Andrew Chalk
Andrew Chalk has been active since 1985 as Ferial Confine and has worked with many associates over the years, such as David Jackman (in Organum), Vortex Campaign, New Blockaders, The, Darren Tate (in Ora), Giancarlo Toniutti, Jonathan Coleclough, and Christoph Heemann (in Mirror). He has now released a number of releases under his own name which have won widespread acclaim, on labels such as Robot Records, Christoph Heemann's Streamline label and his own Faraway Press label. The Mirror project released a steady string of stunnng, highly sought-after records in limited quantites and Chalk's releases on Faraway Press have followed this aesthetic.
Andrew Chalk has been active since 1985 as Ferial Confine and has worked with many associates over the years, such as David Jackman (in Organum), Vortex Campaign, New Blockaders, The, Darren Tate (in Ora), Giancarlo Toniutti, Jonathan Coleclough, and Christoph Heemann (in Mirror). He has now released a number of releases under his own name which have won widespread acclaim, on labels such as Robot Records, Christoph Heemann's Streamline label and his own Faraway Press label. The Mirror project released a steady string of stunnng, highly sought-after records in limited quantites and Chalk's releases on Faraway Press have followed this aesthetic.
Time of Hayfield
Time of Hayfied represents a thematic shift away from more long-form and slowly developing pieces Andrew Chalk is known for prior to this and also especially in his work with Mirror (1999-2004). It is the stepping stones between two worlds and is sti…
Everyone Goes Home When the Sun Sets
The arrival of a new Andrew Chalk album is always a cause for celebration. Following last years 'A Light at the Edge of the World' (a single piece), the sequel, out on his Faraway Press imprint, finds a new collection of 19 pieces sequenced in story-…
Bright Rivers Run / Shimmer In The Sun
Japan only EP limited to 150 copy. mastered by Denis Blackham.
Calluna
Calluna is the second collaborative release from Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott, and was completed following the duo's first live performance in summer 2014. Recorded over a longer time period than Wild Flowers (2013), Calluna sees the haze of their …
A Light At The Edge Of The World
'A Light At The Edge Of The World' captures the fading essences and glow of 'Forty-Nine Views In Rhapsodies' Wave Serene' (2012), in a single 40 minute piece for electric piano atmospherics. Its predecessor being an album of romanticised vistas, is c…
Tahta Tarla
*2022 stock* Original copy of the long out of print LP album. First pressing from back in 1993, Tahta Tarla is a collaborative recording based apparantly upon long wires strung through the woods with the wind activating some of these wires with each …
Ghosts Of Nakhodka
This is a gem of a recording! A new album, the sister of Ghost of Nakhodka in some ways (Siren Records 2009), but entirely new and different material. 'Ghosts' is all played on a monphonic synthesizer and recorded directly to two track tape. Evoking …
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 recor…
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" …
Wild Flowers
*restocked* Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott released their first duo recording in 2013 through Scott's own Skire label. Wild Flowers saw the delicate surface of Scott's hushed piano playing occasionally blurred by Chalk's sensitive and unique approach…
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 an…
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 …
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 …
Mutsu no Hana
Reissue of a tape edited in 2011 for the victims of Fukushima. Drony and melancolic. Gatefold cover silkscreened by Alan Sherry, mastering by Denis Blackham.
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 inne…
The Cable House
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 …
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 su…
Ghost of Nakhodka
Here's the cd reissue of a 2009 cassette from the emissary of British dronemusik, Andrew Chalk. That cassette, like this cd version, had been released by the Japanese imprint Siren Records, although it seems that Chalk himself did all of the printing…
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, hoveri…