Circle of Days 4

Featuring Tom James Scott & Timo van Luijk
The music on this tape is either beautiful and enigmatic. Chalk blurs and bends single notes and spare clusters from a piano, wavering between lyrical statements and overtone-rich abstraction. He slows and spaces the rich organ-type tones so that the piece constantly refreshes itself, folding its endings into its beginnings and vice versa. The dynamics might be the opposite of traditional noise and drone pieces, but the effect is strangely similar – albeit heightened and more nuanced. The mind empties, your biorhythms adapt to Chalk’s excruciatingly slow pace, and you become aware only of where individual sounds begin and end
This is sculptural, present music, for which background details ultimately seem superfluous, and which makes the past as well as the future feel entirely open