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| Move Records | |
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| Founded | 1968 (1968) |
| Founder | Martin Wright |
| Genre | Classical,jazz,world |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Official website | www |
Move Records is an Australianrecord label that was started in1968 by Martin Wright. It focuses primarily on classical and jazz music, particularly Australian, and features most frequently Melbourne-based musicians and composers.[1]
Composers include Julian Yu,George Dreyfus,John Sangster, Eve Duncan,Percy Grainger, Mark Clement Pollard,Brenton Broadstock,Tony Gould,Peter Sculthorpe,Cezary Skubiszewski, David Joseph,Marshall-Hall,Nigel Westlake,Carl Vine,David Chisholm (composer),Larry Sitsky, Kanako Okamoto,Andrew Ford, Andrew Byrne,Thomas Reiner (composer),Christian Heim and others.
Classical artists includeMichael 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 includeTony Gould,Bob Sedergreen, Keith Hounslow,John Sangster, Emma Gilmartin, Ted Vining, the Alan Lee/Jo Abbott Quartet, Debra Blaquiere, and others.
The label has also released soundtracks of Australian films; the best known isJapanese 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 inManila, theSydney Opera House organ,Melbourne andSydney Town Hall organs, and many smaller instruments from the German-settledBarossa Valley inSouth Australia, and gold-rushBallarat area ofVictoria.
