Seven track studio album by Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk, recorded and mixed at Kulta Saha and Impression Lointaine, 2016-2018.
Edition of 500 copies on transparent vinyl, including reproduction of art-print and postcard.
2nd edition of 300 copies. Debut album of new project by Timo van Luijk & Andrew Chalk . Percussion on ’Récit Inouï’ by Daisuke Suzuki. Accidental Sounds on ’En Aval’ by Ian Middleton. Edition of 400 copies .
Fourth album by Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk. “A musical fantasy in two movements symbolising the evocative power and poetry of ancient illustration”. Edition of 300 copies.
2nd edition of 240 copies. Sleeve painting by Andrew Chalk. Eclectic ensemble of 18 instrumental arrangements evoking an epic and existential soundtrack determined by the power of momentary destiny and reflective sentiment. Music played by Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk. Clarinet by Jean Noël Rebilly. Piano and koto by Tom James Scott.
Music by Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk with Tom James Scott - piano, Jean-Noël Rebilly - clarinette, Daniel Morris - guitare pedal steel. Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin 0417.
“Having been entranced by both Andrew Chalk’s work with Mirror (and back to his solo works as Ferial Confine, plus multiple collaborations with David Jackman, The New Blockaders, Daisuke Suzuki, etc) and Timo van Luijk (as Af Ursin, In Camera, La Poupée Vivante, and collaborations with Kris Vanderstraeten and others) for many years, I was naturally intrigued to hear about and hear their duo project Elodie. The project formed in 2010, and has spanned eleven beautiful albums already, to date. “Vieux Silence” for Ideologic Organ is their first release presented outside of their own record publishing nook, Faraway Press & La Scie Dorée. However this is not the first encounter between Ideologic Organ & Elodie, they performed at a night in London I curated in February 2012, alongside Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang. Elodie’s performance was among the most delicately engaging and savant I have witnessed… so very quiet, with snow falling in London outside Cafe Oto’s windows, the audience palpably entered a high intensity listening focus. The impression of this vivid memory is striking, considering how spare each of the individual elements present that night were. “Vieux Silence”, and Elodie in general provoke a visual imagination in an instant, perhaps filtered through aged watercolour, tape grain, antique lenses, forgotten levels of listening and observational patience. Each detail carefully considered and colouring step by step, like an impressionist watercolour.” Stephen O’Malley, Les Lilas 2017
Performed by Timo van Luijk & Andrew Chalk. Guitars: Tom James Scott / Korogi: Daisuke Suzuki. “It is as though the storm is scolding the foot of the mountain And the petals of the cherry tree fall like snow The moment fills me with compassion The rains of spring arrive and fall like tears The blossom falls like rain It is a world full of regret”
2017. February 2018 limited repressing. Performed by Andrew Chalk, Timo van Luijk and Tom James Scott. Mastered and cut at 45rpm by Noel Summerville. Lacquer cut, pressing on 160 gramme vinyl. ‘An open door… an exit… an entrance… a new horizon we never know where we are… as long as the door remains open there will be light…’
2016. The fifth full length album by Elodie, here expanding on the first concert by Elodie as a quartet given in Leuven, Belgium in November 2012 with Tom James Scott : piano and Jean-Noel Rebilly : clarinet. “Le manteau d’étoiles” collects ten airy instrumental spheres glowing and evaporating in a universal infinity like any moment in the panorama of everyday life. February 2018 – limited repressing. All albums contain a specially printed double-sided insert and postcard set, printed on 350 gramme cream paper stock. Lacquer cut, pressing on 160 gramme vinyl.
Music by Andrew Chalk & Timo van Luijk with Tom James Scott - piano, Jean-Noël Rebilly - clarinette, Daniel Morris - guitare pedal steel. Mastered & cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin 0417. “Having been entranced by both Andrew Chalk’s work with Mirror (and back to his solo works as Ferial Confine, plus multiple collaborations with David Jackman, The New Blockaders, Daisuke Suzuki, etc ) and Timo van Luijk (as Af Ursin, In Camera, La Poupée Vivante, and collaborations with Kris Vanderstraeten and others) for many years, I was naturally intrigued to hear about and hear their duo project Elodie. The project formed in 2010, and has spanned eleven beautiful albums already, to date. “Vieux Silence” for Ideologic Organ is their first release presented outside of their own record publishing nook, Faraway Press & La Scie Dorée. However this is not the first encounter between Ideologic Organ & Elodie, they performed at a night in London I curated in February 2012, alongside Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang. Elodie’s performance was among the most delicately engaging and savant I have witnessed… so very quiet, with snow falling in London outside Cafe Oto’s windows, the audience palpably entered a high intensity listening focus. The impression of this vivid memory is striking, considering how spare each of the individual elements present that night were. “Vieux Silence”, and Elodie in general provoke a visual imagination in an instant, perhaps filtered through aged watercolour, tape grain, antique lenses, forgotten levels of listening and observational patience. Each detail carefully considered and colouring step by step, like an impressionist watercolour.” Stephen O’Malley, Les Lilas 2017