Mirror - In To The Wood (Three Poplars, 2002)

1 In To The Wood 71:48

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Mirror - Nights (Three Poplars, 2001)

1 Untitled 2:11
2 Untitled 17:57

Sold Exclusively at the Chicago shows on March 30th & 31st, 2001.

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Mirror - Live In Bern (Three Poplars, 2003)

1 Live In Bern (47:13)

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Mirror - Pedestrian / Nocturne (Three Poplars, 2000)

A Pedestrian (4:41)
B Nocturne (6:21)

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Andrew Chalk - Fall In The Wake Of A Flawless Landscape (Three Poplars, 2004)

A Untitled (20:45)
B Untitled (20:54)

Le second travail solo d'Andrew Chalk après Over the Edges (1999), les drones y sont majestueux et calmes, Andrew Chalk se défiant de toute facilité nous surprend sur plusieurs plans, tant sonores qu'émotionnels....

It's been about five years since Andrew Chalk released his last solo effort, Over the Edges. His newest album comes as a vinyl-only release in an edition of 600 copies and not only does it look excellent (the sleeve artwork and the little flourishes on the record itself are gorgeous), but it sounds absolutely majestic. Split into two side-long pieces, Fall in the Wake of a Flawless Landscape carries with it the same foreboding energy that 1999's Over the Edges had, but it also resonates a ubiquitous calm that feels something like floating on ocean waves. Chalk's drones stay consistent throughout, relenting only to reveal more ominous tones under the dominant ring and drag of some timeless organ. The blurred images of the cover bring to mind a haunted spectre traversing some dark plain covered in tall grasses and of unbearable size; no matter how far that figure travels, the disqueting feeling of infinity is always present. Anxiety dominates the album, but so does a sense of privacy. Throughout, I imagine myself as this fictional pilgrim caught up in some endless search and, at the same time, that long and lonely feeling opens up some kind of inner peace, as though I am happy being alone and lost. So far as the sound goes, Chalk's compositional skills are unbeatable. Whenever the sounds become too ghastly or alarming, Chalk shifts gears and somehow inverts them into striking and monumental sounds of great beauty. Strings buzz, organs disintegrate, and whales bellow their songs over this landscape, all in a harmony that defies any easy explanation. This is what Chalk does best though: defy easy anything. Fall in the Wake... occupies several emotional and atmospheric worlds at once: the dense and open, the terrifying and the awesome, and the contradictory positions of both quiet and loud. It's a difficult middle ground that Chalk finds and weaves into music and it's a difficult middle ground that few others can accomplish. This release has me anxiously awaiting the next Mirror album and has put me in the unenviable position of wanting more solo Chalk music: five years between albums is too long to wait.
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Mirror - Places Of Light (Three Poplars, 2004)

A1 Untitled (4:27)
A2 Untitled (6:00)
A3 Untitled (8:38)
B1 Untitled (20:41)

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Brendan Walls & Andrew Chalk - This Growing Clearing (Three Poplars, 2004)

1 Untitled (23:32)
2 Untitled (14:40)

Drones particulièrement soignés et subtils...

Another Australian alchemical meddler, tinkering with devices on the blink, Walls was dissed in The Wire on his wicked Cassia Fistula debut (Idea) a few years back, but the monstrous yet exacting heaving monoliths crafted within caught the ear of heavies like New Blockaders, Mirror, David Jackman, Daisuke Suzuki, and other industrial-strength masters, and he’s now in the middle of collaborations with or remixes of all of the above. The first one to be emitted is this one with England’s bucolic dronescape artist, Andrew Chalk. Clearing is hard to pin down, as it seems to evaporate upon coming out of the speakers, so subtle are its sounds. Walls’ machines buzz like insects over the backdrop of Chalk’s luminous hums, distilling the very air of the room. Like its title suggests, it creates a clearing in space much like you would find out in the rolling hills of England, or perhaps somewhere in the Outback. Chalk’s LP (also on Three Poplars), Fall in the Wake of A Flawless Landscape was also breathtaking.
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