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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©FLAU
CAT No. FLAU96
Release Date: DIGITAL: Nov 25th LP: Dec 7th 2022
Format: LP/DIGITAL
イタリア・ピサ出身、バルセロナ在住のFederico Madeddu Giuntoliは、様々な分野で活躍するアーティストであり、ほとんど独学で学んだ彼の芸術は、地に足の着いたシンプルなものです。暖かく、フィルターを通さない方法で、人間／人生の旅の複雑さに焦点を当てています。
彼の作品は、現代美術、音楽、テキスト、写真など多岐にわたりますが、繊細でありながら、それがいかに本質的で実験的であろうとも、ある種のポップなコミュニケーションに明確に同調しており、彼のファースト・アルバム「The Text and the Form」でも明らかです
このアルバムは、11のミニマルで親密な小さな曲で構成されており、寂寞感漂うピアノの断片、密やかに爪弾かれるギター、スポークン・ワード、細やかなボーカルが、加工されたマイクロ・サウンドとフィールド・レコーディングと共鳴し、ロマンスとミステリーへの簡潔で、深遠な旅を作り出しています。
「このアルバムは、洗練とレイヤリングの緩やかなプロセスに従って形作られ、10年以上にわたる長い間、邪魔されることなく、しばしば自分の意志に反して、最終的な形に到達するために組み立てられたものです。この作品に関連性を見出すことができるとすれば、それは、稀な脆弱性、憧れ、生き生きとした感覚、即興性と脆さの芳香が、説明しがたい完璧な印象と混ざり合ったものを提供する能力にあると言えるでしょう」
Federico Madeddu Giuntoli is an italian multidisciplinary artist. Mostly autodidact, his art is based on groundedness and simplicity, and focused on the complexity of human journey in a non aggressive, warm and unfiltered way.
His works, ranging from contemporary art, music, writing and photography, are usually delicate and subtle, yet unequivocally tuned into a certain kind of pop communication, however essential and experimental it may be.
“The text and the form” is his first solo album, featuring legendary german e-poetess Antye Greie aka AGF and Japanese artist Moskitoo.
The album is a collection of 11 minimal and intimate short songs, in which piano fragments, lonely guitar solos, spoken words and evocative vocals resonate with processed microsounds and lo-fi field recordings, creating a concise and very deep journey into romance and sense of mystery.
In the artist’s words, “the album shaped itself according to a loose process of refinement and layering. A long, undisturbed assembling across more then a decade, often against my own will to reach a definitive form. If any relevance in this work can be found, I would say it resides in its capability to deliver a rare sense of vulnerability, longing and aliveness together, an of improvisation and instability mixed with a unexplicable impression of perfection”.
01 lolita
02 text and the form (feat. Moskitoo)
03 #8
05 flow
06 inverse
07 our bcn nights
08 unconditional
09 h theatre
10 unconditional (reprise)
11 grand hall of encounters
it all disappears back into the ether before we can exhale, leaving us desperately wanting more – Foxy Digitalis
音と音が別レイヤーで鳴っているようでありながら、ハーモニーとは違う音の重なりの調和を聴かせてくれる…清潔な音空間のなかを、ピアノやギター、声などのサウンドのフラグメンツが舞うような美しい音響空間がここにはある。これぞ新しい時代のマイクロスコピック・サウンド – ele-king
A completely non-aggressive, quiet and delicate sound study with countless subtleties to be discovered – Groove
fragile and graceful, but also bright and curious – Gezeitenstrom
Melancholic suavety (7.6) – Blow Up
A nourishing sap, distilled with unusual grace and able to strike right at the heart – Triste Sunset
An intimism not at all self-referential, that instead communicates – even with a use of words that is definitely marginal – precious feelings of individual and universal peace – Music Won’t Save You (ALBUM OF THE WEEK!)
CAT No. FLAU96
Release Date: DIGITAL: Nov 25th LP: Dec 7th 2022
Format: LP/DIGITAL
01 lolita
02 text and the form (feat. Moskitoo)
03 #8
05 flow
06 inverse
07 our bcn nights
08 unconditional
09 h theatre
10 unconditional (reprise)
11 grand hall of encounters
イタリア・ピサ出身、バルセロナ在住のFederico Madeddu Giuntoliは、様々な分野で活躍するアーティストであり、ほとんど独学で学んだ彼の芸術は、地に足の着いたシンプルなものです。暖かく、フィルターを通さない方法で、人間／人生の旅の複雑さに焦点を当てています。
彼の作品は、現代美術、音楽、テキスト、写真など多岐にわたりますが、繊細でありながら、それがいかに本質的で実験的であろうとも、ある種のポップなコミュニケーションに明確に同調しており、彼のファースト・アルバム「The Text and the Form」でも明らかです
このアルバムは、11のミニマルで親密な小さな曲で構成されており、寂寞感漂うピアノの断片、密やかに爪弾かれるギター、スポークン・ワード、細やかなボーカルが、加工されたマイクロ・サウンドとフィールド・レコーディングと共鳴し、ロマンスとミステリーへの簡潔で、深遠な旅を作り出しています。
「このアルバムは、洗練とレイヤリングの緩やかなプロセスに従って形作られ、10年以上にわたる長い間、邪魔されることなく、しばしば自分の意志に反して、最終的な形に到達するために組み立てられたものです。この作品に関連性を見出すことができるとすれば、それは、稀な脆弱性、憧れ、生き生きとした感覚、即興性と脆さの芳香が、説明しがたい完璧な印象と混ざり合ったものを提供する能力にあると言えるでしょう」
Federico Madeddu Giuntoli is an italian multidisciplinary artist. Mostly autodidact, his art is based on groundedness and simplicity, and focused on the complexity of human journey in a non aggressive, warm and unfiltered way.
His works, ranging from contemporary art, music, writing and photography, are usually delicate and subtle, yet unequivocally tuned into a certain kind of pop communication, however essential and experimental it may be.
“The text and the form” is his first solo album, featuring legendary german e-poetess Antye Greie aka AGF and Japanese artist Moskitoo.
The album is a collection of 11 minimal and intimate short songs, in which piano fragments, lonely guitar solos, spoken words and evocative vocals resonate with processed microsounds and lo-fi field recordings, creating a concise and very deep journey into romance and sense of mystery.
In the artist’s words, “the album shaped itself according to a loose process of refinement and layering. A long, undisturbed assembling across more then a decade, often against my own will to reach a definitive form. If any relevance in this work can be found, I would say it resides in its capability to deliver a rare sense of vulnerability, longing and aliveness together, an of improvisation and instability mixed with a unexplicable impression of perfection”.
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