{"id":4045,"date":"2021-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2021-07-18T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T14:38:28","slug":"soundwave-68-orphax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/soundwave-68-orphax\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUNDWAVE : 68 : ORPHAX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s guest deejay is Sietse van Erve, AKA Orphax<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I discovered Sietse on Bandcamp<\/a> and, through him, his music label, Moving Furniture Records<\/a>. Both Sietse\u2019s music the artists on his label focus on drones, experimental ambient, minimalist, microtonal, and field-recordings music. Their music provides yet another example of the scope of ambient music, which is precisely why I invited Sietse to join us on today\u2019s show.<\/p>\n\n

Sietse\u2019s mix continues his fascination who those areas of ambient music. What struck me about his mix, however, was the physical sensations it invoked. I wasn\u2019t aware of it at first, but after repeated listening, I gradually became conscious of a gentle pulse in my ears while Sietse\u2019s mix played over my headphones. That realization was delicious. And when I played Sietse\u2019s mix through my speakers, I slowly noticed a delicate pressure ebbing and flowing through my body.<\/p>\n\n

Furthermore, what was also remarkable was that I wasn\u2019t playing Sietse\u2019s mix particularly loud. Even so, I felt<\/em> the music. I hope you have the same experience when you listen to today\u2019s show.<\/p>\n\n

Sietse has some words about his mix below.<\/p>\n\n

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The Universal<\/em> by The Penitential Station<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

Before I go, I want to alert you that one of my favorite music labels, Other Forms Of Consecrated Life<\/a> (listen to their mix for Soundwave here<\/a>), will be releasing a new album by The Penitential Station: The Universal<\/em> by The Penitential Station. Like the album before it, The Cloud of Forgetting<\/a><\/em>, The Penitential Station continues to delve into the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina<\/a>. The liner notes to The Universal<\/em>explains that the \u201cinterleaving of polyphonic voices explores German mystic Eckhart von Hochheim<\/a>\u2019s pantheistic notion of a \u2018Universal Soul.\u2019\u201d That\u2019s a philosophically heady description of The Penitential Station\u2019s music. Mine is much simpler: it is an extended moment of grace.<\/p>\n\n

Join us next week when our guest deejays will be K\u00e9vin S\u00e9ry, AKA From Overseas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

See you then!<\/p>\n\n

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Sieste van Erve, AKA Orphax<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

When I am asked to make a mix, I always think about what to do. First of all, I am not a DJ. I\u2019m a musician with a record label. And additionally, should I go for some music of the musicians on my label, should I go for some of my favorite tunes, or should I do a mix of both?<\/p>\n\n

Lately, I turn more to the first, as I love the music these people do, and I think they deserve to be heard. And even with a catalogue of over 90 releases, this is a rather difficult task, especially when limited to only 60 minutes.<\/p>\n\n

For this mix, I first selected from 20 of the albums that we\u2019re released on Moving Furniture Records, followed by trying out a combination of tracks and, in such a way scrapping nine selected tracks. The mix ended up somewhere between minimalist drones and warm ambient sounds with some weird excursions to more abstract works.<\/p>\n\n

I hope you enjoy listening.<\/p>\n\n

And who knows, maybe next time I will do a mix with some personal (none-Moving Furniture Records releases) music. There is so much lovely work out there.<\/p>\n\n

Cheers,
Sietse<\/p>\n\n