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. FLAU100/LO224
Release Date: April 26th, 2023
Format: LP/CD/DIGITAL
ausが15年ぶりとなるニューアルバムをイギリスの老舗レコードレーベルLo Recordingsより発表します。「Everis」は、ストリングス、ピアノ、クラリネット、フルート、ドラムなど様々な楽器と声、エレクトロニクスを組み合わせ、モダン・クラシカル、インディー、ジャズ、アバンギャルド、フォークといった異質なジャンルから抜き出したアイデアを包含した美しいサウンドスケープ作品。 日常生活の振動が、親密なフィールドレコーディング、映画のようなストリングス、穏やかさと鋭さとの間を揺れ動く多彩なエレクトロニカと絡み合い、aus史上最もエモーショナルなアルバムに仕上がりました。
2017年に起こった空き巣事件によって、楽曲データを盗難された後、ausは PC上のディテールを追求するのではなく、心の奥底に潜む個人的なストーリーから何かを作り出そうと決心した、といいます。携帯電話に記録されていたビデオやフィールド・レコーディングと組み合わせ、つながりの消えてしまった記憶の間に音楽のシナプスを作り出すことに取り掛かったのです。アルバムには自身が主宰するレーベルFLAUのHenning Schmiedtや高原久実、Noah、Danny Norbury、Emma Gatrillに加え、親交深い日本人アーティストGutevolkと横手ありさ、ECMからもリリースするハルダンゲル・フィドル奏者Benedicte Maurseth、英国の即興音楽家Patrick Farmer、 オーストリアの音響作家Glim、メルボルンのシンガーソングライターGrand Salvoら多彩なゲストが参加。 ミニマリズムの反転と絵描き歌のようなレイヤリングというアイデアによって、パレットの中で混ぜ合わせられた大量の音の破片〜駅の改札、商店街、空港の滑走路、校舎から聴こえる吹奏楽、旅先で出会った民謡など〜、個人的な記憶に関連する日常の断片が古いアナログ機材を通して有機的にコラージュされ、全編アトモスフェリックな美しさを讃えています。
Encompassing ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk; ‘Everis’ is the new album by Tokyo-born composer and producer aus.
Performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics, vibrations of everyday life are intertwined in the music with intimate field recordings, filmic strings and electronica running the gamut from gentle to muscular. The result is a cocktail of sound that illustrates lost memories, unforgotten events and footage from mental archives interpreted through audio. It’s a glittering whirlwind of late-night jazz; etchings of love songs; and dedications to life, organically interlaced with the deft use of vintage equipment, slow-dripped through a filter of cosmopolitanism sensibilities.
Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with only some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.
Fukuzono states: “In doing so, I wanted to show that lost memories exist everywhere, without themselves, and are connected to the present. Like a Ekaki Uta [a Japanese drawing song] I wanted to convey the image of a circle in which all memories overlap.”
In playing with the idea of inverting minimalism and the Ekaki Uta aesthetic of layering and superimposing individual parts, a palette of samples are merged and manipulated into a state of almost nonrecognition, including train station ticket gates; computer keyboards; airport runways; a brass band practising in a schoolyard; and many other fragments of everyday life that are closely associated with his personal memories.
2 Landia
5 Make Me Me
6 Flo
9 Further
the whole album is just something gorgeous to drift away from everyday life with. – Elizabeth Alker, BBC3
a triumph of instinctive creativity – Electronic Sound Magazine
serene and subtle…intricate and immaculate – Backseat Mafia
The album is akin to an aural photo book. As the strings soar to the album’s highest moment, one feels that the harmful parts of the past have been laid to rest, while the treasured memories have been brought to the light. – A Closer Listen
The mood throughout the album, unusually for modern electronica, is marvelously upbeat. There are no moments of introspection. Everything emits light and love. ‘Everis’ is an amazing achievement. – Ban Ban Ton Ton
ambient classical swirlings of melodies stolen by thieves – Higher Plain Music
The Japanese artist nests the resulting sound fragments in an aesthetic form of art, enriches them with facets from various musical genres or structuring synth passages…definitely pursues a visionary approach with his music, this aspect can be found very clearly on “Everis” – Gezeitenstrom
An organic world, where the ingredients are so intertwined with each other that they lose their origins… – The New Noise
playful, open-minded approach into cinematic ambient work – Bandcamp (new & notable)
aus and the trance like, emotional translucence – American Pancake
warped vocals sitting amongst a landscape of thumping kicks and sparsely laid noise and field recordings…beautifully crafted – ADSR Collective
full of textures and expressive sounds that manage to produce emotions in their wake – R Más
a swirling memory chamber of highly textual and neoclassical instrumentation – Tome To The Weather Machine
Fukuzono’s impeccable musicianship is evident throughout…What a return this is! – Utility Fog (FBi Radio)
aus has been on repeat since first crossing my path. – Alex Kruder, KEXP
a magical, playful, shouldn’t work but somehow smashes it, fusion of neoclassical, oddball electronics, elegant orchestration, cinematic schmaltz, fragile folk pop vocals & arrangement ambition with a steady stream of WTF moments. – Slow Music Movement
Each track is skillfully infused with its own distinctive electronic touch…It is an album that rewards multiple listens, allowing the listener to explore each track and discover the hidden depths – Twisted Soul
quite experimental, mixing elements of jazz, vocalization and drone to create an enchanting sound – Green Banana
… a genre-bending symphony – Tonspion
enchanting, mysterious, but also fresh – Da Music
techno timbres twist about broken, booming beats, and children’s chants, like some traditional, celebratory, ceremony transported to the future. – BBTT
something richer and more elaborate, both in its components (recurring presence of a grainy sound carpet, use of various instruments) and in its technical development (the tracks follow one another, forming a sort of musical continuum) – EtherREAL
美しくて、魅惑的で、しかし不可思議で多様な「音楽」の結晶体 (E王!) – Ele-king
時間という不可解な概念を取り巻く抽象的なエレクトロニカ – Music Tribune
Trevor Jackson played ‘past from’ (from the album Everis) on his NTS Radio show
CAT No. FLAU100/LO224
Release Date: April 26th, 2023
Format: LP/CD/DIGITAL
2 Landia
5 Make Me Me
6 Flo
9 Further
ausが15年ぶりとなるニューアルバムをイギリスの老舗レコードレーベルLo Recordingsより発表します。「Everis」は、ストリングス、ピアノ、クラリネット、フルート、ドラムなど様々な楽器と声、エレクトロニクスを組み合わせ、モダン・クラシカル、インディー、ジャズ、アバンギャルド、フォークといった異質なジャンルから抜き出したアイデアを包含した美しいサウンドスケープ作品。 日常生活の振動が、親密なフィールドレコーディング、映画のようなストリングス、穏やかさと鋭さとの間を揺れ動く多彩なエレクトロニカと絡み合い、aus史上最もエモーショナルなアルバムに仕上がりました。
2017年に起こった空き巣事件によって、楽曲データを盗難された後、ausは PC上のディテールを追求するのではなく、心の奥底に潜む個人的なストーリーから何かを作り出そうと決心した、といいます。携帯電話に記録されていたビデオやフィールド・レコーディングと組み合わせ、つながりの消えてしまった記憶の間に音楽のシナプスを作り出すことに取り掛かったのです。アルバムには自身が主宰するレーベルFLAUのHenning Schmiedtや高原久実、Noah、Danny Norbury、Emma Gatrillに加え、親交深い日本人アーティストGutevolkと横手ありさ、ECMからもリリースするハルダンゲル・フィドル奏者Benedicte Maurseth、英国の即興音楽家Patrick Farmer、 オーストリアの音響作家Glim、メルボルンのシンガーソングライターGrand Salvoら多彩なゲストが参加。 ミニマリズムの反転と絵描き歌のようなレイヤリングというアイデアによって、パレットの中で混ぜ合わせられた大量の音の破片〜駅の改札、商店街、空港の滑走路、校舎から聴こえる吹奏楽、旅先で出会った民謡など〜、個人的な記憶に関連する日常の断片が古いアナログ機材を通して有機的にコラージュされ、全編アトモスフェリックな美しさを讃えています。
Encompassing ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk; ‘Everis’ is the new album by Tokyo-born composer and producer aus.
Performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics, vibrations of everyday life are intertwined in the music with intimate field recordings, filmic strings and electronica running the gamut from gentle to muscular. The result is a cocktail of sound that illustrates lost memories, unforgotten events and footage from mental archives interpreted through audio. It’s a glittering whirlwind of late-night jazz; etchings of love songs; and dedications to life, organically interlaced with the deft use of vintage equipment, slow-dripped through a filter of cosmopolitanism sensibilities.
Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with only some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.
Fukuzono states: “In doing so, I wanted to show that lost memories exist everywhere, without themselves, and are connected to the present. Like a Ekaki Uta [a Japanese drawing song] I wanted to convey the image of a circle in which all memories overlap.”
In playing with the idea of inverting minimalism and the Ekaki Uta aesthetic of layering and superimposing individual parts, a palette of samples are merged and manipulated into a state of almost nonrecognition, including train station ticket gates; computer keyboards; airport runways; a brass band practising in a schoolyard; and many other fragments of everyday life that are closely associated with his personal memories.
