Moving Furniture Records

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/

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

by Brad Rose

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

For all Moving Furniture Records release there is now an action “buy two or more for 5 euro each incl. shipping world wide“. So if you buy 2 releases it is 10 euro (instead of 12 or 14) and if you buy all 6 releases it is 30 euro (instead of 42 or 48).
For this you only have to do one thing: send an email to info@movingfurniturerecords.com telling which albums you want and I will tell you how to pay for them.