★Faraway Press
The Shadows Go Their Own Way
'The Shadows Go Their Own Way' took easily as long as its predecessor 'The Days After' to complete.After many planned sequences and pieces it suddenly and quite unexpectedly became finished last autumn. Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering gave
the recordings a real touch of magic and we are completely happy with the final shape and sound of everything.Thanks go out to Naoko Suzuki who gave some vocals to two tracks and to Vikki Jackman for her inimitable piano playing on track #11 'Mirages'. 'The S…
The Circle Of Days
Truly beautiful new LP, "The Circle Of Days", from UK sound/drone artist Andrew Chalk on his own Faraway Press imprint. Recorded in 2003-06 and created with field recordings, keyboards, guitar, bass guitar, and slide-guitar, "The Circle Of Days" includes a return for Chalk to his long-term collaboration with Daisuke Suzuki (Ghosts On Water, Lost Shadow, Siren Records et al), who features on five of the LP's 14 (relatively short) pieces. The field recordings, mostly captured from everyda…
The Cable House
Portfolio edition | mini slipcase design with wooden spine. The arrival of a new Andrew Chalk album is always a cause for celebration, and now this record re-appears after a very small vinyl pressing last year. Mr. Chalk has long stood as one of our favorite drone composers over the years, beginning with his early contributions to the more placid Organum recordings, through his exemplary collaborative work in Mirror and Ora, and onto his near perfect catalogue of solo recording self-released thr…
A Paper Doll's Whisper Of Spring
A welcome reissue of 2012's tiny CDr edition of 'A Paper Doll's Whisper Of Spring' by Vikki Jackman, Andrew Chalk, and Jean-Nöel Rebilly. It's been beautifully remastered by Denis Blackham of Skye Mastering and pressed onto 140g vinyl with DMM cut and printed sleeve, plus a Japanese obi strip. Vikki's third album (here accompanied by Andrew Chalk and Jean-Noel Rebilly- playing synthesizer and clarinet, respectively) after 2008's Whispering Pages, is a more reflective collection of pieces, often …
Goldfall
Edition in mini slipcase with wooden spine. "Haunted keyboards extending into the distance, like the recent Andrew Liles The Dying Submariner, this piece puts aside the enveloping blankets of drone for a sparser sound, close in spirit to Harold Budd or William Basinski. This is a superb platter of sonic and visual art." --Synaesthesia Records
East of the Sun
Special portfolio edition - see special editions tab in mini slipcase with wooden spine. East Of The Sun available again though Andrew Chalk's own Faraway Press, complete with breathtakingly resplendent packaging. These recordings originally came out in 1994 as a cassette, released through Ora's in-house label, Ora being an early collective that revolved around Chalk, Colin Potter, and Darren Tate with occasional assistance from Jonathan Coleclough, mnortham, Lol Coxhill, and a handful of …
Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies - Wave Serene
Brand new Andrew Chalk release packaged in an elaborate handmade slipcase with a Japanese language obi strip. Exactly the same style as the recent ‘Violin By Night’ LP, ie. super thick sturdy slipcase/box with a dowelling spine and a full colour inner sleeve. All copies handmade by Andrew Chalk."Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies Wave Serene features as many tracks, tiny sound worlds ;impressionistic views of landscape and indistinct memories, compiled into a musical suite lasting 54 minutes." - Far…
In Faxfleet Clouds Uplifted Autumn Gave Passage To Kind Nature
Originally released on vinyl in the summer of last year, and presented as an extended play single, these three pieces total less than 25 minutes, and while the collaborators have chosen to present the recordings in these versions, the fade-outs suggest there's more to them than what we're given.
There's a lot of movement in the stillness here. The faint rhythms on "Queen of Heaven" are only a backdrop to the very prominent sustained layers of keyboards and almost inaudibly low frequency ba…
The Towering Sky
A new decade begins with a very belated release for us here,that of Marsfield's second album recorded in 2005. Brendan and Andrew already published an album 'This Growing Clearing' in 2004 under their own names but decided on Marsfield as a name for future projects.We hope to publish the second thread of the story in the first quarter of 2010 'Three Sunsets Over Marsfield'.. 'The Towering Sky' is packaged in a mini LP style gatefold sleeve with hand tinted front cover image and Japanese obi.
Whispering Pages
Like collaborator Andrew Chalk, Vikki Jackman's compositions retain a calm thread of memory. The album's tranquil passages seep into your brain as if staring at the sun and closing your eyes tight, following the flashes into your childhood, with the seared edges blurring the line between memory and reality. Whispering Pages floats on a film of imperceptibility almost too thin to grasp. Her tones are translucent at their meatiest but often less so, and though the pieces are evocatively titled the…
Ghosts On Water
"The second full release of recordings by Naoko & Daisuke Suzuki with Andrew Chalk, now titled as Ghosts on Water." Naoko Suzuki (vocals), Daisuke Suzuki (vocals, flute, percussion, field recordings), Andrew Chalk (keyboards, kantele). "'Pale shadow" whispers its intentions to the wind amidst gentle melodies (courtesy of Chalk's keyboards and kantele) whose East-tinged imperturbability attribute a deep thrust to something that, coming from other hands, could even have been classified as an outta…
Of Beauty Reminiscing
Previous LP release, now available as a new version on CD with a mini-LP style CD & new artwork. "Vikki Jackman (no relation to David of Organum fame) is the pianist that we first met in Andrew Chalk's Goldfall, her impalpable chords and notes a preponderant element of that delicate music. Now Faraway Press issues her solo debut, which comes in a stunningly beautiful sleeve, a time-consumed photo in which little Vikki is portrayed near a snowman. One can't escape memory, which is often all that …
The river that flows into the sands II
The seventh release from andrew chalk’s faraway press, offering a series of five pieces scored for muted electric guitar figures, then mutated well beyond the instrument’s natural range via Chalk’s array of time-altering electronic treatments.
Shadows from the album skies
This CD contains two pieces (the first just under a half-hour, the second over 45 minutes) originally “issued” by three poplars in 2004 in some nanometric edition 3 years back. Each are concerned with only the slighest gradient-shift of quiet, hovering tonality resulting in a fine array of upper-partial activity fine for deep listening.
Blue eyes of the march
New gatefold handmade cover. 500 copies. "There's an amazing attention to aesthetics that Andrew Chalk undeniably pays for each release with his name on it. It starts with the music and continues through the cover artwork, packaging, and presentation. The first part of Blue Eyes of the March is a 20 minute long piece which sounds like it was created by a prepared guitar, tuned only to play a limited number of pre-determined notes as they're quietly plucked and resonate for long stretches. The to…
Vega
Packaged in mini-LP style gatefold jacket. Beautiful hand-made mini-LP style gatefold sleeve. "Andrew Chalk has again walked a very fine line between complete abstraction and conscious identification...Chalk steps a bit differently, proceeds with his sound in a fulfilling fashion, and somehow works with his sound more like a composer than anyone else. I can imagine him toying with his sounds like they're clay, shaping them to make an architecture or to plan an entire geographic region. Every rel…
The Days After
Originally released in 2003 as a limited CD-R. It is now back in print as a pressed CD with facsimile sleeve of the original artwork in a mini LP style jacket as previous Faraway Press releases and new insert. It features two tracks recorded over approximately seven years and the second track is now in an extended version here, making the album running time 50 minutes.
Senshu
Faraway Press reissues the early FP release that was a tiny book & CD-R, this time in a gatefold sleeve that compliments the original aesthetic. Remastered CD of three tracks: 'Ukigiri,' 'Koyurugi' & 'Untan' all played by Daisuke & Naoko Suzuki, Andrew Chalk. The first 250 copies will be in a gatefold sleeve.