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ORPHAX
“Continuation”
Words have never been my strongest point. I have many ideas in my head, often too many. I can talk a lot about them, but putting them on paper is not really me. I rather just work on my ideas. ‘cause whatever your thoughts are, as soon as it is out there and people start to listen it becomes theirs. What I might have thought up before, and have as concept behind the music, might not be how someone else listens to it. And that’s okay.
If we keep in mind that my music is time focused, and I love it when it isn’t polished too much, so small errors become part of it, the music should speak enough for itself.
“Continuation” is my first studio album since “En de stilstaande tijd” (2019), and shows a rougher sound staying closer to my live sound. I see this as a continuation of my live performances, though this time with various multi-track recordings brought together as a whole, all done in my home studio “Studio De Baviaan” over the course of 8 months.
--- Sietse van Erve / Orphax, January 2026
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ORPHAX
“Less is more”
With Less Is More we see Orphax return with his 4th live album for Moving Furniture Records. It is a live album recorded at the exhibition Less Is More at Amsterdam art gallery Factor IJ.
Less Is More is released as CD mastered by Jos Smolders in artwork with work Wladimir Zwaagstra.
About Less Is More
In August 2021 Moving Furniture Records curated a music program accompanying the minimal art exhibition ‘Less is More’, presented by Polderlicht at Factor-IJ, Amsterdam.
On this occasion the Orphax performance was recorded live. This CD features the full set – no edits, no cuts.
This live set merges Orphax’s fascination for minimalist art and his idiosyncratic take on drone music, offering warm and organic atmospheres in which the listener drifts away, losing not only senses of time and space, but – maybe, too – oneself.
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ORPHAX
“En de stilstaande tijd”
With ‘En de stilstaande tijd’ (roughly translated: ‘And the frozen time’ / ‘And the stillness of time’) Orphax (Sietse van Erve) returns with a new work that further explores the themes of time and perception of the listener.
The new album follows in line with Orphax works like ‘Time Waves’, ‘2.20’ and ‘Live Circles’, with added emotional depth. In this sense ‘En de stilstaande tijd’ is a continuation of ‘Piano Music’ – also based on the same original piano recordings.
Orphax: “During my studies of Geology in 2001 I visited several smaller villages in Spain. There I bought a postcard with a picture of the village as it was, taken during the early 60s. The picture always intrigued me, which is also the reason I never used it to send to someone. The tranquillity of the village with its small houses, typical church and the sand road present a certain feeling of freedom which up to this day grabs me. It might be connected with nostalgia, or a certain longing for a time that actually never was. But thinking back, almost 20 years after I got this card, it makes me think back also to how in these small villages in rural Spain time seems to stand still.”
This idea of a moment frozen in time, time itself frozen still, is present from the start of the record. And like the photograph of the card, reproduced on the sleeve, the music is filled with quietness and nostalgia. The organ-like sounds, however slightly dissonant, bring comfort and a sense of restive ease. The slow evolution of the work and deep, subtle changes embrace the listener – lets one forget time for a while, as if halted, frozen – by immersion in sound.
The second part starts with what, at first, appears to be quite a stark contrast to the lulling mood of the previous side. An array of organ-like sounds overwhelm the listener at first, giving way to this cherished and familiar feeling of nostalgia once again, with warm tones, unfolding in slow developments, in which more elements return over time.
With ‘En de stilstaande tijd’ Orphax presents a profoundly engaging and immersive soundscape which takes the listener on her/his own journey beyond time – in which time is forgotten, again, once more. A record to showcase there is much room for emotion within minimalist drone music; room Orphax shares with great composers like Eliane Radigue and Pauline Oliveros.
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