FLAU

ABOUT

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan, was founded in December 2006. curated by Yasuhiko Fukuzono aka aus.

2006年末に設立された東京のレコード・レーベル。

 

CONTACT

General Information: flau at flau.jp
Press: press at flau.jp
Booking (for FLAU artists only): booking at flau.jp
Music Promos (for Radio): promos at flau.jp

 

NEWSLETTER

ENGLISH
JAPANESE (日本語)

 

DEMO POLICY

We are only accepting demos in digital form. Please email demos at flau.jp with links to audio files (but NO email attachments), SoundCloud, and Dropbox etc.
We are not releasing Japan only edition or CD only edition. Please do not send us demos that already have a record contract.

 

PRESS

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

 

FLAU NIGHT

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

SCHEDULE

marucoporoporo

10/10（木）名古屋・live & lounge vio w/ Suso Saiz, The Pyramid & more

aus

10/20（日）東京・Wall & Wall w/Efterklang
10/27（日）東京・UNIT DOME FESTIVAL
11/4（月・祝）渋川・原美術館ARC

Kazumichi Komatsu

10/19-20（土・日）相模原DAICHI silent river： By This River

ARTISTS

SEE FULL LIST

©FLAU

Melaine Dalibert

Melaine Dalibertは現代音楽の作曲家として、オリジナルのピアノ作品の他、ジェラール・ペッソン、ジュリアーノ・ダンジョリーニ、トム・ジョンソン、ピーター・ガーランドなど多くの作品の斬新な解釈で、注目を集めるフランスの作曲家／ピアニスト。レンヌでピアニストとしての教育を受けた後、パリ音楽院で現代作曲家の作品のレパートリーを多く学ぶ。幼い頃から実験音楽にも親しみ、数学的な概念を通して作曲する方法を見出したという。

ハンガリー生まれのフランス人メディア・アーティスト Véra Molnarの作品に影響を受け、モートン・フェルドマンを思わせる引き伸ばされた時間の概念を含む独自のアルゴリズムによる作曲方法を開発し、フラクタル・シリーズという独自の概念を取り入れたミニマルで内向的な作品を発表している。彼のピアノ曲はこれまでに7枚のCDに収録されている：2015年に自主制作された「Quatre pièces pour piano」、2017年にAnother Timbreから発売された「Ressac」。2018年からはErstwhile RecordsやGravity Waveを運営するYuko Zama主宰のelsewhereから立て続けに４作品をリリースし、その全てのアートワークをデヴィッド・シルヴィアンが手がけ、「Night Blossoms」ではサウンド面でも協働を果たしている。
最新作はIci d’Ailleurs からリリースされた「Shimmering」。

その他、FLAUからリリースされたSylvain Chauveau「Life Without Machines」やEnsemble 0、ギリシャ人作曲家Anastassis Philippakopoulosなどのアルバムにもピアニストとして参加。フランス国内外の多くのフェスティバル、美術館、現代アートセンターでの演奏も活発に行っている。

Born in 1979, Melaine Dalibert is a French composer and pianist who is becoming as recognised for his compositional piano works as he is for his wonderful interpretations of works by Gérard Pesson, Giuliano D’Angiolini, Tom Johnson, Peter Garland and many others. Dalibert studied at the Paris Conservatories and was classically trained in Rennes, where he now teaches.

Breaking away from the technical prowess favoured by the conservatories, Dalibert forged a path of his own by composing music using algorithmic processes and mathematical concepts. Though this sounds like work fit for a computer processor, Dalibert’s music is all composed by hand.

Equally fascinating for Dalibert is the natural world and its phenomena, both expected and unpredictable. In this regard the composer’s influences include the work of Hungarian-born French media artist Véra Molnar and composer Morton Feldman.

First self-releasing his 2015 Quatre pièces pour piano, Dalibert has seven recordings to his name — released on labels such as elsewhere, Another Timbre and Ici d’Ailleurs — with Magic Square being his eighth release. His music has been played on BBC Radio, Radio France and NTS among others.

DISCOGRAPHY

ALBUM/SINGLE

Ressac (another timbre, 2017)
Musique Pour Le Lever Du Jour ‎(elsewhere, 2018)
Cheminant (elsewhere, 2019)
Infinite Ascent ‎(elsewhere, 2020)
Maelström (elsewhere, 2020)
Night Blossoms ‎(elsewhere, 2021)
Shimmering (ici d’ailleurs, 2021)
Épilogue (flau, 2022)

COLLABORATION

for Anastassis Philippakopoulos
Piano Works (elsewhere, 2019)

for Sylvain Chauveau
Life Without Machines (flau, 2020)

PRESS QUOTES

Melaine Dalibert, himself a composer whose works similarly deal in patience and space, is an ideal interpreter of such beguilingly modest music, and this sensitive recording lets every detail resound – The New Yorker

compositions by French pianist Melaine Dalibert, is a warm stream of harmonious ripples that echoes the graceful postclassical music of Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson, etc, but the economy and precision, combined with Dalibert’s calm hands on the keys, put it on a whole other level of beauty – Derek Walmsley, WIRE

As with his other releases, Dalibert breaks boundaries difficult to define but easy to hear, rendering and dissolving their polarities with a new iteration of his already luminous language – Dusted Magazine

Once again Night Blossoms highlights why Dalibert is one of the most effortlessly talented and subtlety creative pianists at work today – Musique Machine

Au-delà des genres et au dessus de ce monde, le pianiste français Melaine Dalibert continue d’échafauder une œuvre d’un autre temps, d’un futur à construire avec une musique qui doit autant à Federico Mompou qu’à l’Acousmatique. Night Blossoms, son dernier disque en date (avec la participation de David Sylvian sur deux titres) est une pure merveille! – Benzine Mag

La musique de Melaine Dalibert, héritière de cinquante ans d’expériences minimalistes, correspond à l’impérieux besoin du public d’aujourd’hui de cultiver un hors-temps et de se plonger au cœur du son. Elle y répond parfaitement. – Res Musica

Comment des pièces reposant sur des constructions aussi abstraites et rigoureuses peuvent-elles susciter autant d’émotion à l’écoute ? La musique de Melaine Dalibert projette l’auditeur dans un univers où l’assommant temps quotidien n’a plus cours. Plus de mesure, plus de début ni de fin : pour qui accepte de se laisser prendre, Night Blossoms fait perdre tous les repères du commensurable – Hémisphère Son

PRESS QUOTES

Melaine Dalibert, himself a composer whose works similarly deal in patience and space, is an ideal interpreter of such beguilingly modest music, and this sensitive recording lets every detail resound – The New Yorker

compositions by French pianist Melaine Dalibert, is a warm stream of harmonious ripples that echoes the graceful postclassical music of Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, Jóhann Jóhannsson, etc, but the economy and precision, combined with Dalibert’s calm hands on the keys, put it on a whole other level of beauty – Derek Walmsley, WIRE

As with his other releases, Dalibert breaks boundaries difficult to define but easy to hear, rendering and dissolving their polarities with a new iteration of his already luminous language – Dusted Magazine

Once again Night Blossoms highlights why Dalibert is one of the most effortlessly talented and subtlety creative pianists at work today – Musique Machine

Au-delà des genres et au dessus de ce monde, le pianiste français Melaine Dalibert continue d’échafauder une œuvre d’un autre temps, d’un futur à construire avec une musique qui doit autant à Federico Mompou qu’à l’Acousmatique. Night Blossoms, son dernier disque en date (avec la participation de David Sylvian sur deux titres) est une pure merveille! – Benzine Mag

La musique de Melaine Dalibert, héritière de cinquante ans d’expériences minimalistes, correspond à l’impérieux besoin du public d’aujourd’hui de cultiver un hors-temps et de se plonger au cœur du son. Elle y répond parfaitement. – Res Musica

Comment des pièces reposant sur des constructions aussi abstraites et rigoureuses peuvent-elles susciter autant d’émotion à l’écoute ? La musique de Melaine Dalibert projette l’auditeur dans un univers où l’assommant temps quotidien n’a plus cours. Plus de mesure, plus de début ni de fin : pour qui accepte de se laisser prendre, Night Blossoms fait perdre tous les repères du commensurable – Hémisphère Son

Melaine Dalibert

FRANCE

Melaine Dalibertは現代音楽の作曲家として、オリジナルのピアノ作品の他、ジェラール・ペッソン、ジュリアーノ・ダンジョリーニ、トム・ジョンソン、ピーター・ガーランドなど多くの作品の斬新な解釈で、注目を集めるフランスの作曲家／ピアニスト。レンヌでピアニストとしての教育を受けた後、パリ音楽院で現代作曲家の作品のレパートリーを多く学ぶ。幼い頃から実験音楽にも親しみ、数学的な概念を通して作曲する方法を見出したという。

ハンガリー生まれのフランス人メディア・アーティスト Véra Molnarの作品に影響を受け、モートン・フェルドマンを思わせる引き伸ばされた時間の概念を含む独自のアルゴリズムによる作曲方法を開発し、フラクタル・シリーズという独自の概念を取り入れたミニマルで内向的な作品を発表している。彼のピアノ曲はこれまでに7枚のCDに収録されている：2015年に自主制作された「Quatre pièces pour piano」、2017年にAnother Timbreから発売された「Ressac」。2018年からはErstwhile RecordsやGravity Waveを運営するYuko Zama主宰のelsewhereから立て続けに４作品をリリースし、その全てのアートワークをデヴィッド・シルヴィアンが手がけ、「Night Blossoms」ではサウンド面でも協働を果たしている。
最新作はIci d’Ailleurs からリリースされた「Shimmering」。

その他、FLAUからリリースされたSylvain Chauveau「Life Without Machines」やEnsemble 0、ギリシャ人作曲家Anastassis Philippakopoulosなどのアルバムにもピアニストとして参加。フランス国内外の多くのフェスティバル、美術館、現代アートセンターでの演奏も活発に行っている。

Born in 1979, Melaine Dalibert is a French composer and pianist who is becoming as recognised for his compositional piano works as he is for his wonderful interpretations of works by Gérard Pesson, Giuliano D’Angiolini, Tom Johnson, Peter Garland and many others. Dalibert studied at the Paris Conservatories and was classically trained in Rennes, where he now teaches.

Breaking away from the technical prowess favoured by the conservatories, Dalibert forged a path of his own by composing music using algorithmic processes and mathematical concepts. Though this sounds like work fit for a computer processor, Dalibert’s music is all composed by hand.

Equally fascinating for Dalibert is the natural world and its phenomena, both expected and unpredictable. In this regard the composer’s influences include the work of Hungarian-born French media artist Véra Molnar and composer Morton Feldman.

First self-releasing his 2015 Quatre pièces pour piano, Dalibert has seven recordings to his name — released on labels such as elsewhere, Another Timbre and Ici d’Ailleurs — with Magic Square being his eighth release. His music has been played on BBC Radio, Radio France and NTS among others.

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