Close Cover
Close Cover was written by Wim Mertens in 1983. The piece is used in the 1987 movie The Belly of an Architect, and is included in Mertens' 1993 album Close Cover. At amazon.com, a reviewer of that album asserted: "Mertens starts with his title song, Close Cover. I can't emphasise the beautiful piano strokes that make this his 'heart-felt' song. The following songs after are haunting and mysterious, yet soothing. He plays as if to place you in a time and place only you can visualize."
Wim Mertens (born in 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. Known primarily as a composer, Mertens is best known for his song Struggle for Pleasure. He is also well known for his piece Maximizing the Audience, composed for Jan Fabre's play The Power of Theatrical Madness, which premiered in 1984 in Venice, Italy. Mertens has released more than 50 albums, and is the author of the 1980 book American Minimal Music, which discusses the school of American repetitive music and the works of LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass.
