Minazuki 'From Dust to Stars' Ltd.Ed. CD & Book
February 2026
Minazuki is Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough, Hitoshi Kojo
We have the last few copies of this limited edtion of 100, which is now sold out everywhere else. The music has a very delicate 'acoustic' feel. The CD is released together with a beautiful hardback 28-page photobook by Kojo. The photographs were made using pre-treated black-and-white film and multiple exposures within the camera. Plants, forest landscapes, film grain, melted emulsion, and dust adhering to the film layer upon one another, creating images as if several moments have settled onto a single surface.
These echoes the “layers” and “after-resonances” present in the music,
evoking the quiet tremor of memory’s shifting surface.
From Dust to Stars centres on a shared time of music-making in June 2006 at Andrew Chalk’s studio in Hull, northern England—a time that later formed the core of a work shaped over the ensuing years through Kojo’s editing.
In Chalk’s wooden studio—its atmosphere shaped by soft humidity and gentle resonance—the three musicians let the music emerge at the pace of their breathing. What unfolded shared qualities with none of their solo works, yet carried traces of each: Chalk’s strings carried a warm wavering that embraced the resonance of the wood; Coleclough subtly altered the density of the air; Kojo, centring his interplay with Chalk’s strings, folded in overtones and found-object sounds that responded to the flow of the session.
British and Japanese sensibilities surface in equal measure. Pieces shaped by an East Asian sense of time-interval contain a wavering that could not have arisen from British musicians alone, while sustained tones conveying the subtle blending of grey skies and light carry a colouration distinct from Japanese performers. When melodies appear, the two elements blend into an unplaceable, mythical folk music.
Each track bears a name associated with rain—echoing the nuanced vocabularies that both Japan and northern England possess for describing rainfall. Through additional recording in Switzerland (2009) and final editing and mastering in Belgium (2025) by Kojo, the influences of three places and many years are gently interwoven into the music.
