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Andrew Chalk had debuted in 1985 with the
free-form industrial noise of his project Ferial Confine, documented on
Meiosis (Broken Flag, 1985) and The Full Use Of Nothing (Fusetron, 1985) before evolving into the less extreme soundpainting of
First, Second And Third Drop (1986). He also
contributed to David Jackman's Organum,
and joined the British collective Ora in 1991.
Chalk emerged solo with the crystalline, shimmering ambient music of
(b>East of the Sun (1997), containing Winter Arc (1994) and The Plain (1996),
and soon became a specialist of ringing overtones.
His pre-Ora works is documented on two anthologies:
Crescent (2000) collects the cassettes Crescent (1986) and Harvest (1988), whereas
Tahta Tarla (1993) collects Tienalauami (1988) and Warkswood (1988).
Over the Edges (1999) contains three untiled works of 1997 obtained by exciting only two strings of an acoustic guitar with an e-bow (an experiment along the lines of old ideas by Alvin Lucier and Ellen Fullman).
Sumac (1999) documents a 71-minute collaboration from 1997 between Jonathan Coleclough and Andrew Chalk.
This Growing Clearing (2004) documents a collaboration between Brendan Walls and Andrew Chalk.
Fall In The Wake Of A Flawless Landscape (2004) contains one 41-minute track.
The 74-minute two-movement droning symphony of Shadows From The Album Skies (2004) is devoted to extended droning-guitar monoliths whose overtones hark back to the experiments of Phill Niblock and Eliane Radigue.
The River That Flows Into The Sands (2005) and The River That Flows Into The Sands II (2006) explore oneiric and ghostly guitar soundscapes.
Blue Eyes Of The March (2006) is a 51-minute suite for solo piano.
Mirror is a prolific collaboration between Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk
that has rarely produced major works. The first one,
Eye Of The Storm (1999), built out of
manipulated natural sounds, ringing percussion, fluttering electronics and
Heeman's sustained bowing drones,
would have been enough to make the point.
The deluge of releases that followed was hardly justified by the narrow concept:
Ringstones (1999), Mirror of The Sea (2000), Front Row Centre (2000), Nightwalkers (2000), The View (2000), Visiting Star (2000), I Paint For Love Of Color (2001), Islands (2001), Nights (2001), Die Spiegelmanufaktur (2002) with Jim O'Rourke,
Nights (2002), Solaris (2002), that introduced elements of
dissonant avantgarde music,
A Pilgrim's Solace (2003),
Figures In A Landscape (2004), Places Of Light (2004), Under The Sun (2004), Nightwalkers (2005)
with Andreas Martin,
Still Valley (2005), the denser
Viking Burial For A French Car (2005).
Goldfall (2006) and the inferior Time Of Hayfield (2007) manipulate piano notes by Vikki Jackman.
Vega (2006) turned to a more ethereal atmosphere.
The Days After (2007) collects Mirror works from the early 2000s.
Isolde is the duo of Andrew Chalk and Robin Barnes that released
All Things To Fall Like Marching Men (Penny Poppet, 2005),
You're Alone In Red Riding Picture (2005) and
On Waving And Drowning (Penny Poppet, 2006).
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