Solo album from Andrew Chalk, self-released in an edition of 500 copies with stunning hard card screened sleeve. Sounding quite unlike anything Andrew has done before - yet in someway essentially ‘the same' - Blue Eyes Of The March is a heartbreaking, highly atmospheric setting for solo piano works, all drenched in a sad slow-motion fog of reverb and delay that makes them sound like the final corporeal form of dreams slowly spooling to their end. Two tracks, the first of which is so smothered in a reverie of F/X that it sounds more like a guitar with hundred mile strings than any piano. Absolutely beautiful, one of Andrew's most delicate, poetic and emotionally affecting works to date. Highest recommendation.

Lovingly packaged in heavy duty hard card gatefold sleeves with paste-on inners and textured original art, East Of The Sun is the latest release on Andrew Chalk's own Faraway Press imprint and another fantastic addition to what has got to be one of the most consistently dazzling label runs of the past few years. This one bundles material originally recorded 1993-94 and assembled/mixed at ICR Studios by Colin Potter. The sound reflects more on earlier Chalk sides, with that smoky grey/glass drone sound moving in slow bass blooms and ripples of thick, time-killing vibration all rendered like a slow pan through desolate, long-abandoned cities. Beautiful, emotionally pregnant narcolepsy that you could wander through for days. Highly recommended.

Beautiful album from Andrew Chalk’s partner and collaborator, Vikki Jackman, packaged in the usual jaw-dropping hand-made style from Faraway Press. This is another set of luminous, smeared/treated piano works evocative of various dream states, reveries and forgotten memories while building haunting compositions from a drift of notes, subtle field recordings and odd sonic stylings. This has a more ‘new age’ feel than her previous release, with a slow-motion take on Kosmiche keyboard drone that is supremely affecting alongside aspects of the quietest Haino/Mazzacane sides as well as the classic Mirror albums. Highly recommended.

Brand new edition of this stunning solo album from Andrew Chalk's partner Vikki Jackman, a reissue of the ultra-limited LP that came out a few years ago and instantly disappeared into the deep pockets of Japanese collectors. Jackman's delicate piano playing has appeared on previous Mirror and Andrew Chalk releases but given the space of a whole disc to spread out on, she has created a beautiful, melancholic, deeply personal piano album, combining single notes that fall like baubles of rain with clusters of music box melodies and the kind of endlessly deep drones that feel as if they are drawn straight out of the past. Absolutely beautiful and up there with Goldfall, Nights and Shadows From The Album Skies as one of the best releases to come out of this particular cabal. Highly recommended.