleased material, all mixed and mastered from Charlier’s original 4-track recordings for a wide angle view of his creative range. From the proto-house rhythm of “Jingle – Crepuscule”, to the minimal EBM experiment “Top” and Art Of Noise-inspired “Passing Time”. There are certain resonances within the catalogs of Belgian labels Crammed Discs and Les Disques Du Crépuscule, yet even with these genre-bending precedents, Charlier’s music is idiosyncratic and visionary to the extreme. Accompanying the release is a postcard featuring a behind-the-scenes performance photo and visual score by Charlier.

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released February 25, 2022

All music created by Jacques Charlier
Additional vocals by Martine Doutreleau
Compilation produced by Luke Buser, Brandon Hocura and Tony Remple
Mixed and mastered by Brandon Hocura
Designed by Tony Remple
Front cover photo by Ph De Gobert
Back cover photo by Jacques Charlier

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