Echos Pastoraux documents the enchanted first meeting between Timo van Luijk and Andrew Chalk under their Elodie alias.

Introduced to us in the same stroke as their most recent - and relatively moodier, nocturnal - side, 'Traces Ephémeres', this one is blissfully pastoral and wishfully oneiric, framing a natural ecology of field recordings, strings and wheezing, far-flung folk drones across its 13 tracks. Rather than many pastoral-minded releases which can be located by their musical make-up, 'Echos Pastoraux' seems to convene a sort of pan-pastoral aesthetic, hinting at stately Korean classical strings, as well as what we'd possibly identify as eastern gypsy music or Klezmer tones, along with wistful baroque and raga-like drones.

The common, unifying aspect is a hazy sense of shared space and intention, resulting a richly enigmatic trip that's meant to be absorbed deeply and slowly, preferably with the windows open and birds joining in from outside.