microphones in the trees: elodie
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Thursday, August 08, 2013

vikki jackman, andrew chalk & jean-noel rebily


'Beautiful limited vinyl edition of what was originally a micro press CD-R released in 2012: this edition of only 400 copies is completely re-mastered by Denis Blackman and pressed on 140g vinyl with DMM cut and printed sleeves featuring a Japanese obi strip. Jackman plays electric piano and electronics while Chalk plays synth and Rebilly plays clarinet. The mood is of melancholy memorial refracted through hazy, hallucinatory slow-motion synth environs, with aching half-heard melodies dissolving into shimmering tonal sunsets. There is slightly more of a ‘group’ feel than on previous Chalk releases, a little more interactive but still completely out of focus, with evocatively displaced synth melodies rising from heavens of reverb and tape F/X and it captures the feel of similar ‘reverse’ workings like the Two Daughters releases, the first Deux Filles, Asmus Tietchens early recordings, the classic Mirror sides... while still remaining specifically centred on the Jackman/Chalk soundworld. No one makes such gently euphoric and emotionally affecting drone work outside of Jackman and Chalk and this is another peerless set that combines a stately, elegiac proto-classical grace with spare DIY instrumentation and alchemical processing techniques'. volcaninc tongue

Hacía tiempo que revoloteaba alrededor de Andew Chalk (Elodie, Ghost on Water, Marsfield), y el reedescubrimiento de sus grabaciones con Vikki Jackman, bien ha valido el descender y sumerigerse en su onírico mundo. Como seguro que os ha pasado alguna vez, de repente parece que todo encaja y que siempre ha estado ahí (en la reseña de Elodie había una referencia a These Trails o el guiño a Mizoguchi en el disco que nos ocupa). Sin pensarlo demasiado tengo la sensación de circular por una inmensa melodía difusa en la que cada paso pronto se revela a tus pies como el más apropiado. Esos pasos, sin aparente rumbo, evocan tenues e inaudibles retumbos en 'Snowflake', intermitentes y fluctuantes  travesias en 'Wandering, disonantes vientos en 'Pulse' y nostálgicos regresos como 'Magnolia'. Circulando entre la chamber music, el ambient y los días grises y lluviosos, como el que hoy me ha recibido en mi retorno por unos días al norte. Como todo lo que edita en su sello farawaypress, 'paper doll's whisper of spring' fue una edición privada muy limitada con un artwork precioso y disponible en la reedición japonesa en vinilo.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

elodie

"...the record opens with a layered piece of various wind instruments and as such may count as a drone piece, but other pieces are more of an open spaced improvised nature of rattling bells, small metallic sounds, Van Luijk’s curious collection of small acoustic objects and wind instruments and Chalk's watery electric guitar, along with charming field recordings...Throughout a fine record of shimmering, small melodies, rusty percussion, bird calls and a gentle mood. The perfect early spring record: open your windows, let outdoor sounds in and simply enjoy the good life." vital weekly
"...Van Luijk plays the Nick Drake to Chalk’s Joe Boyd, re-imagining “Way To Blue” as a psycho-spatial investigation of the endless hues on the way to dawn with heavenly choirs of bird song over rolling acoustic guitar that could almost be taken straight from the legendary Hawaiian 1973 acid folk masterpiece, These Trails, or even the music of Harry Partch. There are shorter tracks that feel like snippets of eternal music, sudden streams but the overall feel is wide-open, pastoral. This is folk-based drone that succeeds in joining the dots between traditional rural forms and future-visioned kosmische with a gentle, celebratory aspect that is pure Chalk..." volcanic tongue