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Recommended by us on 10th November 2011
...according to our Phil on Thu 10 Nov, 2011.
Floex is Thomas Dvorak who did that ace Machinarium album that came in a while back (soundtrack to the video game if you're interested). Here Thomas plays a variety of instruments including clarinet, piano, clarinet without mouthpiece, tenor saxophone, metalophones, bowed metalophone, shakuhachi, samplers and synths. That's a lot of instruments! There's also a ton of other guests on the album who help out playing even more instruments! The opener is a nice crunchy melodic tune with lots of piano and layers going on. Busy! The album veers from strange crunchy electronics, to layered ambient soundscapes, to neoclassical numbers, to odd Philip Glass-esque style tunes with souly female vocals, to more jazz laden instrumentals. It's all over the shop but what it is is a thoroughly fascinating modern electronica album with a beating heart of classic instrumentation. There's not a bad track on it and there's more ideas on single tracks here than most albums have from start to end. Excellent work!
Credits:
Tomas Dvorak - clarinet, piano, clarinet without mouthpiece, tenor saxophone,
metalophones, bowed metalophone, shakuhachi, samplers & synths
Guests:
Marinella Mastrosimone - vocals (9)
James Rone - vocals (4)
Tomas Jamnik - violoncello (3,6)
Oskar Torok - trumpet (2)
Ridina Ahmed - vocal improvisations (1,5)
Petr Tichy - double bass (10)
Anya Stuart - lyrics (4)
Musetta - lyrics (9)
Recorded at Mush Room (Prague, Budapest) except vocals for "Nel Blu" (Musetta Studio, Milan), and vocals for "Precious Creature" (James' place, Minneapolis).
Mixed and mastered by Matous Godik at Zka4t Studio.
Illustrations by Veronika Vlkova. Graphic design by Jirka Libansky.
Master cut by Hendrik Pauler at Pauler's Acoustics in Northeim, Germany.
Vinyl album is pressed on high quality vinyl at Pallas Group GmbH, Diepholz, Germany.
Vinyl edition is of 300 copies on clear vinyl.
1. Ursa Major (4:55)
2. Casanova (5:56)
3. Blow Up (3:02)
4. Precious Creature feat. James Rone (5:26)
5. Forget-me-not (7:00)
6. Veronika's Dream (5:15)
7. Perlin Noise (1:17)
8. Petr Parler(5:38)
9. Nel Blu feat. Musetta (5:20)
10. Mecholup (5:19)
11. Zorya Polunochnaya (3:11)
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