more from
Moving Furniture Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Saxophone Studies

by Orphax

/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Our shown prices are without VAT. Final price is calculated at checkout.

    This package has the vinyl version + a CD version of the same music.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saxophone Studies via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 10 days
    edition of 300 
    Purchasable with gift card

      €12.50 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR  or more

     

  • Saxophone Studies CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Saxophone Studies via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
JF 17:16
2.
JvE 19:51

about

Side A/Track 1 of this record contains frequencies and effects (or as someone called it "non-harmonic multitones") that do not work over headphones or laptop speakers. It is recommended to listen on a good sound system on high volume.

Saxophone Studies is an album that took multiple years to form. Already in 2006 I asked friends and other musicians if they could send me audio files to make music out of this. This music never really happened, but one of the files I received was some saxophone recordings by James Fella (Soft Shoulder / Gilgongo Records). In 2017 while browsing my computer for audio files I came across this recording and finally took it up to create work from this.
Straight from diving in these recordings I had a clear goal for these recordings. The result is a 17 minute long piercing drone work where due to the use of multi-layering and rough cutting a psychedelic effect takes place. The "non-harmonic multitones" collide with each other in the room but also your ears to create a mesmerizing mind fuck.

After this track was finished I was eager to create a second piece for saxophone, and I was really happy for this to work with my father. So late December 2017 I brought my recording equipment to my parents where my father played his various saxophones for me.
In this work, which is very bass heavy, I worked with all different saxophone sounds but the focus lies on the baritone. Again with multi-layering and here also phasing of the sounds a slow evolving piece grows and grows. Other than the first piece here I wanted to create a more relaxed listening experience, though still when you dive into the details strange patterns appear with beating sounds, from which in the end the melodic parts of the saxophone slowly emerge.

For this album I want to thank James and Jozef for their contributions, Rutger Zuydervelt for the help with the artwork and Jos Smolders for the mastering and advice, and the dear people from Monotype Pressings for the help in making this happen.
It was a long journey with quite some hiccups, but we made it.

credits

released September 28, 2018

Saxophone by James Fella (JF) and Jozef van Erve (JvE)
Composition and music by Sietse van Erve / Orphax
Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
Design by Sietse van Erve with help from Rutger Zuydervelt

license

tags

about

Orphax Amsterdam

non-harmonic multitones

Orphax is a musical project with the focus on minimal ambient and drone music.
In the music there is a development towards microtonal sounds, where time and spatiality are important factors.
In this form of working the eventual result can be a static form of sound where development in the music becomes subordinate to the listener losing any sense of time.
... more

shows

  • Mar 29
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Apr 4
    The Hague, Netherlands

contact / help

Contact Orphax

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Orphax recommends:

If you like Orphax, you may also like: