Numerus Fixus - the new album

[REWO]

Hi,

Tomorrow my new CD (factory pressed), no CDR this time, will be released.

Tracklisting:

Fixus part 1 [14:33] (Berlin School, retro, Moog sequences)
Fixus part 2 [10:24] (Berlin School, retro, Moog sequences)
Fixus part 3 [4:25] (ambient with some sequences)
Fixus part 4 [4:56] (not of this mentioned above)
Fixus part 5 [7:33] (slightly Underworld/Daft Punk)
Fixus part 6 [8:27] (same as part 5 but with Mellotron intro)
Fixus part 7 [4:18] (ambient with Moog bass)
Fixus part 8 [9:11] (some like it of part 5)

Recorded and mixed from July to October 2009 at the Miniminus Studio. Gouda.
Composed, arranged, performed and produced by René van der Wouden
Mastered by Ron Boots

René van der Wouden - Keyboards, Moog and Prophet synthesizers, electronic percussion and software

Numerus Fixus = Latin and means in English: Limited Places.

As we see the world as it is now today with more than 6 billion people I ask myself at times: can we keep on living our lives with less land, less water, less healthy air and fewer new resources with an ever growing worldly population? One of the predictions is that complex, interlinked ecosystems - (rain)forests, reefs, lakes, rivers, oceans and their food webs could collapse within a couple of decades from now if we continue like this. This album is dedicated to those interlinked ecosystems on which we are using every day and becoming more limited in period of time.

2009. Press Information

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Release Date: December 10th, 2009

For Direct Order: www.rewo-records.com - selling price = EUR 15,00

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Attachments:

[REWO]

A video of track 6

[Seeker]

Good luck with this one Rene.

[REWO]

thanks

[SeReN]

Hope it goes well Rene

[REWO]

Thanks Andy

[REWO]

[REWO]

Reviews:

Mastered by Ron Boots, Numerus Fixus is René Van Der Wouden’s 8th opus. It has as framework the fragility of ecosystems in a world that’s keep being smaller and smaller. An opus in the image of the Dutch synthesist which is strongly inspired by the analog sound effects, molding thus a musical approach more galactic than earthbound, and strongly influenced by French EM.
So Numerus Fixus lulls between two universes with a strong Jarre perfume, where the cosmos interlaces a contemporaneousness which does not really bind to the works’ thematic. If the first 3 parts form a moving symbiosis where the paradox earth / space is vibrating, the 5 last ones rather throw us in a sound universe where Van Der Wouden continues where Jarre decided to stop his creative meter.

Fixus Part I opens Numerus Fixus with fine arpeggios which tinkle, such as xylophone striking, to dance lazily on a sequential minimalism movement which fits the shape of a perpetual spiral. A galactic twist, accompanied to choirs to vaporous breathing, which parades such a Halloween bed song, where motorcycle roaring bursts to get lost in this crystal space. A heterogeneous intro to which is added the weight of a beautiful line of bass which rocks the movement of the same minimalism similarity, where synth solos insufflate a more spectral approach than cosmic to a title which is closer of cosmos than the earth with its Mellotron to slow violin breaths which cross coiled sequences among e-drum strikes and colorful sound effects bring a greater level of intensity, without however deviating Fixus Part I of its ethereal elongated bed song. Electronic sounds to the effervescence of the analog years punctuate constantly the works of René Van Der Wouden and Numerus Fixus is full of it.
Fixus Part II soaks in these e-sounds, with a rain of sonorous constellations which breaks under powerful cosmic waves, before a heavy oscillating, and sometimes resonant, sequence livens up a tempo which clears a path towards a panoply of sound particles. Slowly, the rhythm gets loose from its lunar approach to embrace a more terrestrial structure, under the breaths of a Mellotron which always hesitates between both universes. A Mellotron which takes a flutier look while this 2nd part flirts strangely with tinkled arpeggios of the introductory part.
Always in the register of the crystalline arpeggios to soft musical orations, Fixus Part III is simply magnificent. A dreamlike sweetness which sings the life and hope, as the tic-tac of a timeless watch, to shape a so warm and poetic musicality that it's a pity it has to end.
Fixus Part IV returns us in the rhythmic soils of Space Art with its fiery tempo seized by a synth to interlaced solos, while Fixus Part V is of a galactic heaviness extremely well structured. A crossing between Jarre’s Magnetic Fields and the electronic post punk of Punk Daft on a loud and livened up tempo of which a tinny synth offers beautiful symphonic impetus, quite as Part VI which enjoys a superb atmospheric intro and a roaring rhythmic sharply more elaborated.
Fixus Part VII is close to Jarre’s Oxygene area, with a beautiful ambient and cosmic structure, filled by a dramatic side of a rare intensity.
Fixus Part VIII closes with a more cheerful note. A heavy title, encircled by a round and fat sequence which parades with a synth to fluty breaths, adorned with a beautiful floating Mellotron and with xylophone arpeggios that dance on carnival-like percussions.

Without figuring among 2009 Top 10, Numerus Fixus is not that far. It’s a beautiful album which is a kind of continuity of Jarre analog years, without falling in the easy trap of plagiarism. There are superb passages on this opus which listens to throughout without a second of boredom. Great work by René Van Der Wouden there, who doesn’t stop to amazes and touches us.
In fact, René Van Der Wouden is to Jarre what Redshift, Arc and Free System Projekt are to Tangerine Dream; the reflection of an area sealed in time with a splendid dosage of creativity and originality. Fans of Jarre and Vangelis, Numerus Fixus and the great majority of René Van Der Wouden works are true values.

2010. Sylvain Lupari / gutsofdarkness

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"Numerus Fixus" by Gouda-based electronic musician Rene van der Wouden, is a concept album dedicated to the various interlinked ecosystems on our blue planet. The fact that we use and rely on them almost regardless every day, makes them also gradually becoming more and more limited and vulnerable in the near future. A tough theme in these times of global warming and other major environmental issues.

Sonically, what we got here is a fine and fresh sounding album with Berliner School flavours which incorporates some minimalist sequencer patterns, rhythms, a varied assortment of vintage and contemporary synthesizer sounds plus occasionally some massive retro effects.
All these elements, fused together in eight mature "Fixus" parts, are in almost constant interaction with each other as the music gradually evolves without interruption in a kind of ebb and flow manner. At times, even some space music territory is touched, but for the most part, the melodic, harmonious and rhythmic spiced music stands in its own right, although I personally feel the bouncy, groovy part four a bit bland and directionless.

Nevertheless, all other tracks sound tasty and well rendered and very pleasing to the ear, which is emphasized due to the excellent mastering of Ron Boots.
Chapeau, Mr van der Wouden!

2010. Bert Strolenberg / Sonic Immersion

[esp]

nice reviews Rene

[nemal]

I look forward to getting a copy when I get the chance. Cheers Rene

[REWO]

thanks guys.

[REWO]

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This is a good opportunity to listen to the soundclips of all tracks.

Also available as factory pressed CD.

[REWO]

GROOVE UNLIMITED sells the album with a 20% rebate because they think everybody should have a copy. I agree with them.