In September 1925, seven students gathered in Brussels to form the first composers’ collective in Belgian music history, Les Synthétistes, who sought to distinguish themselves from late-Romantic style by connecting with contemporary music. A lack of symphony orchestras in Belgium at the time saw them composing and transcribing original works for wind band, and through their collaboration with Arthur Prevost and the Band of the Belgian Guides, a unique canon of original, modern music could be heard on the Brussels concert stages during the interwar period. This digital single featuring music by the collective’s ‘master’, Paul Gilson, and by the seventh member, René Bernier, is an accompaniment to the complete album The Synthetists Revisited (8.579135), which includes works by Francis de Bourguignon, Gaston Brenta, Théo Dejoncker, Marcel Poot, Maurice Schoemaker and Jules Strens.