Integer Valor Intégrale (1998)

"This music is mostly instrumental, with little vocal on the last track. Once again Wim Mertens proves that he is able to write very beautiful and sublime music which you want to listen again and again. (...) If you like Wim Mertens' ensemble work, you will LOVE this 3-CD set... it's simply the best work he has ever done. Complex, melodic, always interesting. (...) "Integer Valor Intégrale" is three hours of some of the most astonishing music you are likely to hear. Wim Mertens is neither 'New Age' nor 'minimalist' but a contempory composer like no other. This album is written for an ensemble containing horns, tuba, strings, harp, guitar, and keyboard. Wim Mertens consistently compresses beauty into compositions that are uniquely his own. He is not well known despite many years of composing prolificly, because he records for an obscure independent label in Belgium which has been poorly distributed and promoted." (gebruikersreviews Amazon)