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Andrew Chalk

The Circle Of Days (Lp)

Label: Faraway Press

Format: LP

Genre: Electronic

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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 everyday home/community life, blend with beautiful fragments of minimalist keyboard runs and droning string tones that reach out, rise-up, and resonate to stunning effect, conveying celestial-like imagery of, say, light from another world shimmering in the dark of our own fog-blurred night. The sounds unfold, subliminally freezing/interrupting time, before fading into voids that sometimes leave a peculiar and wondrous sense of longing. Whilst the field recordings feel grounded in the real world, the instruments' rich sounds seem like they arrived from the ether of far-away, deep inside Chalk's expansive artistic vision. A magical and captivating piece of work, just like how shooting stars grip our gaze in wonder. Released on Chalk's Faraway Press imprint in an edition of 325 copies. Pressed on super-sounding black vinyl, mastered by Denis Blackham and housed in a sleeve featuring a reproduction of a pencil sketch by the artist himself, with layout design by Jos Moers. (infinite Limits)

Side A : The Strange Hours/Crescent Shapes/Illumination/Lost in the Forest/
Improvidence/The Silver Cross/Double Windows

Side B : The Path to March/In Summer Aspect/Land on the Horizon/A Fallen Idol/
On the Shore/Second Visit/Threading the Labyrinth 

Details
Cat. number: FP 023
Year: 2014
Notes:

Edition of 325 copies (this entry), plus 100 copies in a special hand-made slip case.

Special thanks to Daisuke Suzuki, who played on five of the pieces on The Circle of Days.