Tuesday 14 January 2014

Andrew Chalk – " Harvest " (Integrated Circuit Records ICR 22) 1988

This is the mirror image of Neil Young’s “Harvest”, same title, completely different effect.
Two years between ICR21 and ICR22!…but worth the wait. Andrew Chalk’s recycling of his work with Organum, into a minimal version of a thousand bomber raid. Side B’s especially resplendent Luftwaffe Dronescape, descending into a series of thuds and clangs, before building slowly up again to a malfunctioning machine finalé. This is ground-breaking stuff for 1988.
Nowadays everyone and their granny has a Drone project going on.One can trawl the internet and find thousands of Drone based cd-r’s,;but this was the beginning of the flood. Not forgetting the long shadow of Lamonte Young’s Eternal Music Ensemble, and Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, Chalk and his peers developed a more quiet and sinister form of drone, that still echoes on today.
Recorded at IC Studio 1986-88. Special thanks to David Jackman.
Re-worked and newly produced recordings using material from Organum’s “Kanal” sessions.

Track Listing:


A
Untitled
B1
Untitled
B2
Untitled

DOWNLOAD Harvest HERE!

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