'You're Alone in Red Riding Picture', 'All Things to Fall Like Marching Men', and 'On Waving and Drowning' by Isolde are all now sold out.

Many thanks for your interest and support.

Robin x

On Poverty

Unusual approach to bodies.
On the watch for the most imperceptible, the most inward movements.

Robert Bresson, Notes on Cinematography

Only Loved At Night

A beauty only loved at night
At daytime a face full of marks
Her eyes have been in flames all night
The sun won't have eyes for her again
Only loved at night, the lady in the dark

Knew the size of tall buildings
How dear a day-kiss could be
Those buildings that saw all the airplanes
That kissed the air in vain fantasy
Only loved at night, the lady in the dark

Didn't her eyes reflect all of this?
Why couldn't they look into her eyes?
Didn't each night love her another time?
Male nights and sometimes female

Boys loved her at night
Girls loved her in the dark

Ana Da Silva, from The Raincoats Odyshape

(PP001)

Isolde - On Waving and Drowning (PP004)

The 1st full length album by Isolde (Andrew Chalk and Robin Barnes), 'On Waving and Drowning'. 500 CD copies in letterpressed, custom made gatefold card sleeves. Mastered by Carl Saff.
Fortunately, like children facing a policeman, robber, or puppet show judge, we keep bursting out laughing. It's an old story, and with it, everything begins again and again: a child to kill, our delivery to go through.
Serge Leclair, A Child is Being Killed

Isolde - You're Alone in Red Riding Picture (PP002)

The 1st 'available' release by Isolde (Andrew Chalk and Robin Barnes), after a metal cassette released in an edition of 30. A 3" CD released in an edition of 500 signed copies, in handmade packaging. Full length album by Isolde released early 2006. A stolen glance at the day setting down it's golden period, and as brief for this very reason. Are you alone in the world? No, you're alone in red riding picture.

Isolde - Untitled Metal Cassette (PP003)

Edition of 30 signed and numbered copies in a handmade slipcase. Sadly, it is unfortunate that these instructions should be read at all, as their necessity deputes their very reason. Originally of course, they would have been read to us. Slow are we indeed, and what arrives fits the remit of what we have never once attempted to leave behind in the past. Ever gradually we have been walking away from this for as great a number of years as our life's suffice.