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Moving Furniture Records News #6: H Stewart - Dora Elizabeth out now & Orphax live
Nov 2 2009, 19h28
Contents
1) Moving Furniture Records: new release
2) Orphax: live performance
3) Zonderland: an amazing review
Moving Furniture Records
On Tuesday 27th the first CD-R release of Kansas based musician H Stewart got released.
As a homage to her late Grandmother Dora Elizabeth she wrote an album about her life from birth to death. A true story of love and pain.
The following words have been written by Larry Johnson describing the album greatly:
H Stewart - Dora Elizabeth
The passing of a close relative is one of life’s unfortunate, but certain to occur, events. This is even more true if that loved one served the roles of friend, comforter, teacher, and was also a source refuge and unconditional love. Such individuals are never really forgotten, because the essence of their being is forever embedded in our mind. The things that they did and said – the things that shaped our lives and inspired us - endure. Nor are thoughts about them ever absent from our minds or long. A certain odor or sound or even the slant of sunlight at a particular time of day or season might summon some recollection or fond memory of the person.
Dora Elizabeth is a milestone for H Stewart in two respects. Most important, the album serves as a tribute and memorial to her maternal Grandmother. From the composer’s heart to the listener, this is a musical story of Dora Elizabeth’s life. To quote H Stewart:
There are those of us lucky enough to have encountered the gods of our own time, the people who helped create and shape us into what we are and what we give the world. I was but clay in her loving hands. Let us all take this opportunity to ensure that she and all of those who have shaped us never really die.
She sums it all up quite nicely with these poetic words: “all the good things about me are her fault.”
Dora Elizabeth lived some 87 years enjoying life in general but also taking in stride all of the tribulations that such a long lifespan brings. “Comprehending Sunrise” celebrates her birth while “A Ballad for the Lost “and “The Dirt Road” chronicle the hard times of the Great Depression. The “Elk’s Lodge” memorialises a decade long courtship and eventual uniting of Dora Elizabeth and H Stewart’s grandfather. They were married at an Elk’s lodge in Arkansas. The track “Her Love” has a significance spanning the entirety of Dora Elizabeth’s life, while “Cancer” marks the final stage of the story, a beautiful lamentation that brings Dora Elizabeth’s life to a poignant close. The hazy ambiance and reverberating vocals of “Ever After” provide for aural metaphor of a surreal conversation from beyond the grave and track makes for a fitting conclusion to the album.
In addition to being H Stewart’s first physical release, Dora Elizabeth marks an important departure in style from previous netlabel releases on Clinical Archives, Frigida Records, and Test Tube being her first serious venture into instrumentation and is certainly her most musical release to date. Created on a Casio with the assistance bass player and sound engineer Robert Herrmann II, the majority of the tracks are instrumental, but her sweet, haunting vocals are still present, and especially notable is the heart-rending “Her Love”. The tracks were recorded and layered before being processed electronically.
No specific genre does justice in describing Dora Elizabeth in its entirety. Experimental in general, Dora Elizabeth blends elements of traditional musical samples and structures with the highly atypical. In listening again to her prior works, it’s clear that H Stewart is not afraid of testing the boundaries of experimental music and pushing into new territory. Dora Elizabeth takes her and the listener another step further. I’m sure that Dora Elizabeth is pleased.
Dora Elizabeth is limited to 100 pieces and available through http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com and can be streamed for free through http://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/
Go check it out.
Orphax
Two weeks I had a live performance together with The Julie Mittens and Cave at the OCCII in Amsterdam. I didn't mail about it because everything got arrange at really short notice. Though, I can tell it was an amazing evening. It was probably my loudest, most intense set so far. Layers of field recordings with vocal drones and electric razors building up to a massive psychedelic climax. It got recorded but I don't have to recordings yet so don't know what will happen with these.
But for those who missed out on it and can't wait to hear it next Friday I am playing a similar set in Eindhoven.
Here is the press text (dutch only, sorry):
The PAL Project presenteert:
Een avond van experiment op 6 November van 19:30 tot 23:00 bij galerie Kelderman en van Noort in Eindhoven.
Een avond met lekker eten, audio en video uit delen van het universum die heel ver weg of was het nou heel dichtbij zijn. Een experiment van totaalervaring binnen deze ruimte-tijd. Muziek en geprojecteerde beelden die als zowel oeroud als hyper futuristisch gezien kunnen worden. Kom gezellig een hapje eten en relaxen op deze 'intergalactische' sferen!
Line up:
Ruistuin: [Myspace info] Ruistuin is an experimental audio project, mainly focussing on circuitbent electronica and ambient. The project was started while experimenting with a heavily modified Sk-5, and some fx. Afterwards a circuitbent Sk-1 joined the setup. All tracks are sample based, and the samples have been taken from all kinds of soundsources, like beer bottles, kalimba's and trains... The playlist is often updated with new experimental tracks, so you are welcome to visit here as often as you like.http://www.myspace.com/ruistuin
Orphax: [Last FM info] Orphax is the ambient drone project of Sietse van Erve (also part of Zonderland). Influenced by artists such as Troum and Thomas Köner, Orphax makes slowly evolving, emotionally loaded music which takes you into a deep dark world. In the years he has developed more and more his own style and which by now can be described as emotional, dark and heavy drones.http://www.orphax.com/
Staplerfahrer: [Website info] staplerfahrer is the artistic moniker for Steffan de Turck, a Dutch sound artist from Tilburg in the Netherlands, who plays around with crunched and broken sounds, circuit bended gadgetry and electro-magnetic waves… and some weightlifting with powerbooks along the way.http://www.staplerfahrer.nl/
Phase Alternating Line (The PAL project): [Website info] Phase Alternating Line is a new live ‘audio-video art performance’ by Albert van AbbeWim-Jan Smits (20-05-1984, Tilburg The Netherlands). This project was started in 2009 after the video art collective ‘The Video Word Made Flesh‘ was discontinued.http://www.phasealternatingline.com/
De Dj voor deze avond is de alom welbekende eindhovense alles doener Nick LeBeat. Voor dat 'and now for something completely different' gevoel.
Waar?
Galerie Keldeman en van Noort
Keldermansstraat 58, 5622 PJ Eindhoven
www.keldermanenvannoort.nl
Hoe laat?
van 19:30 tot 23:00
Entree/ Inkom?
Gratis of lekker doneren!
I will also have my releases for sale available there, though if you can't make it but would still like to have Turn Loose The Goose I recommend ordering now because it is almost gone. Only about 12 copies left and you never know how it goes. So if you want to be sure you can still get this head over to http://www.orphax.com to get your own copy.
Zonderland
Wowie Zowie as Frank Zappa would say about this one. Preacherman Says: "Kill assholes" got a 10 out of 10 in a review over at Foxy Digitalis. Of course this is amazing and we would really like to share this with you.
Go read it at http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=4912
Get your own copy (only 11 left) at http://www.zonderland.org
That was it again. Soon some news on new releases and such.
For now be sharp and take care,
Sietse van Erve
Moving Furniture Records
Orphax
1/3 Zonderland
http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com
http://www.orphax.com
http://www.zonderland.org
1) Moving Furniture Records: new release
2) Orphax: live performance
3) Zonderland: an amazing review
Moving Furniture Records
On Tuesday 27th the first CD-R release of Kansas based musician H Stewart got released.
As a homage to her late Grandmother Dora Elizabeth she wrote an album about her life from birth to death. A true story of love and pain.
The following words have been written by Larry Johnson describing the album greatly:
H Stewart - Dora Elizabeth
The passing of a close relative is one of life’s unfortunate, but certain to occur, events. This is even more true if that loved one served the roles of friend, comforter, teacher, and was also a source refuge and unconditional love. Such individuals are never really forgotten, because the essence of their being is forever embedded in our mind. The things that they did and said – the things that shaped our lives and inspired us - endure. Nor are thoughts about them ever absent from our minds or long. A certain odor or sound or even the slant of sunlight at a particular time of day or season might summon some recollection or fond memory of the person.
Dora Elizabeth is a milestone for H Stewart in two respects. Most important, the album serves as a tribute and memorial to her maternal Grandmother. From the composer’s heart to the listener, this is a musical story of Dora Elizabeth’s life. To quote H Stewart:
There are those of us lucky enough to have encountered the gods of our own time, the people who helped create and shape us into what we are and what we give the world. I was but clay in her loving hands. Let us all take this opportunity to ensure that she and all of those who have shaped us never really die.
She sums it all up quite nicely with these poetic words: “all the good things about me are her fault.”
Dora Elizabeth lived some 87 years enjoying life in general but also taking in stride all of the tribulations that such a long lifespan brings. “Comprehending Sunrise” celebrates her birth while “A Ballad for the Lost “and “The Dirt Road” chronicle the hard times of the Great Depression. The “Elk’s Lodge” memorialises a decade long courtship and eventual uniting of Dora Elizabeth and H Stewart’s grandfather. They were married at an Elk’s lodge in Arkansas. The track “Her Love” has a significance spanning the entirety of Dora Elizabeth’s life, while “Cancer” marks the final stage of the story, a beautiful lamentation that brings Dora Elizabeth’s life to a poignant close. The hazy ambiance and reverberating vocals of “Ever After” provide for aural metaphor of a surreal conversation from beyond the grave and track makes for a fitting conclusion to the album.
In addition to being H Stewart’s first physical release, Dora Elizabeth marks an important departure in style from previous netlabel releases on Clinical Archives, Frigida Records, and Test Tube being her first serious venture into instrumentation and is certainly her most musical release to date. Created on a Casio with the assistance bass player and sound engineer Robert Herrmann II, the majority of the tracks are instrumental, but her sweet, haunting vocals are still present, and especially notable is the heart-rending “Her Love”. The tracks were recorded and layered before being processed electronically.
No specific genre does justice in describing Dora Elizabeth in its entirety. Experimental in general, Dora Elizabeth blends elements of traditional musical samples and structures with the highly atypical. In listening again to her prior works, it’s clear that H Stewart is not afraid of testing the boundaries of experimental music and pushing into new territory. Dora Elizabeth takes her and the listener another step further. I’m sure that Dora Elizabeth is pleased.
Dora Elizabeth is limited to 100 pieces and available through http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com and can be streamed for free through http://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/
Go check it out.
Orphax
Two weeks I had a live performance together with The Julie Mittens and Cave at the OCCII in Amsterdam. I didn't mail about it because everything got arrange at really short notice. Though, I can tell it was an amazing evening. It was probably my loudest, most intense set so far. Layers of field recordings with vocal drones and electric razors building up to a massive psychedelic climax. It got recorded but I don't have to recordings yet so don't know what will happen with these.
But for those who missed out on it and can't wait to hear it next Friday I am playing a similar set in Eindhoven.
Here is the press text (dutch only, sorry):
The PAL Project presenteert:
Een avond van experiment op 6 November van 19:30 tot 23:00 bij galerie Kelderman en van Noort in Eindhoven.
Een avond met lekker eten, audio en video uit delen van het universum die heel ver weg of was het nou heel dichtbij zijn. Een experiment van totaalervaring binnen deze ruimte-tijd. Muziek en geprojecteerde beelden die als zowel oeroud als hyper futuristisch gezien kunnen worden. Kom gezellig een hapje eten en relaxen op deze 'intergalactische' sferen!
Line up:
Ruistuin: [Myspace info] Ruistuin is an experimental audio project, mainly focussing on circuitbent electronica and ambient. The project was started while experimenting with a heavily modified Sk-5, and some fx. Afterwards a circuitbent Sk-1 joined the setup. All tracks are sample based, and the samples have been taken from all kinds of soundsources, like beer bottles, kalimba's and trains... The playlist is often updated with new experimental tracks, so you are welcome to visit here as often as you like.http://www.myspace.com/ruistuin
Orphax: [Last FM info] Orphax is the ambient drone project of Sietse van Erve (also part of Zonderland). Influenced by artists such as Troum and Thomas Köner, Orphax makes slowly evolving, emotionally loaded music which takes you into a deep dark world. In the years he has developed more and more his own style and which by now can be described as emotional, dark and heavy drones.http://www.orphax.com/
Staplerfahrer: [Website info] staplerfahrer is the artistic moniker for Steffan de Turck, a Dutch sound artist from Tilburg in the Netherlands, who plays around with crunched and broken sounds, circuit bended gadgetry and electro-magnetic waves… and some weightlifting with powerbooks along the way.http://www.staplerfahrer.nl/
Phase Alternating Line (The PAL project): [Website info] Phase Alternating Line is a new live ‘audio-video art performance’ by Albert van AbbeWim-Jan Smits (20-05-1984, Tilburg The Netherlands). This project was started in 2009 after the video art collective ‘The Video Word Made Flesh‘ was discontinued.http://www.phasealternatingline.com/
De Dj voor deze avond is de alom welbekende eindhovense alles doener Nick LeBeat. Voor dat 'and now for something completely different' gevoel.
Waar?
Galerie Keldeman en van Noort
Keldermansstraat 58, 5622 PJ Eindhoven
www.keldermanenvannoort.nl
Hoe laat?
van 19:30 tot 23:00
Entree/ Inkom?
Gratis of lekker doneren!
I will also have my releases for sale available there, though if you can't make it but would still like to have Turn Loose The Goose I recommend ordering now because it is almost gone. Only about 12 copies left and you never know how it goes. So if you want to be sure you can still get this head over to http://www.orphax.com to get your own copy.
Zonderland
Wowie Zowie as Frank Zappa would say about this one. Preacherman Says: "Kill assholes" got a 10 out of 10 in a review over at Foxy Digitalis. Of course this is amazing and we would really like to share this with you.
Go read it at http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=4912
Get your own copy (only 11 left) at http://www.zonderland.org
That was it again. Soon some news on new releases and such.
For now be sharp and take care,
Sietse van Erve
Moving Furniture Records
Orphax
1/3 Zonderland
http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com
http://www.orphax.com
http://www.zonderland.org
