Philipp Bückle – Paintings (2018)

Moving Furniture

• Folktronica 
• Organic electronica 
• Post-rock 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Post-classical
• Electro-acoustic
• Ambient pop 
• Glitchtronica 
• Electronic music 
• Field recording 
• Drone
• Post-classical
• Abstract 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Musique concrète

Comment: this bunch of 12 tracks is something which makes you feel ennobling and purgative. For me as a listener this would be an ideal pop case in an ideal world. It is uncompromising and incisive by channelizing familiar and daring where soaring faint harmonies and semi-melodies and exquisite sonic manipulations are seamlessly intertwined with one another. As a punching sonic fist which includes so many layers to be grasped for it needs many listening times in any cases. In spite of it there remains something mysterious ultimately. From subtle piano-induced contemporary classical progressions and broad ambient plateaus and subliminal folktronic and post-rock soars to field recording drenched soundscapes and abstract hisses and daring static. The issue is out of the discography of Moving Furniture Records.

Fani Konstantinidou ‎– Winter Trilogy / The Big Fall (2020)

 
Moving Furniture

• Drone 
• Minimalism 
• Microtonal 
• Abstract 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Non-music 
• Acousmatic music 
• Microsound

Comment: the Greek artist Fani Konstantinidou's issue consists of two sections, however, both of them are about droning, droning and...droning. In fact, it needs very adept ability and exquisite perception to make up something appealing from those highly austere and minimalist sounds. On the other side, if it is an artist's purpose to be staying within the limits of the style it is also a challenge. The Greek artist succeeds in the aforementioned aspects by changing the phases, by minimizing or broadening the linear scope of the droning sound. At times it is minimised down to pure humming electricity, at times it is varied by unstable frequencies. Highly experimental, highly abstract which by its intent reminds of Alvin Lucier's compositions. The outing is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture Records.

Cinema Perdu – Amsterdam CS (2018)

Moving Furniture

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Space music 
• Drone 
• Micronoise 
• Dark ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Acousmatic music

Comment: this batch of 6 compositions is a conscience widening aural experiment with the aid of vibrant peripheral drones, sheer sonic layers and humming static, orchestrated noises and concrete sounds. In fact, Martijn Pieck aka Cinema Perdu is behind the concept based on recording at Amsterdam Central Station though his purpose was not to create a pure audio document. Instead of it he has managed to arrange more abstract, more artificial, more intriguing soundscapes even if you hear fast trains passing by and incisive loudspeakers to announce the schedule. That's good because the pure natural sounds used to mount the perspective for a listener in the middle of artificial sounds of natural origin. The release is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture.

Masayuki Imanishi – Worn Tape (2019)

Moving Furniture

• Non-music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Acousmatic music 
• Musique concrète 
• Abstract 
• Sound art

Comment: in fact, what reasonable to say about this 11-track outing by a Japanese experimental artist? It chimes like your worn home machines were in connection with contact microphones and thereafter those thin, bleak sounds coming out of them were powerfully amplified and recorded. Lots of unstable levels in electricity and voltage, lots of mechanical deviations and industrial spectres are represented over there. No waste of surrounding sounds to be implemented into a miserable everyday's glimpse of a nowadays human being. No intimate community, no close society, just living in an over-regulated and dully systematised existence with silently shrieking machines in the middle of the blocks, waste and cerebral and physical decline called the city (the so-called civilization). Let`s feel more physical hunger for as much as possible to purify and saturate your senses (at the same time as a main measure to avoiding intoxication/diminish contamination of physical, physiological and mental environment). Similarly to this outing (a piece in the discography of Moving Furniture Records) which does nothing to say just reflecting upon something repulsive and unpleasant.

Alvin Curran – Reinier van Houdt – Dead Beats (2019)

Moving Furniture

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• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Piano music 
• Art music 
• Avant-garde 
• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism

Comment: piano music can be represented in quite disparate ways, one could find out different aspects and facets from within it. Given that a listener knows what he/she could expect from it the focus would be set up in a more straight way because the formal tissue of piano sounds is austere and may be even irritating (I have seen a research with the result the piano has the most irritating sound among the instruments). Because of that the role of represented patterns and imaginations of the listener do have a huge impact. Alvin Curran is an acknowledged avant-garde composer from USA by having been experimenting with different instruments and concepts for decades. Piano as his very first instrument to be acquainted with Alvin Curran's relation is something between love and hate, between fondness and repulsion. As a premise before the album to be listened it is intriguing and thereby positive. A listener can perceive lots of slamming series of high, even cutting notes and key changes and superimposed chords which are then traded for almost gravity-free hypnotic explorations throughout long minutes. For a younger generation, or for the audience who like shorter formats like EPs the release may be a challenge due to compositions extending up to a 13 minute or longer. However, those more calm compositions provide something we are done out of – it is silence, it is internal incantation, it is something truly halcyon and pristine. As we see it is possible to create silence artificially. Artistically. Etymologically the words seem to be related on the word "art". And that's it. Furthermore, in the recent everyday situation a well-composed suite can be considered an example of silence. Furthermore, art is silence even if its format may be something noisy – paradoxically it comes out that a noise is not the noise (anymore). Give me (more) choice to get drowned in (more) noise! The 5-notch issue is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture Records (also providing home place for such luminaries as Merzbow, and Machinefabriek).