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. FLAU99
Release Date: January 20th, 2023
Format: LP/DIGITAL
フランスのピアニスト、作曲家メレーヌ・ダリベールの新しいピアノ組曲 Magic Square の中心は「動き」。この場合、移動は必ずしも物理的なものではありません。実際、ここ数年の世界の歴史を振り返ると、多くの人にとって移動と旅行は遠い夢のようなものでした。
窓から屋根や電線を眺め、遠くに見える雲に覆われた青空を眺めながら漂う想像力。私たちが現実に目を向けず、手の届かないものへの憧れを抱いているとき、この音楽は夢想から生まれ、夢想のために作られました。
5分間に渡ってゆったりとした和音がペーソスを豊かに響かせる「Choral」の大胆な優しさから、「Prélude」のシンプルでうねるようなモチーフまで、Magic Square には穏やかで心地よい音楽がちりばめられています。しかし、躍動感あふれる「Perpetuum Mobile」や、ポップな構成の「Five」など、キネティックな動きを伴う曲もあり、Magic Square の中で最もメロディックな「A Song」は、ノスタルジックな雰囲気に包まれてさえします。
アルバムのタイトルそのものが、同名の数学的ゲームにちなんでおり、数学的概念を用いて音楽を創作してきたダリベールの出自が露わになります。例えば、7拍子の「Ritornello」は、落ち着かない子守唄のような響きです。
ダリベール自身が「ファンタジーの旅」と呼ぶように、「魔法の広場」の風景はメランコリーを帯びています。「More or Less」は、遠い未来への希望にしがみつき、その飾り気のない旋律の間の空間は、考えるための時間を提供してくれます。この組曲の最後を飾るタイトル曲は、あまりにも短い間、別世界への入り口であった窓を雨が流れ落ちるように、リスナーを現実の世界に連れ戻すのです。
Movement lies at the heart of Magic Square, French pianist and composer Melaine Dalibert’s new suite of piano pieces. Movement in this case is not necessarily physical. In fact, given the history of the world for the past couple of years, movement and travel remain, for many, distant dreams.
The travel exhibited in Magic Square is instead that of a different kind: It is the imagination drifting off whilst looking through a window, past the roofs and telephone wires, to a blue sky studded with distant clouds. Soundtracking our brief lapses in attention to reality, our longings for something unreachable, this is music born of and designed for dreaming.
From the bold tenderness of ‘Choral’ — five minutes of slow chords richly ringing with pathos — to ‘Prélude’ and its undulating motif resonating with simplicity, Magic Square is scattered with gentle, soothing music. Balance is achieved with kinetic motion-led pieces, however, such as ‘Perpetuum Mobile’, which bounces and cavorts full of life, and the pop-like structure of ‘Five’, while ‘A Song’, the most melodic piece on Magic Square, is washed with nostalgia.
The album’s title itself, referring to the mathematical game of the same name, points to Dalibert’s past of using mathematical concepts to create music. Throughout, shards of this logical order and repetition can be heard as much as emotion, for example in the seven-beat cycle of ‘Ritornello’, sounding like a restless lullaby.
Moving through what Dalibert himself calls a “fantasy journey”, the landscape of Magic Square is tinged with melancholy. ‘More or Less’ clings to the hope of a faraway vision, space between its undecorated melody providing time to think. It’s the title track, which closes the suite, that brings listeners back to the real world, as rain streams down the window that was, all too briefly, a portal to another world.
01 Prélude
02 Five
03 Choral
04 Perpetuum Mobile
05 Ritornello
06 More or Less
08 Magic Square
Magic Square is a quietly provocative listening experience, with an impressive range given its minimalist nature – The Moderns
CAT No. FLAU99
Release Date: January 20th, 2023
Format: LP/DIGITAL
01 Prélude
02 Five
03 Choral
04 Perpetuum Mobile
05 Ritornello
06 More or Less
08 Magic Square
フランスのピアニスト、作曲家メレーヌ・ダリベールの新しいピアノ組曲 Magic Square の中心は「動き」。この場合、移動は必ずしも物理的なものではありません。実際、ここ数年の世界の歴史を振り返ると、多くの人にとって移動と旅行は遠い夢のようなものでした。
窓から屋根や電線を眺め、遠くに見える雲に覆われた青空を眺めながら漂う想像力。私たちが現実に目を向けず、手の届かないものへの憧れを抱いているとき、この音楽は夢想から生まれ、夢想のために作られました。
5分間に渡ってゆったりとした和音がペーソスを豊かに響かせる「Choral」の大胆な優しさから、「Prélude」のシンプルでうねるようなモチーフまで、Magic Square には穏やかで心地よい音楽がちりばめられています。しかし、躍動感あふれる「Perpetuum Mobile」や、ポップな構成の「Five」など、キネティックな動きを伴う曲もあり、Magic Square の中で最もメロディックな「A Song」は、ノスタルジックな雰囲気に包まれてさえします。
アルバムのタイトルそのものが、同名の数学的ゲームにちなんでおり、数学的概念を用いて音楽を創作してきたダリベールの出自が露わになります。例えば、7拍子の「Ritornello」は、落ち着かない子守唄のような響きです。
ダリベール自身が「ファンタジーの旅」と呼ぶように、「魔法の広場」の風景はメランコリーを帯びています。「More or Less」は、遠い未来への希望にしがみつき、その飾り気のない旋律の間の空間は、考えるための時間を提供してくれます。この組曲の最後を飾るタイトル曲は、あまりにも短い間、別世界への入り口であった窓を雨が流れ落ちるように、リスナーを現実の世界に連れ戻すのです。
Movement lies at the heart of Magic Square, French pianist and composer Melaine Dalibert’s new suite of piano pieces. Movement in this case is not necessarily physical. In fact, given the history of the world for the past couple of years, movement and travel remain, for many, distant dreams.
The travel exhibited in Magic Square is instead that of a different kind: It is the imagination drifting off whilst looking through a window, past the roofs and telephone wires, to a blue sky studded with distant clouds. Soundtracking our brief lapses in attention to reality, our longings for something unreachable, this is music born of and designed for dreaming.
From the bold tenderness of ‘Choral’ — five minutes of slow chords richly ringing with pathos — to ‘Prélude’ and its undulating motif resonating with simplicity, Magic Square is scattered with gentle, soothing music. Balance is achieved with kinetic motion-led pieces, however, such as ‘Perpetuum Mobile’, which bounces and cavorts full of life, and the pop-like structure of ‘Five’, while ‘A Song’, the most melodic piece on Magic Square, is washed with nostalgia.
The album’s title itself, referring to the mathematical game of the same name, points to Dalibert’s past of using mathematical concepts to create music. Throughout, shards of this logical order and repetition can be heard as much as emotion, for example in the seven-beat cycle of ‘Ritornello’, sounding like a restless lullaby.
Moving through what Dalibert himself calls a “fantasy journey”, the landscape of Magic Square is tinged with melancholy. ‘More or Less’ clings to the hope of a faraway vision, space between its undecorated melody providing time to think. It’s the title track, which closes the suite, that brings listeners back to the real world, as rain streams down the window that was, all too briefly, a portal to another world.
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