Y Create – Music From The White House Vol.1 (Y Create) [Cass] (1986, Exart)

Y Create is the solo moniker of Hessel Veldman, but was also used to refer to a changing group of musicians connected to Exart. A lot of their improvisations and compositions were recorded and several were released on the label. Apart from Veldman, musicians appearing on these sessions include Nick Nicole, Kees Beukelaar, Herman Te Loo, Jos van Ommen, Kees van Ede, Willem De Ridder, Jos Van Duijne, Peter Cornelissen and Gert-Jan Prins. 

 

Born 1961 in Ijmuiden, Netherlands, Gert-Jan Prins has been known for twenty years as one of the most challenging Dutch sound artists and established himself as one of the central performers on European improvised electronics scene. His unique self-developed live-electronics make use of radio and transmitter technology and create sounds with great physical energy. 

 

Starting off as a rock drummer, Prins continued as an improviser, later re-emerging as a master of self-made electronic machines in the mid-90's. He focuses on percussive and environmental noise creating a music that's characterized by pure rawness in volume and sound, but also utilizing subtlety in color through specific use of scraping, rasping and other noise sounds. 

 

Besides being one of The Vacuum Boys, he also released a number of solo and collaborative albums with Cor Fuhler, Domenico Sciajno, Tomas Korber, Anla Courtis and others on GROB, Erstwhile Records, Editions Mego and other highly acclaimed labels. He was also a co-founder of X-OR label in 1990, which ten year later went on without him, led by Luc Houtkamp and Wiek Hijmans. Prins had a number of projects with fellow artists, including E-RAX (with Thomas Lehn and Peter van Bergen), The Flirts (with Cor Fuhler) and others. G-J Prins also played with Lee Ranaldo, Peter Rehberg, Fennesz, Anne La Berge, Misha Mengelberg and Luc Houtkamp, as well as being a member of MIMEO ensemble. 

 

Label: Exart – EXART 024, Exart – EA 024 

Series: Music From The White House – Vol.1 

Format: Cassette, C60 

Country: Netherlands 

Released: 1986 

Style: Experimental, Minimal 

 

Tracklist: 

A1 Gert Jan Prins – Urlo 

A2 Peter Cornelissen – 1.1.86 

A3 Kees Beukelaar – Air Lock 

A4 Bart Broek – Helium 

A5 Hessel Veldman – Wrong Tape 

A6 Herman Te Loo – Radio Surfing 

B7 Ruud Junge – Kein Zweifel 

B8 Jos Van Duyne – Infidelity 

B9 Gert Jan Prins, Peter Cornelissen, Kees Beukelaar, Bart Broek, Hessel Veldman, Herman Te Loo, Ruud Junge, Jos Van Duyne – Music From The White Theatre 

 

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