Name: Chalk Hill Blue
Brand: Will Burns and Hannah Peel

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RIVERTONE10X

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Deluxe Version with Pale Tussock 7".

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-10-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5400863017873

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

RIVERTONE10

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Extended format: No

140 Gram Black Vinyl with Insert and Download.

2019-03-22

5400863003913

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

RIVERTONE10CD

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Digipack with 8 Page Booklet.

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5400863003920

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Will Burns and Hannah Peel

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Rivertones

Chalk Hill Blue is a record of electronic ruralism channeling lives threaded through the chalk landscapes of Southern England. Will Burns is Caught by the River poet-in-residence, and Hannah Peel is a frequent fixture of Caught by the River festival stages – both with the ‘cosmic colliery’ electronica of her solo work, and with orchestral place-rock band The Magnetic North (of which Chalk Hill Blueproducer Erland Cooper is also a member.)

As part of their collaboration, Burns, Peel and Cooper walked the landscapes around Burns’s Wendover house together: their chalk-heeled boots tracing shared routes through the rhythms and repetitions of the place. What emerges in Chalk Hill Blue is a site-specific-non-specific record of creative place portraiture; an album that traces elements of a living landscape, and reworks them into something that is as sensitive and finely-observed as it is visionary. Burns’s words and Peel’s sounds – deftly fused by Cooper’s sympathetic production – channel the minute shifts in the air and atmosphere of a place, and their resulting emotional effects. The spoken words and sound worlds on Chalk Hill Blue often seem to emerge from subliminal processes of call and answer; a fertile blurring of collective inspiration and intention circling this abstracted chalk landscape.

Perhaps if Delia Derbyshire’s later years in Cumbria had been happier then a record like this might have emerged from the fells, or alternatively if Virginia Astley’s gardens had contained a modular synth or two. Other triangulation points might include Hans Joachim Roedelius’s bucolic kosmiche reveries, Joanna Brouk’s new age minimalism, or James Yorkston’s ambient spoken word experiments. Like the butterfly with which it shares its name, Chalk Hill Blue is a rare thing: a glorious electric pastoral shimmer.

LP - 140 Gram Black Vinyl with Insert and Download.