Hunter Complex
Call of the Wild and Void (LP)
LabelSFI RecordsGenreElectronic
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*200 copies limited edition* ‘Lars Meijer, aka Hunter Complex, has been making forward thinking electronic music for years now. With each album Lars added layers, depth, and a continuity that blended both the driving world of German electronic music of the 70s with the more brighter spots of 80s electronic. Albums like Open Sea and Dead Calm and Zero Degrees encapsulated a very singular yet reminiscent sound, bringing to mind everyone from Mark Isham to Jan Hammer to Klaus Schulze. With his last full-length, the excellent Airports and Ports Lars Meijer turned a corner into new territory, touching on jazz, new age, and a cinematic lean. With new age legend Kat Epple (Emerald Web) on flute and Aquiles Navarro (Irreversible Entanglements) on trumpet.
Hunter Complex has turned yet another sonic corner with the beguiling and gorgeous Call of the Wild and Void Lars has filled his newest record with a team of excellent players to fill out his musical vision with flute, trumpet, acoustic guitar, and even harmonica. The results are a widescreen musical experience, bringing to mind 80s Tangerine Dream, the score work of Mark Isham, and with Lars’ lush piano work touches of Bruce Hornsby come to light. From stunning album opener One More Drift to the new age beauty of Eagle Bay to the gorgeous closer Inbetween Hurricanes Lars takes us on a journey on the wide open sea.
As Meijer noted, ‘The album captures a quest for inner peace, using natural phenomena, nature, and especially the sea as metaphors.’ Call of the Wild and Void is a wide scope of sonic pleasures and musical optimism.’ – J Hubner
Format
Written, recorded & mixed by Lars Meijer between November 2016 and January 2026 at Grebberstraat, Haarlem, The Netherlands, except for:
Kat Epple: flutes and AKAI Electronic Wind Instrument on 'One More Drift’. Recorded at Kat Epple Studio, Fort Myers, Florida, USA
Daan de Bruyne: bass on ‘One More Drift’. Recorded at Bertha von Suttnerstraat, Hoofddorp
Lucy Valentine: electric guitar on ‘Offshore Oblivion’. Recorded in Durham, UK
Aquiles Navarro: trumpet on 'Voice of the Coast' and 'Eagle Bay'. Recorded by Youri Botterman in Brussels, Belgium
Maarten Broekhuizen: acoustic guitar on ‘The Lure of the Animal’
Wolf Meijer: drums on ‘The Lure of the Animal’
Sjef Huurdeman: harmonica and bass harmonica on ‘The Lure of the Animal’. Recorded at Acaciastraat, Haarlem
Ruben Braeken: electric guitar on 'Losing the River'. Recorded at NSDM-plein, Amsterdam.
Coen Oscar Polack: field recordings on 'Inbetween Hurricanes'. Recorded at Zandvoort-Zuid on June 24, 2025
Mastered by Darren Page at BurningTapes Mastering
Design and Layout by Andrew Crawshaw for Broken Press
Cover Photograph by Gerbrand van Melle
Back Cover Photograph from Wim Wenders ‘The American Friend’
Release notes
Written, recorded & mixed by Lars Meijer between November 2016 and January 2026 at Grebberstraat, Haarlem, The Netherlands, except for: Kat Epple: flutes and AKAI Electronic Wind Instrument on 'One More Drift’. Recorded at Kat Epple Studio, Fort Myers, Florida, USA Daan de Bruyne: bass on ‘One More Drift’. Recorded at Bertha von Suttnerstraat, Hoofddorp Lucy Valentine: electric guitar on ‘Offshore Oblivion’. Recorded in Durham, UK Aquiles Navarro: trumpet on 'Voice of the Coast' and 'Eagle…
| A1 | One More Drift | 5:41 | |
| A2 | Offshore Oblivion | 5:30 | |
| A3 | Voice of the Coast | 7:08 | |
| A4 | Back to the World | 2:36 | |
| B1 | The Lure of the Animal | 6:58 | |
| B2 | Eagle Bay | 4:02 | |
| B3 | Losing the River | 7:45 | |
| B4 | Inbetween Hurricanes | 2:40 |
- Andrew Crawshaw
- Design, Layout
- Darren Page
- Mastered By
- Gerbrand Van Melle
- Photography By
- Lars Meijer
- Written By, Recorded By, Mixed By
