Continuation by Orphax
Sietse van Erve has been active as Orphax for quite a while and I have always welcomed listening to his new materials.
This one, which is released by Moving Furniture records is a set of four tracks – a first album after a bit of a break. And a one that sounds probably less polished and rougher mix since it is an assembly of something that Sietse sees more as a part of his live sets.
It’s a drone, minimalism put into a cluster of reverberating four tracks that have this pulse and meticulous approach when it comes to pacing the narrative and subsequential adding different elements.
It has an emotional feel that can’t leave you indifferent – sometimes the pathos of it digs really deep with its noble ornaments and precision that leaves no wrong note in any of the layers.
Great and introspective enough to meditate on this one for quite a while
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
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
credits
releases March 27, 2026
All music by Sietse van Erve
Recorded, mixed and edit at Studio De Baviaan February to September 2025.
Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs
Design by Sietse van Erve
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