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. FLAU50
Release Date: September 23th 2015
Format: CD/Digital
前作『Soñando』が瞬く間にソールドアウト、一昨年の来日ツアーも大盛況のうちに幕を閉じたフランス現代音楽の俊英Ensemble 0が、小津安二郎のサイレントフィルム「大人の見る繪本 生れてはみたけれど」の伴奏付き上映会の委託を受け、そのパフォーマンスのために製作されたサウンドトラックから14の楽曲をセレクトしたニューアルバム。本作のレコーディングには0のコアメンバーであるSylvain Chauveau、Stéphane Garin、Joël Merahと共にフルート奏者Jùlia Gàllegoが参加。尺八や琴、三味線などの日本の伝統的音楽や、Morton Feldman、Town & Countryといったアメリカの現代音楽から受けたインスピレーションを、Ensemble 0の音響的な美意識と感性でもって咀嚼し、前作『Soñando』を発展させたかのようなサウンドに。来日ツアーでも圧巻のパフォーマンスが話題となったStéphane Garinによる緻密且つ繊細なグロッケンシュピールと様々なパーカッションの音と、JoëlとSylvainによる柔らかな音色を奏でるアコースティックギターの掛け合い、フルートの参加によって奥行きの増したアンサンブルは一音一音が丁寧に練り上げられ、子ども達の生き生きとした姿を描いた映画の空気感も相俟って、牧歌的で風通しの良い作品に仕上がっています。
The music on this album by 0 was composed in 2013 to be played over a silent movie by Ozu Yasujiro and performed at the cinema l’Atalante in Bayonne (France). It was written by Sylvain Chauveau of the full-time members of the band for 4 acoustic instruments: 2 guitars, 1 flute and 1 vibraphone. The members of 0 performing this music are:
Stéphane Garin: percussion
Jùlia Gàllego: flutes
Joël Merah: acoustic guitar
Sylvain Chauveau: acoustic guitar
The original music is 90 minutes long, the duration of the film, but especially for the album format the band has decided to record a shorter version, a selection of tracks. Although the film happens in Japan in the 1930s, Sylvain has decided to keep few inspiration from japanese music, mainly from traditional music for shakuhachi, koto and shamisen. The rest of the inspiration comes from more american music (Morton Feldman, Town and Country) and tries to stay as close as possible to 0’s acoustic aesthetic like on the album Soñando (already released on flau).
01 Jùhachi
02 Shi
03 San
04 Nijùkyù
05 Roku
06 Kyù
07 Nijùroku 08 Jùichi09 Nijùichi
10 Jùshichi
11 Jùni
12 Nijùshichi13 Nijùhachi
14 Nijù
a gorgeous, autumnal…For those who’d kinda appreciate it if the world could come to a halt for a little while, ‘Umarete’ is perfect – Norman Records
0 continue to demonstrate how much there is still left to be done with melody and rhythm, even if most of that work consists in emptying out and clearing away; in this sense “Umarete…” is a masterclass in just sounding enough. – Fluid Radio
There’s a poetic purity to the arrangements and compositions that’s strongly appealing, notwithstanding the understated tone of the material – Textura
Fourteen pieces of minimalist folklore developed by a group that exposes each stroke with infinite delicacy, natural records in which the sounds spontaneously are located – Hawaii
imagine you have watched Ozu films, have a hardcore slow minimalist ambient sensibility and prefer sparse tonal perfectionism with an ultra-relaxed but seriously minded attitude. Then you would find yourself quite at one with this music form…The pleasure in the listening is cerebral as well as aesthetic – Cyclic Defrost
現代音楽やトラディショナルな日本の音楽のフィーリングを、“0”ならではの繊細かつ身近に感じられる音楽へと昇華 – CD Journal
CAT No. FLAU50
Release Date: September 23th 2015
Format: CD/Digital
01 Jùhachi
02 Shi
03 San
04 Nijùkyù
05 Roku
06 Kyù
07 Nijùroku 08 Jùichi09 Nijùichi
10 Jùshichi
11 Jùni
12 Nijùshichi13 Nijùhachi
14 Nijù
前作『Soñando』が瞬く間にソールドアウト、一昨年の来日ツアーも大盛況のうちに幕を閉じたフランス現代音楽の俊英Ensemble 0が、小津安二郎のサイレントフィルム「大人の見る繪本 生れてはみたけれど」の伴奏付き上映会の委託を受け、そのパフォーマンスのために製作されたサウンドトラックから14の楽曲をセレクトしたニューアルバム。本作のレコーディングには0のコアメンバーであるSylvain Chauveau、Stéphane Garin、Joël Merahと共にフルート奏者Jùlia Gàllegoが参加。尺八や琴、三味線などの日本の伝統的音楽や、Morton Feldman、Town & Countryといったアメリカの現代音楽から受けたインスピレーションを、Ensemble 0の音響的な美意識と感性でもって咀嚼し、前作『Soñando』を発展させたかのようなサウンドに。来日ツアーでも圧巻のパフォーマンスが話題となったStéphane Garinによる緻密且つ繊細なグロッケンシュピールと様々なパーカッションの音と、JoëlとSylvainによる柔らかな音色を奏でるアコースティックギターの掛け合い、フルートの参加によって奥行きの増したアンサンブルは一音一音が丁寧に練り上げられ、子ども達の生き生きとした姿を描いた映画の空気感も相俟って、牧歌的で風通しの良い作品に仕上がっています。
The music on this album by 0 was composed in 2013 to be played over a silent movie by Ozu Yasujiro and performed at the cinema l’Atalante in Bayonne (France). It was written by Sylvain Chauveau of the full-time members of the band for 4 acoustic instruments: 2 guitars, 1 flute and 1 vibraphone. The members of 0 performing this music are:
Stéphane Garin: percussion
Jùlia Gàllego: flutes
Joël Merah: acoustic guitar
Sylvain Chauveau: acoustic guitar
The original music is 90 minutes long, the duration of the film, but especially for the album format the band has decided to record a shorter version, a selection of tracks. Although the film happens in Japan in the 1930s, Sylvain has decided to keep few inspiration from japanese music, mainly from traditional music for shakuhachi, koto and shamisen. The rest of the inspiration comes from more american music (Morton Feldman, Town and Country) and tries to stay as close as possible to 0’s acoustic aesthetic like on the album Soñando (already released on flau).
