FLAU news: Zoe Polanski, Rayons, aus
new release
Zoe Polanski - Home Alone feat. Kumi Takahara
Tel Aviv based artist Zoe Polanski further developed the track by transferring the melody to an acoustic instrument, infusing it with a warmth and depth that complements the recurring chord and other sounds throughout the song. To bring this vision to life, the artist enlisted the talents of violinist Kumi Takahara, known for her sensitivity and fluidity, to add her unique touch to the piece. Their collaboration began with Zoe's remix of Kumi Takahara's track 'Roll'.
new release
Rayons - Luminescenese/ A Fragment of Summer
Japanese composer Rayons is back with new two singles, The French word for "rays of light", Rayons, is beginning to luminescence again.
On “Luminescence”, with a beautiful refrain of heart-touching strings as an homage to Johann Johannsson, Rayons returns after a long break. Having honed her skills through experience in hit movies, TV anime series, and commercials, her music has evolved to express emotions in a more simple and minimalistic way.
Rayons also presents the second installment of her digital single series, featuring a piano solo “A Fragment of Summer”. With minimal motifs and rhythms, this poignant composition evokes fragments of the Japanese summer. It beautifully narrates the lingering essence of summer, reminiscent of moments after fireworks, festivals, or any special occasion, through the subtle and expressive notes of the piano.
Rayons' music offers a fresh taste that weaves new elements into classical music perfectly.
new release
aus - Everis
Tokyo-born composer and producer aus announces new album ‘Everis’, dreamt-up melodies combine with everything from vinyl samples and smartphone-captured field recordings.
Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.
the whole album is just something gorgeous to drift away from everyday life with. – Elizabeth Alker, BBC3
a triumph of instinctive creativity – Electronic Sound Magazine
serene and subtle…intricate and immaculate – Backseat Mafia
The album is akin to an aural photo book. As the strings soar to the album’s highest moment, one feels that the harmful parts of the past have been laid to rest, while the treasured memories have been brought to the light. – A Closer Listen
"The mood throughout the album, unusually for modern electronica, is marvelously upbeat. There are no moments of introspection. Everything emits light and love. " - Ban Ban Ton Ton
new feature
In an interview with Ransom Note, aus reflects on how the new new album Everis came about.
"“There are so many things out there in certain moments of the past that I have seen and lived through. In any given scene that I was watching or listening to, there must have also been other scenes that I didn’t see. There is something that exists behind me in that setting that I am experiencing. I was forced to remember, having lost a memory, so I tried to find and recreate a new perspective in a different way, retrieving that memory again."
new mix
aus Midnight In A Perfect World @KEXP mix
"an astounding tapestry of fleeting dreamlike moments that weaves together 76 songs in less than an hour."
featuring music from Milton Nascimento, Alice Coltrane, Moondog, Jennifer Connelly, Edward Elgar, Raymond Scott and many more.
new radio
aus guest mix for our friend kidkanevil's 61 Colours, starting in 30mins
new radio
FLAU @HKCR feat. Matt Soulie from Cosmocities Records, Joni Void, and Zoe Polanski
revisit
IKEBANA - When You Arrive There
The album turned 10 years now. IKEBANA, in Japanese, is an art of flower arrangement. Unlike conventional flower arrangement, it often focuses on other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, rather than its blooms, and lays emphasis toward the shape, line, form of the arrangement.
IKEBANA is about minimalism, about beauty in space, and about calmness.
They made up of 2 wonderfully talented female artists, maki and en. Their unique music is infused with a strong sense of Shoegaze and Ambient, but in a very much stripped-down form. Phases of minimal guitar noise floating through the space of sounds, like a wavering light in darkness, with deeply reverbed female voices drifting in to create a calm universe between a dream and the reality.
an album of beautiful, tense, secret dream-music that sounds like nothing else, ever - James McNew (Yo La Tengo)
very clean crisp sound a lot like the now fan favourite Slowdive album ‘Pygmalion’, there are some quirky moments of minimalism in there too like the scraping of a guitar string or the echo of distant feedback. ‘When You Arrive There’ has a very solitary sound to it like Labradford - Norman Records
artists information
aus
Noah
Noire review by I Thought I Heard A Sound
Her voice is like a thread around your finger, reminding you of something important from your past; running from your ring finger into the distant horizon, it is a lifeline by which you can pull yourself back to a previous promontory of clarity
Federico Madeddu Giuntoli
performs 'The Text and the Form' for Bootleg show on Fango Radio
"I perceive The Text And The Form as a sort of essay on romance, and in particular on complexity related to romance. The album is a sonorization of intense feelings of love and loss, with a predominance of the latter. Nevertheless I always tried to avoid any sentimentalism”
Spring In A Small Town
Spring In A Small Town's self titled album is one of the Best Spring Album All The Time by A Closer Listen
"One can hear the villagers welcoming spring: the birds chirping, the children playing, the April showers filling the stream: all to a gorgeous array of beats. More than anything, the album feels like home. "