Guy Van Nueten Contact

Contact is the third and final part of Flemish musician and composer
Guy Van Nueten’s piano trilogy ‘Pacman”. With Contact, Van Nueten
has come up with his most mature work to date. Through recording
his compositions in one take he allowed for a unity of time and space.
This is a reaction against the frequent cutting and processing that takes
place during recordings, whereby original emotions become diluted and
the distance between music and listener increases. “I don’t know what
happened with me,” says Van Nueten, “but with this record I’ve delved
deep. I raised the bar higher than ever. This is the crowning glory.”
By the age of 5 Guy Van Nueten learnt to play piano and he became
known to a larger audience as the songwriter and keyboard player for
The Sands, well known for the pop classic ‘April & June’. Van Nueten
subsequently became a session- and live musician for the cream of the
Belgian rock scene, with bands such as dEUS, Daan, Zita Swoon and
countless others. His compositions, influenced by Bach, minimal music,
pop and electronic music, combine a feel for lyricism and humour with
an irrepressible urge for purity.