Moving Furniture Records

Frans de Waard from Vital Weekly wrote a nice review for 4 AM by Small Things On Sundays:

SMALL THINGS ON SUNDAYS – 4AM (CDR by Moving Furniture Records)
One Henrik Bagner and one Claus Poulsen are behind Small Things On Sundays. They hail from Copenhagen, Denmark and create their music using guitar and vinyl. As a band they exist since 2005, “starting with free improvisations with electronic treatments of vinyl records in any tempo”, with a background for both of them in rock bands. Their ‘4AM’ release was recorded during various sessions using very slow speed on the turntable and a guitar played with a bow. Actually I must admit I didn’t realize this until I looked the information up on the label’s website. For all I knew until then it might have also been processed field recordings. I am not sure if the recordings were later on edited in one form or another, I assume so. The music is best described as very dark, very ambient and much drones. Its quite a fine release I thought. Nothing spectacular in the the world of drone music, which is hardly surprise, but its played with some great imagination. Maybe seven pieces/sixty two
minutes is a bit long I thought – in that respect the album lacked a bit of variation. Say four tracks/forty minutes would have made the same statement and most likely a better release. Still, this is a nice release for anyone who loves labels like Moving Furniture or Mystery Sea. (FdW)
Address: http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com

Read Vital Weekly at http://www.vitalweekly.net/717.html

Moving Furniture Records is proud to announce

MFR007: Small Things On Sundays – 4 AM (Limited to 100)

4 AM is an album with dark structures created with guitar and vinyl. Music for the moment human activities are at a minimum. Dark droning ambient music.
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Read what the duo has to say about their album:
“4 AM” is the first full-length release from the danish duo Small Thing on Sundays.

The members’ interest for music and vinyl records led to the formation in 2005, starting with free improvisations with electronic treatments of vinyl records in any tempo. Since then, Small Things on Sundays has refined their signature sounds, and added more sound sources. The duo works with different stylistic challenges in periods of time. Prior to Small Things on Sundays, both members have made music in various constellations – Henrik Bagner played in a free-structure noice-guitar band in the 90-es, which unfortunately never left the rehearsal space, and Claus Poulsen has been playing since his childhood in various bands, the best known is the noise-ensemble Alarm112.

“4 AM” came from a string of sessions using vinyl records at very slow speeds and detuned guitars played with a violin bow. This produced a string of organic, multilayered dark ambient tracks. On muliple playbacks, the listener will dig deeper into the layers of the music, exposing new details.

The title refers to the blurred line between night and day. Did you suddenly wake up or are you still in a dream? Perhaps the sounds will take you to a place of daydreaming. A movie soundtrack for your own inner film.

An other reference to the title is, that this is the hour of the day, where human activities are at a minimum. Surroundings are cast in darkness, but where will be a residue from human-made sources or the faint light from nature. And if you look up you will see a starlit sky or the white smoke from the nearby power plant. So perhaps we are romantic realists?

To investigate further into the sounds of ”Small Things on Sundays” you can approach:

www.smallthingsonsundays.dk

www.myspace.com/smalthingsonsundays

Solo-works:

www.wbaum.dk

www.myspace.com/onthewrongplanet

Today would be the official release day of the Small Things On Sundays release, but due to work I won’t be able to get the site updated with all the payment information today

Hopefully tomorrow.

Though, if you are interested you can already send an email and I will make sure a copy is put aside for you.

Next week the first full-length release by Small Things On Sundays will be released, but now we already have a preview for you. You can listen to the whole album by keeping this open.

Or if you want to skip through the tracks to get a short preview you can also go to http://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/small-things-on-sundays-4-am and click through the pieces.

The album will be available next Wednesday (27-01-2010) as a CD-R release limited to 100 ex. If you want to be sure to have a copy for yourself don’t hesitate to send a mail already at info@movingfurniturerecords.com

Next week the release the first full-length CD-R release 4 AM by Small Things On Sundays will come out, but now you can already have some previews (more to come this week).

For the first track Below The Surface they have also made a very nice video which can be watched at youtube:

Ruaridh Law of The Village Orchestra put Broadcasting On Ghost Frequencies at his number 2 place in his top 10 list for the year 2009.

This got published at FACT magazine and over at his own website http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com/?p=26

Check it out among all other releases.

Red is the color of price by relation got mentioned in the top list for 2009 by Daniel Crokaert from Mystery Sea/Unfathomless on the and/OAR website.

See all lists over at http://andoar.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-of-year-lists-2009.html

Of course here there is also a top 10 of favourite albums. Again this year it had to wait until the last few days to be set. Besides those lovely releases that were released on Moving Furniture Records also a lot of other amazing releases came out. The fight was though, but eventually I came up with the following list:

1. Thomas Köner – La Barca
2. Asher – Miniatures
3. TU M’ – Monochromes Vol.1
4. Corey Fuller – Seas Between
5. Zelienople – Give It Up
6. The Puddle Parade – Origami
7. David Sylvian – Manafon
8. Darwinsbitch – Ore
9. Phill Niblock – Touch Strings
10. Greg Haines – Komarovo

The albums that made it so though until the last moment are the following ones:

Lawrence English – A Colour For Autumn
Starving Weirdos – B/P/M Series 1
Mountains – Etching
Natural Snow Buildings – Shadow Kingdom
Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek – Blank Grey Canvas Sky
SND – Atavism
EARLabs 3 – Helix
Elegi – Varde
Nicholas Szczepanik – The Chiasmus
Celer – Capri
Piotr Kurek – Lectures
Nackt Insecten – Quantum Odyssey
Robert Henke – Indigo_Transform
Xela – Heirs Of The Fire
Cam Deas – My Guitars Is Alive and It’s Singing
Es – Kesämaan Lapset
Daniel Menche – Kataract

The favourite EP’s and Singles of the year

Tomas Phillips – Six Notes
Stephen Spera – 4 {H2O}
Taylor Deupree – Weather And Worn
Ryota Kanasaki – [phonetilosophy]
Richard Youngs – High Sun Energy / States of Time
Jana Winderen – Heated: Live in Japan

And at last there are the few reissues that were really needed:

Troum – Sigqan
Xela – The Illuminated
Richard Skelton – Marking Time
Six Organs of Admittance – RTZ
The Caretaker – Persistent Repetition Of Phrases

It was a great year.

See you all in 2010 again.

Sietse

The Drone Gnome by Jos Smolders got a rating from 7/10 on EARLabs.org. Reviewer Thierry Lemmers says his words about the release…

Drones are a bit like mice. Like the mildly disturbing but indiscernible creatures they are, they seem to have pervaded every nook and cranny of the modern music scene. They’ve been wreaking their special kind of havoc in the jazz scene for a long time now, alternative rock is not free of them thanks to acts like Tortoise, and more recently, they are known to happily nibble away on folk music like it were a big chunk of slightly moldy cheese.

Read more of this review at EARLabs.org: http://www.earlabs.org/release/review.asp?reviewID=1477

Stephen Fruitman wrote a nice review on Broadcasting On Ghost Frequencies by Erstlaub at his website Sonomu.net.

This excellent work was inspired by a bit of quackery known as the ”Ganzfeld Procedure” in the field of parapsychology. A subject is blindfolded and equipped with a pair of headphones playing nothing but white and pink noise – static. Out of this aural assault, it is hoped the subject will discern patterns, maybe even hear voices. Maybe even real voices from the past.

Head over to read it all at: http://sonomu.net/text/~erstlaub-broadca/