"Flower Studies", the enchanting third album by Australia’s Blue Chemise, consists of eight intimate, delicate and touching ‘études’, reflecting Mark Gomes’ introspective musings on a series of floral studies by 19th-century French photographer Adolphe Braun (1812-1877).

Behold whither eventually Imposing sounds and a grandiose bleakness Majestic flowers in centuries-old photographs And silences where heather grows

No story, only depictions of flowers Nature filtered through a temperament The suggestion of poetical ideas Nature draws the imagination to infinity

Paysages composés Like beautiful melodies Nature’s great harmony Is that of an immense and divine keyboard

The diffused freshness of budding greenery A cult for flowers Privately eavesdropping on nature To hear the voices of the trees

— Mark Gomes (Blue Chemise)[info sheet from distr.]