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Title: Floex's first album (Pocustone) now out on vinyl! Post by: Alex on June 05, 2013, 12:20:19 am This just in from Dan Dudarec at Minority Records (http://www.minorityrecords.com/)
(http://u.cubeupload.com/ABoretz/floexPocustoneLP.jpg) Hello, Yes, it took a long time, yet worth the wait for. In 2001 after more than two years of busy work on a proper debut long play Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex (http://www.floex.cz/) could take a rest - the Pocustone album was finally out. Pocustone goes on a kind of risky journey bridging relatively isolated islands such as electronica, jazz or modern contemporary music. This may stand as quite a wild scheme yet this combination works and comunicates to a listener. An unusual sound results in a very delicate instrumentation combining digital technology with the charm of wood instruments. A weird clarinet album or semi-acoustic downtempo? Floex (http://www.floex.cz/) explains: "Electronic doesn´t mean to me just an instrumental, sonic aspect - it is foremost about the aproach of an artist. The way I work and think of wood instruments proceeds in a sort of electronic concept. As for the clarinet - I played it through my childhood so this is quite a natural return to it. There is also some kid stuff like the chime, harmonica or wooden blocks which I found at my cottage-loft last summer." We should also mention guest artists appearing on the album - vocalist Ridina Ahmed, Petr Tichý on double bass, flutist Pavla Palánová and Radek Bureš playing drums. The songs have been rising at Floex (http://www.floex.cz/)'s home Mush Room studio for almost three years and Floex (http://www.floex.cz/) is also the author of the album cover artwork. This way of artistic expression may seem to be a bit complicated. The artist admits that music can reveal of its maker more than originally intended: "People say that I cannot work the things simply and quickly which the both is and is not a pivotal problem of my production. I try to go deep, I am fascinated by ambiguity reached by the most elementary tools. Progression in the way of using minimalistic facility - this is what I am interested in. Basically my music is a sort of folder which makes a sense only as a whole. I am not a headstrong-type, I prefer progression, development, I like to take people by surprise." It was pretty clear twelve years ago with the first issue and it is evident even now when the album is being reissued: this is a timeless music piece that will never sink into oblivion with another hype. Pocustone got finally reissued by Quazi Delict Records (http://www.quazidelict.cz/) and is available on CD again now (http://minorityrecords.com/store/#Quazi-Delict) while LP version, both on black and clear vinyl can be pre-ordered (http://minorityrecords.com/store/#Quazi-Delict) and will be shipped to you on June 21st. Feel free to place your orders here (http://minorityrecords.com/store/#Quazi-Delict). Thank you! Link to Floex Facebook announcement (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151410181506567&set=a.422181251566.200818.345012736566&type=1) |