Andrew Chalk’s album »Mosaics« is made up of 36 scene-pieces with a strong drone influence. Incidental music, or »Inzidenzmusik«, is present in these sections, coinciding with a general form. Mark Lubbock had written that one type of incidental music is that which has not been specifically composed to be included in a theatrical act or, we might imagine, a film, although it maintains a certain subsidiary character. The magic of this album is a bit of a reminder of this independent quality, which, while it may refer us to the imagery of a complete, gestalt scene, should not prevent us […]