Tracklist
1 | Bonnie | 2:17 | |
2 | Violet | 1:39 | |
3 | Polly | 1:25 | |
4 | Celeste | 1:15 | |
5 | Melody | 1:18 | |
6 | Alice | 1:53 | |
7 | June | 1:16 | |
8 | Odette | 2:40 | |
9 | Vivian | 1:56 | |
10 | Marcy | 1:14 | |
11 | Jude | 1:21 | |
12 | Sabine | 1:27 | |
13 | Isla | 2:27 | |
14 | Claudia | 1:39 | |
15 | Jane | 2:00 | |
16 | Christine | 2:23 |
Blue Chemise documents the hermetic soundworld of Australia’s Mark Gomes. “Daughters of Time” follows 2017’s brilliant full-length “Influence on Dusk,” released in micro-edition on Gomes’ 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."