Out Now: Small Things On Sundays – 4 AM

Posted January 28th, 2010 by admin and filed in News, Releases
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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.
Listen at Bandcamp

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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:
Solo-works:

A wee bit of delay.

Posted January 27th, 2010 by admin and filed in News
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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.

Full-Length Preview the forth-coming Small Things On Sundays

Posted January 23rd, 2010 by admin and filed in News, Releases
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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

Small Things On Sundays – Below The Surface video

Posted January 17th, 2010 by admin and filed in News, Releases
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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:

Erstlaub – Broadcasting on ghost frequencies in top 10 lists

Posted January 16th, 2010 by admin and filed in News
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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.

Christopher McFall mentioned in top list for 2009

Posted January 14th, 2010 by admin and filed in News
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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

Top 10 for 2009

Posted December 29th, 2009 by admin and filed in News
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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

Jos Smolders – The Drone Gnome reviewed at EARLabs

Posted December 17th, 2009 by admin and filed in News
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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

Erstlaub – Broadcasting On Ghost Frequencies at Sonomu

Posted December 17th, 2009 by admin and filed in News
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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/

Foxy Digitalis Label Spotlight

Posted December 9th, 2009 by admin and filed in Reviews
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Sometime ago Brad Rose from Foxy Digitalis / Digitalis Industries asked if he could do an interview / questionnaire about Moving Furniture Records with me and of course I was really happy to do so.

This week the Label Spotlight got posted on the Foxy Digitalis website.

Label spotlight: Moving Furniture Records
I admit that the way I discovered Moving Furniture Records probably makes me a little biased, but what the hell, right? Label boss Sietse Van Erve has been a longtime customer and confidant of Digitalis, so when we found out he was starting a label we had pretty high hopes. I mean, he was a fan of what we were putting out and obviously I think Digitalis has perfect taste, so… The good news is that Sietse definitely lived up to those expectations. Moving Furniture is off to a great start with loads of soaring drones and subterranean tones from the likes of Freiband and Erstlaub. Based on what he has to say here, I’d say 2010 is going to be a banner year for the label. Scope it.

Read the rest of the article here at http://foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/features.php?whichlh=104