{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Chasms Accord | type = album | artist = Rhythm & Noise | cover = Rhythm & Noise - Chasms Accord.jpg | alt = | released = 1985 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Electronic, ambient | length = 37:05 | label = Ralph | producer = Frank Harris | prev_title = Contents Under Notice | prev_year = 1984 | next_title = | next_year = }}
'''''Chasms Accord''''' is the second and final studio album by experimental ensemble Rhythm & Noise, released in 1985 through Ralph Records.
== Release and reception == {{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |first=Ted |last=Mills |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000079635|pure_url=yes}}|title=Rhythm & Noise: ''Chasms Accord'' > Review |publisher=Allmusic |date= |accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> }}
Ted Mill of Allmusic noted that ''Chasms Accord'' is mellower than the previous record, saying that this "keyboard-heavy album throbs darkly, but rarely jumps out at you, content instead to muse upon murky, half-completed ideas."<ref name="allmusic"/> Ira Robbins of the ''Trouser Press'' described ''Chasms Accord'' as being "high on drama and low on intentional ugliness, making it a vivid and apropos match for the stress of modern life" and that it "could serve as the soundtrack to any number of offbeat films."<ref name="trouserpress">{{cite web |first=Ira |last=Robbins |url=https://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=rhythm_and_noise |title=Rhythm & Noise |publisher=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref>
In 1996, Asphodel Records re-issued the album on CD as a compilation. In addition to various tracks from ''Chasms Accord'', it contains early unreleased compositions and four tracks from ''Contents Under Notice''.
== Track listing == {{track listing | headline = Frontside Titles | all_music = Rhythm & Noise | title1 = Lingering Fingers | length1 = 1:23 | title2 = Filament in Strata | length2 = 1:37 | title3 = Delirium Tremens | length3 = 6:42 | title4 = Sequitur | length4 = 0:26 | title5 = Bent Metal Forest | length5 = 4:26 | title6 = Schismatic | length6 = 2:46 }} {{track listing | headline = Backside Titles | title1 = Delve | length1 = 2:20 | title2 = Miasma | length2 = 1:36 | title3 = Night's Deadly Leaning | length3 = 1:03 | title4 = Storms Through the Deck | length4 = 1:09 | title5 = Remembrance | length5 = 4:23 | title6 = Last Vestige | length6 = 4:01 | title7 = Andonandon | length7 = 5:13 }}
{{track listing | headline = CD Version | extra_column = Album | title1 = Lingering Fingers | extra1 = ''Chasms Accord'' | length1 = 1:25 | title2 = Filament in Strata | extra2 = ''Chasms Accord'' | length2 = 4:59 | title3 = Delirium Tremens | extra3 = ''Chasms Accord'' | length3 = 3:00 | title4 = Bent Metal Forest | extra4 = ''Chasms Accord'' | length4 = 4:08 | title5 = Schismatic | extra5 = ''Chasms Accord'' | length5 = 4:19 | title6 = Delve | extra6 = ''Chasms Accord'' | length6 = 2:19 | title7 = Current Slaughter | extra7 = Excerpt of side 1 of ''Contents Under Notice'' | length7 = 3:30 | title8 = Spyral I | extra8 = previously unreleased | length8 = 3:11 | title9 = Bilge | extra9 = previously unreleased | length9 = 1:37 | title10 = Slug Path | extra10 = previously unreleased | length10 = 7:33 | title11 = Alazarn K | extra11 = "Vagues" from ''Contents Under Notice'' | length11 = 3:33 | title12 = Remembrance | extra12 = Remixed version of the song from ''Chasms Accord'' | length12 = 4:28 | title13 = Cellar M | extra13 = previously unreleased | length13 = 7:18 | title14 = Lull | extra14 = Remixed version of the song from ''Contents Under Notice'' | length14 = 4:42 | title15 = Monomonon | extra15 = Remixed version of the song from ''Contents Under Notice'' | length15 = 9:17 | title16 = Pluramin | extra16 = previously unreleased | length16 = 3:29 | title17 = Without Your Eye | extra17 = previously unreleased | length17 = 4:03 }}
== Personnel == Adapted from the ''Chasms Accord'' liner notes.<ref name="linearnotes">{{cite AV media notes |title=Chasms Accord |others=Rhythm & Noise |year=1985 |type=sleeve |publisher=Ralph Records |location=San Francisco, California}}</ref> {{Col-begin}} {{Col-2}} ;Rhythm & Noise *Naut Humon – sampler, vocals, illustrations *Rex Probe – guitar *Desmond Shea – percussion, keyboards, engineering *Z'EV – sampler, drum machine {{Col-2}} ;Additional musicians *Alaric – Moog synthesizer, castanets, keyboards, drums, engineering *Michael Belfer – guitar <small>(A6)</small> *Diamanda Galás – vocals *Paul Hagain – backing vocals, slit drum ;Production and additional personnel *Roger Bayless – illustrations, art direction *Frank Harris – production *Polyploid Sam – photography {{col-end}}
==Release history== {|class="wikitable" ! Region ! Date ! Label ! Format ! Catalog |- |rowspan="2"| United States | 1984 | Ralph | LP | RN 8555 |- | 1989 | Asphodel | CD | ASPHODEL 0965 |}
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Category:1985 albums Category:Ralph Records albums Category:Rhythm & Noise albums