Elodie - Musique en scène - self released BE 2015 1st press M/M
$17
An underground figure, the prolific Andrew Chalk began his work under the pseudonym Ferial Confine in the mid-1980s, alongside such drone/indus greats as The New Blockaders, a major influence on Merzbow. In the twentieth century, Chalk's music became more affordable and streamlined, turning into ambient music that owed more to the genre's pioneers: Eno, Budd and co. Elodie is the fruit of a collaboration with another avant-garde troublemaker: Timo Van Luijk, master of improvised, drone and concrete music. The music is a bit of all of the above: serene ambient, inspiring landscape, organic instruments (organ, piano, wind...), electronic drone, contemporary classical ambience...