Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk - The Painters Family

Francis Plagne & Andrew Chalk - The Painters FamilyThe Painters Family is the first duo release from Andrew Chalk and Francis Plagne, recorded intermittently, both together and apart, over eight years, in Hull, Melbourne and various places in Japan. Eight pages from the sketchbook, sequenced into two languorous side long suites. He tried by every means to come close to nature, lying in the fields before daybreak and until nightfall in order to learn to represent very exactly the red morning sky of

____We see steps off and float in

I am quite likely the only person that has heard his 'alternative language' enough to understand most of it

Off work and dancing to a crescendo flatline

without living it

arranged chromatically

sometimes for purpose

the arrangements and composition for the Iparraguirre 7 project

Echos Pastoraux documents the enchanted first meeting between Timo van Luijk and Andrew Chalk under their Elodie alias

Fed into lines that wholly move amassing transient layers till the gentle scatter of wires

Ahti & Ahti

sits straddling a borderline in a hypnagogic state of fleeting consciousness

repeated listening