Move Records is an Australian
record label that was started in
1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
by Martin Wright. It concentrates primarily in classical and jazz music, particularly Australian, and most frequently Melbourne-based musicians and composers.
Artists
Composers include Julian Yu,
George Dreyfus,
John Sangster, Eve Duncan,
Percy Grainger, Mark Clement Pollard,
Brenton Broadstock
Brenton Thomas Broadstock (born 1952) is an Australian composer. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia on Australia Day in 2014 for "significant service to music as a composer, educator and mentor".
Biography
Broadstock was b ...
,
Tony Gould
Tony Gould is an Australian jazz musician, pianist, composer and educator.
Gould's many recordings and performances reveal his harmonic view of music and his love of music from both African-American and European jazz traditions, as well as the c ...
,
Peter Sculthorpe,
Cezary Skubiszewski, David Joseph,
Marshall-Hall,
Nigel Westlake
Nigel Westlake is an Australian composer, musician and conductor. As a composer for the screen, his film credits include the feature films ''Ali's Wedding'', '' Paper Planes'', ''Miss Potter'', ''Babe'', '' Babe: Pig in the City'', '' Children of ...
,
Carl Vine,
David Chisholm (composer),
Larry Sitsky, Kanako Okamoto,
Andrew Ford, Andrew Byrne,
Thomas Reiner (composer)
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,
Christian Heim
Christian Heim (born 1960) is an Australian psychiatrist, composer and public lecturer.
Early life and education
Heim was born in Sydney. He studied under Peter Sculthorpe and finished a PhD in music under Anne Boyd at the University of Sydney. ...
and others.
Classical artists include
Michael Kieran Harvey,
Douglas Lawrence, Elizabeth Anderson, John O'Donnell, Jocqueline Ogiel, La Romanesca, Robert Ampt,
Gerald English, Genevieve Lacey, Peter Carroll-Held, Ian Holtham, Miwako Abe, Ronald Farren-Price, Ian King, Sonny Chua, re-sound, Amy Johansen,
Norman Kaye, Collusion and others.
Jazz artists include
Tony Gould
Tony Gould is an Australian jazz musician, pianist, composer and educator.
Gould's many recordings and performances reveal his harmonic view of music and his love of music from both African-American and European jazz traditions, as well as the c ...
,
Bob Sedergreen, Keith Hounslow,
John Sangster, Emma Gilmartin, Ted Vining, the Alan Lee/Jo Abbott Quartet, Debra Blaquiere, and others.
Soundtracks
The label has also released soundtracks of Australian films; the best known is ''
Japanese Story''. Ambient and World Music artists include Dean Frenkel,
Le Tuan Hung and Ros Bandt. The label has specialised in recording classical pipe organs, many of which have great historical interest. These have included the bamboo organ in
Manila, the
Sydney Opera House
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organ,
Melbourne and
Sydney Town Hall organs, and many smaller instruments from the German-settled
Barossa Valley in
South Australia, and gold-rush
Ballarat
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area of
Victoria.
See also
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List of record labels
References
External links
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Australian independent record labels
Record labels established in 1968
Classical music record labels
1968 establishments in Australia