Wim Mertens Iris

Wim Mertens is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. In 1978, he became a producer at the then BRT (Belgian Radio and Television, now called Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep). For Radio 2 (Radio Brabant) he produced concerts by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, Urban Sax and others, and hosted a program called Funky Town together with Gust De Meyer (with whom he recorded the experimental album For Amusement Only). Mertens' style has continually evolved during the course of his prolific career, starting from downright experimental and avant-garde, always gravitating around minimalism, usually, however, preserving a melodic foundation to the forays that he makes into the worlds that he is exploring. His compositional quality has often overweighted the "labelling issue" and reached wider audiences although stemming from a far-from-mainstream musical context. One can follow three separate threads of musical styles throughout his work: a) Compositions for ensemble, perhaps his most accessible and "commercial" material; b) Solo piano and voice compositions, which features haunting keyboard melodies accompanied by Mertens' unique high-pitched tenor voice singing in an invented, personal language; and c) Experimental minimalist "cycles" for single, dual, and sometimes more instruments"- Wikipedia

music includes:

Wim Mertens - Iris

(Strategie De La Rupture)

Erik Satie - Gymnopedie No 1

(Diva OST, 1981)

unrelated piano

Tom Waits ft Allen Ginsberg - America
(America, Closing Time)

Freddie Mercury - Exercise In Free Love

(The Freddie Mercury Album, 1992)