Elodie - Enteha

The latest transmission from the decade-long collaboration of Andrew Chalk and Timo van Luijk. There's some history between these two - their work apart is intimidatingly lengthy, and as Elodie there's nearly 20 record since they started back in 2011. If you're coming to them fresh on Enthea (nothing wrong with that btw: this is hardly a household name affair), it's not a bad place to start. Two tracks at just under 20 minutes each, this is what you might broadly understand as post-industrial improvised electronic music, the kind which you might most commonly find in far flung eastern European outposts. Think Staalplaat, Brunnen, O Yuki, sometimes label mates Beequeen and the Korm Plastics empire... Because it's Andrew Chalk, who's made a lifetime's work out of this kind of distinct approach, there's a hypnotic sense of suspended decay at the heart of these two compositions, slow-moving drone underscored with chirping electronics, and real world static and hiss. Could it all be falling apart, or is it actually coming together? For essentially quiet music, there's an awful lot of textural detail at play here, flitting between the eerie and wondrous, but really mostly just suggestive of some outer/inner plain of infinite horizon. Transportative stuff, and a great place to begin working your way back through their shared catalogues.