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BAADM 013LP
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Flower Studies, the enchanting third album by Australia's Blue Chemise, consists of eight intimate, delicate and touching "études", reflecting Mark Gomes's introspective musings on a series of floral studies by 19th-century French photographer Adolphe Braun (1812-1877). Includes download code; edition of 450.
"Behold whither eventually/ Imposing sounds and a grandiose bleakness/ Majestic flowers in centuries-old photographs/ And silences where heather grows/ No story, only depictions of flowers/ Nature filtered through a temperament/ The suggestion of poetical ideas/ Nature draws the imagination to infinity/ Paysages composes/ Like beautiful melodies/ Nature's great harmony/ Is that of an immense and divine keyboard/ The diffused freshness of budding greenery/ A cult for flowers/ Privately eavesdropping on nature/ To hear the voices of the trees" --Mark Gomes (Blue Chemise).
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SOD 120LP
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2022 restock. Blue Chemise documents the hermetic sound world of Australia's Mark Gomes. Daughters Of Time follows 2017's brilliant full-length Influence On Dusk, released in micro-edition on Gomes's own Greedy Ventilator imprint. It is an elegiac set of vignettes recorded straight to dictaphone with minimal post-production. These pieces function in a manner akin to Loren Connor's evocative "airs", conjuring poignant, intangible senses of longing and nostalgia then disappearing well before overstaying their welcome. Regarding their genesis, Gomes points to a quote from Australian artist Robert Hunter: "It's like I'm external to them. They develop their own assertion and character; their becoming finished is a thing they decide themselves. It's unexplainable."
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