Orphax - Live Circles
Review by Kevin Jones
Orphax's album Live Circles is a captivating and immersive sonic journey that showcases the artist's skillful use of ambient soundscapes and experimental textures. The tracks on this album are characterized by their ethereal and otherworldly quality, with each piece building slowly and steadily to create a hypnotic and mesmerizing effect.
Throughout the album, Orphax skillfully blends field recordings, drones, and subtle melodic elements to create a sense of space and depth that is both haunting and beautiful. The tracks are carefully crafted to create a sense of fluidity and movement, with each piece flowing seamlessly into the next to create a cohesive and engaging listening experience.
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Filename: orphax-live-circles.rar- MP3 size: 7 mb
- FLAC size: 103.2 mb
Tracks
| Track | Duration | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Live Circles | 36:25 | |
| Live Circles Remix | 20:18 |
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Catalog Numbers
- MFR077
- MFR077, MFR077b
Labels
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Formats
- CD
- Album
- Limited Edition
- Special Edition CDr
- Mini
- EP
- Special Edition
Companies
| Role | Company |
|---|---|
| Recorded At | I'klectik |
Credits
| Role | Credit |
|---|---|
| Mastered By | Jos Smolders |
| Performer | Orphax |
| Mixed By | Orphax |
| Producer | Orphax |
| Artwork | Orphax |
| Synthesizer | Orphax |
| Software Instrument | Orphax |
Notes
- Edition of 89 regular copies (this version) and 15 special edition copies with bonus EP.
- Live Circles was recorded on March 23rd at IKLECTIK in London and March 24th at Centrala in Birmingham.
- Reworked and mixed at home in April 2019.
- Circles is a work, or composition, that I have been performing live for a few years now in various instances. I consider this work as a growing composition which with every performance grows in a new direction. There is no beginning and no end, and as such it can continue changing over the years.
- This connects with Time as an important factor in my work. I consider time to be fluid. While we might know time as a rigid form with days and seasons, this is only a convenience for daily use. This doesn’t explain how people experience time, which is different for everyone.
- With Circles, I create a sound environment in which the listener loses the sense of time and space. During performances the audience is often not aware how long I have been performing, and explain that they have been away for a while lost in their thoughts; or as I would call this myself, they "entered the zone”.
- I started working on this composition after attending a live performance of music by La Monte Young which inspired me so much, and where I had this same experience of losing sense of time and space. Not that the work sounds anything like La Monte Young's work, but it did help me refocus again on my own work. Aside from this there is, as in most of my work, a big influence by Eliane Radigue whose work I still consider to be at the top of drone and minimalist work. She remains an inspirational musician and composer.
- The version of Circles you hear in this album is recorded with the ARP Odyssey, MFOS WSG/01 synthesizer and the AudioMulch Circles patch. Both performances were with the same setup, though imbued with totally different emotions.
- In London I was very relaxed, while in Birmingham things were rougher. This contrast probably has to do with the different settings as I arrived the venue at those days. In London there was a positive vibe with a lot of protesters against Brexit walking around with signs and leaflets. There was a strong vibration throughout the city, and you could feel it throughout the whole day.
- However, while in Birmingham on my way to the venue I ended up in the middle of a street fight. Imagine my emotions at walking around with my equipment and suddenly, all these young kids starting to throw stones and sticks at each other right where I am heading...
- In the mix I combined these two different settings so as to capture throughout the whole album both of these emotions. Though, still even with the roughness, the result is a captivating one which draws the listener in and recreates the same zone as people experienced during the live performances.
- Find yourself a comfortable place and have a nice trip.
- Sietse
- Orphax
- Special edition limited to 14 copies with bonus EP and t-shirt.
About Orphax
Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve was introduced to electronic music in the early nineties. After playing around with tracker software, he eventually recorded his first music with beats and melodies in 1998, but soon lost interest in both.
He started researching new sounds and new ways of working always with an organic touch, including incorporating sounds that would be regarded by others as errors or mistakes, as life isnt without errors either. Most of his work is improvised, using a laptop and random objects ranging from keyboards, plastic cups being played with a bow, to vocals. The result is an organic lo-fi form of drone and minimal music.
Besides being organic most of the Orphaxs releases are melancholic and even sad.
Musical influences are Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Catherine Christer Hennix and Kassel Jaeger as well as folk and classical music from India and Tibet, mainly throat and overtone singing.
Besides making music, Sietse van Erve runs Moving Furniture Records and curates concerts at home, at Amsterdam institute STEIM and concert venue OCCII and is involved with SOTU Festival.
Sietse van Erve is a proud user of the audio software AudioMulch and Reaper.
Real Name
- Sietse van Erve
Aliases
- de buffel
- Sietse van Erve
