2006年末に設立された東京のレコード・レーベル。
the nation’s premier label for hushed music – Pitchfork
Flau releases are sonically quite diverse, from acoustic folk to dream pop and complex drum experiments. And though eclectic, never before has a label’s oeuvre come together to so closely sound the way a cherry blossom looks – The FADER
one of the biggest names in the world of really small sounds…the perfect soundtrack to a Sunday evening – Timeout Tokyo
consistently impressive – XLR8R
Flau has associated itself with a signature sound…association with Flau suggests a superior level of pop craftsmanship…What’s remarkable about Fukuzono’s project, which launched at the end of 2006, is that he’s achieved quality control without uniformity – exclaim!
Flau has shown that sometimes silence beats flashiness – METROPOLIS Magazine
flau seem to have a magic touch; everything they put out..has a celestial, positively glowing aura about it that has us longing for more..sonically the label is incredibly diverse, but what its releases share in common are a playful curiosity, an unmatchable quality and a genre-bending commitment to evoking time and space within their sounds – DUMMY
Flau label casts its net across a worldwide community of artists with a particular affection for fragile arrangements and microscopic songwriting…A reliable resource for all the finest, quirkiest exploratory electronic pop music – Boomkat
it combines genuine emotion with a sense of playfulness – Fluid Radio
everyone’s favourite Japanese label and, of course, we make no exception – Going Solo
constantly surprising, consistently stunning – Dummy
un monde de l’infiniment fragile et doux – Ondefixe
one of our favourite labels – Textura
Flau are one of those unassuming labels, which since 2007 have been quietly making their way in the world releasing a diverse range of high quality albums…their roster of international artists blend field recordings, acoustic instruments, microsounds, and voice, in a sound that has become truly synonymous with the label – Furthernoise
worth finding – Foxy Digitalis
grow, pushing boundaries and releasing gems – Drifting, Almost Falling
An inner experience and pure fascination to little things concept and microscopic sounds. FLAU is the latest Label Of The Moment – Otsechka
the Tokyo label’s dreamy and cinematic aesthetic seems tailor-made for two favourite hobbies: idleness and letting the imagination run wild – Solar Flares
This label collects very particular artists from all over the world all under one roof that eclectically holds them together. Each artist is so unique, that you would like to read a whole book about them – PonyDanceClyde
2008-09 London, Cafe OTO
2009-09 Melbourne, Toff In Town
2010-08 Berlin, Altes Finanzamt
2012-05 Malaysia, Black Box Map
2012-05 Macau, LMA
2012-05 China Tour Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou
2012-06 Tokyo, Fujimigaoka Church & VACANT
2012-06 Kyoto, Metro
2013-04 London, Cafe OTO
2013-04 Berlin, Antje Øklesund
2013-12 Tokyo, VACANT
2016-03 Tokyo, VACANT
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CAT No. FLAU10
Release Date: April 29th 2009
Format: CD / DIGITAL
このアルバムは 『funkel』 という、2001年にベルギーで行われたkraak festivalでのJürgen de Blondeとのライブパフォーマンスのために作られた曲からスタートしました。「untitled 2」の音はLucky KitchenのAaron & Sandraから来ています。その時僕はギターは無限の音を作ることのできる楽器だということに気づきました。だから、この『funkel』はあちらこち らで集められたギターのサンプルだけで作られたという、ひとつのコンセプトアルバムということが言えます。
– Kristian Peters (novisad)
he third novisad collects songs that were made during a timespan of more than 7 years. Each song tells it’s own story and describes a distinct emotion. I think that each also represents a special part in my life. novisad is very personal music that comes from heart. That may is the reason why I can’t tell much more about it, because you just can’t talk a lot about emotions. So why not let the music tell the story for you and discover it for yourself.
The album starts with the song funkel that originally was made for a live performance with Jürgen de Blonde at the kraak festival back in 2001. The sounds on untitled 2 came from Aaron & Sandra from the Lucky Kitchen. At this time I figured out that a guitar is an instrument with infinite ways of sound. So you can see this novisad also as a concept album that was made only out of guitar samples I collected from here and there. From an experimental start the album gets more and more intense.
For me this novisad will mostly be music for the time after that reminds myself that all things must come to an end – eventually.
– Kristian Peters (novisad)
01 funkel
02 song 203 untitled 1
04 song 1
05 untitled 3
06 raindrops
07 untitled 4
08 untitled 9
09 tokimeki - pingpong
10 pingpong
11 restspielzeit
12 yappari
13 distant vicinity
14 tine
15 verlauf
16 untitled2
17 kaeri
18 abbildSound scraps of joy – Norman Records
an immersive, utterly lovely piece of work nonetheless- Boomkat
sense of tranquil, effortless beauty…Truly excellent – Smallfish
De quoi joliment refermer cette parenthèse apaisante et songeuse – Autres Directions
une superposition d’éléments émanant de la six-cordes de Kristian Peters qui permet de combiner approche contemplative et petite ritournelle ou bien dimension mélancolique et installation d’une texture d’arrière-plan – EtherREAL
CAT No. FLAU10
Release Date: April 29th 2009
Format: CD / DIGITAL
01 funkel
02 song 203 untitled 1
04 song 1
05 untitled 3
06 raindrops
07 untitled 4
08 untitled 9
09 tokimeki - pingpong
10 pingpong
11 restspielzeit
12 yappari
13 distant vicinity
14 tine
15 verlauf
16 untitled2
17 kaeri
18 abbildこのアルバムは 『funkel』 という、2001年にベルギーで行われたkraak festivalでのJürgen de Blondeとのライブパフォーマンスのために作られた曲からスタートしました。「untitled 2」の音はLucky KitchenのAaron & Sandraから来ています。その時僕はギターは無限の音を作ることのできる楽器だということに気づきました。だから、この『funkel』はあちらこち らで集められたギターのサンプルだけで作られたという、ひとつのコンセプトアルバムということが言えます。
– Kristian Peters (novisad)
he third novisad collects songs that were made during a timespan of more than 7 years. Each song tells it’s own story and describes a distinct emotion. I think that each also represents a special part in my life. novisad is very personal music that comes from heart. That may is the reason why I can’t tell much more about it, because you just can’t talk a lot about emotions. So why not let the music tell the story for you and discover it for yourself.
The album starts with the song funkel that originally was made for a live performance with Jürgen de Blonde at the kraak festival back in 2001. The sounds on untitled 2 came from Aaron & Sandra from the Lucky Kitchen. At this time I figured out that a guitar is an instrument with infinite ways of sound. So you can see this novisad also as a concept album that was made only out of guitar samples I collected from here and there. From an experimental start the album gets more and more intense.
For me this novisad will mostly be music for the time after that reminds myself that all things must come to an end – eventually.
– Kristian Peters (novisad)
