Moving Furniture Records

By the end of the coming week we finally should see the new Sindre Bjerga & Nils Rostad split CD-R to be released.
Both  artists played here on at MFR HQ on March 8th and on this release you will find back both shows.

Here are some snapshots of the handmade artwork (had to cut 100 photos, 50 inserts, glue all things together, etc.). It is almost done.

The release will be on red CD-R’s and is limited to 50 hand numbered copies.
They will be available pretty soon (expected is September 2nd) and will cost 7 euro excl. shipping.

After several CD-R releases on several labels and self-released Dutch drone musician Orphax presents his first pressed CD “De Tragedie van een Liedjesschrijver Zonder Woorden” (The Tragedy of a Songwriter With Out Words) on Moving Furniture Records in October.

De Tragedie van een Liedjesschrijver Zonder Woorden is an album written in a period where Orphax (Sietse van Erve) went through a lot of changes in his life, both good and bad. Inspired during this period he made several compositions about love, stress (due to finishing a Masters study in geology), struggling with sickness and eventually finding peace of mind. Some of these things have gone and changed, but others are still valid in his current situation. This makes it still a relevant piece in his life and career as musician.

The album will contain six wordless, minimal drone songs.
The album is mastered by Jos Smolders at EARlabs.
You can listen to one of the pieces here: Samen aan het water (master) by Orphax

More previews will appear soon.
The album will be available on limited CD (300 pieces) and in digital format.

Also upcoming much quicker will be a limited CD-R by Sindre Bjerga & Nils Rostad with both artists presenting a live recording made at Moving Furniture Records HQ. This is expect to be out in a week. More info when that is available.

May 23th will see the release of the new release by the Dutch musician Machinist which goes by the name Of What Once Was

The fourth full length record by Machinist, Of What Once Was, comprises of two tracks with a combined running time of 55 minutes. The diptych consists of the tracks ‘mono tone in d’ and ‘of what once was’.

Mono tone in d is inspired by the concept of the ‘Monotone Symphony’ (1949) by French artist Yves Klein. In this composition a chamber orchestra plays only one note for twenty minutes, followed by an equal measure of silence.
Machinist takes up this concept as a premise on which he builds an electric guitar piece in d, with the only variation being the length of tones and different shapes of resonance.
Of what once was is a live improvised piece, a bookend and closing performance recording of a series of shows following the release of the album Viens Avec Moi Dans Le Vide (2010, Betontoon). The piece marks the transition in the sonic adventures of Machinist from guitar based drone work into new and as of yet uncharted territories and unknown spatiality. The red thread throughout the album is the use of electric guitar as a means to embark on a sonic quest for the tension between spatial sound and tonality of field recordings and the, per se, non-spatiality of computer-generated tones and noise and the inherent resonance(s) of the electric guitar and amplifier(s). These aspects all coalesce in the listening space where the listener experiences the sonic and spatial factors inherent in both pieces of ‘Of What Once Was’.

Listen to an excerpt from Mono tone in D:
Machinist – Mono tone in d (excerpt) by Moving Furniture Records

Prices (incl. current shipping*)
EU: 11,58 euro
ROW: 12 euro

You can order by sending an email to info@movingfurniturerecords.com. All orders will be send out on May23th, though if you want the CD earlier you can also come to Kaizerfest at Zaal100 in Amsterdam on May13th, where Machinist will be playing.

*shipping rates change a lot, so these prices are an indication to change.
price is per CD, if you order more shipping will change.