Ambient flowers with post-rock bee buzz: Monochromie

Posted on May 24, 2013 by fluttery

Monochromie is back with “Enlighten Yourself While You Sleep”, a new 9-track album in the ambient / electronica / post-rock genre and the new album will surprise many listeners.

After his quiet and peaceful debut album “Angels and Demons”, the new album shines bright. As the album cover suggests, sounds emerge from an electric heaven or flash through stormy skies. The post-rock tone is accentuated with the addition of ethereal melodies played on guitars, while loud and saturated noises that transports the listener into an increasingly wild, intense and deep elsewhere.

Listen: “Day and Night Of a Scarecrow” Buy

Before a deep look into the new album, let’s talk about his debut album. “Angels and Demons” was a good start on his musical career. Album welcomed by followers of the label and received very nice reviews.

Thinkmuzik said “His music shows a unique perspective on the post-rock genre, presenting numerous attitudes and textures through the musical landscape. This variety is what makes Monochromie one of the best post-rock artists.” while Beach Sloth has called the album ” A constant struggle between the classical and electronic elements. ” “This pits the organic against the digital. Listening to the struggle between the two separate elements makes it infinitely interesting. Hope neither side ever wins.” Here are more;

Soundcolourvibration: “What makes Angels and Demons a really different album than anything else coming out right now is the consistency of different worlds sitting boldly and perfectly together and exactly how they relate to one another. (…) I have really been enjoying a lot of ambient music coming out this year and Angels and Demons from Monochromie is a new direction in this field of music.”

A Closer Listen: “It doesn’t happen often that we hear an album we have a hard time categorizing, but that is what happened when listening to the debut album of Wilson Trouve aka Monochromie.(…) What it does best however is point out what Monochromie excels at: making music that is full of hope and fear, vivid colors and darkness, feels like a dream, but has the mundanity of life.”

Post-rock.be: “Ambient/post-rock infused with beautiful and sublime soundscapes”

MRU: “For his foray into the musical world, Monochromie’s efforts are mature and strong. Angels and Demons brings the listener on a pleasant and varied ride, communicating its theme confidently and without words. The sounds speak for themselves, simultaneously capturing the ears and emotions of listeners, and not letting go.”

W. Henry Prince: “In one of my circles of hell, Bono emotes politically over stadium rock chords to a 4/4 drum beat. In my version of heaven, Monochromie is playing.”

Caleidoscoop: “Depth, emotion splendor so beautiful and knows how to shine in Autumn.”

As reviews suggest, Wilson Trouvé’s Monochromie travels through the borders of ambient, noise and post-rock, these surfaces and textures slowly evolve towards an elsewhere, producing the resonance of a particular atmosphere: a dark or luminous landscape, aerial or earthly, a hot or cold light. Each song’s color is unique and draw bridges between classical and contemporary, minimalism and baroque, using a piano, a metallophone, and some other acoustic instruments mixed with crystalline sounds, sparkling , squeaky or saturated.

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This second album includes tracks composed, recorded and mixed by Wilson Trouvé between September 2012 and February 2013, in the artist’s studio in Marseille, and mastered by Gérald Kuentz at KO Studio in Marseille.

Wilson says “This new album is the result of days and nights of hard work and a slow and intense immersion into the depths of my soul, and into its relations to our dramatic, poetic and beautiful reality. What you hear is what you see.”

Fluttery Records is very happy to release the second album of this gifted artist and we believe that the people who enjoyed his debut album will also enjoy this album and find new musical tastes with the new songs like Fireworks, Day and night of a scarecrow, Silence is Anger. Also we strongly recommend this album to fans of Sigur Ros, Pan American, Hammock, Eluvium, Explosion in the Sky, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, Erik Satie, Port-Royal, Max Richter, Library Tapes and anyone who enjoys post-rock, ambient and electronica.

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Made of various LA bands, Arms Of Tripoli release their debut EP

Posted on October 19, 2012 by fluttery

Arms of Tripoli is an instrumental band (genre: post-rock /math rock) from Los Angeles consisting of members from various LA based bands, including Signal Hill, The Lights From Here, The Half Mantis Group, and Naked in the Dark. The band was forged under the premise that the most prolific and profound music is created when a strong spirit of collaboration is present.

Thus, the band features an ever revolving line up of musicians and artists that accompany its primary members in all aspects of artistic development. It is at its core a creative outlet for everyone, exposing a new and unarchived musical experience for everyone to enjoy. The group, as it stands, officially began in July 2011.

“All the Fallen Embers” is the debut EP of Arms of Tripoli. The album perfectly showcases the band’s overall playing style, composed of multiple influences, yet remaining true to old roots that generated an interest for playing post-rock music overall. Each track not only introduces the personal influence of each featured member, but also culminates an experience that the band wishes to share with each listener, no matter where that person is in the world.

To say “no track is the same” would be an understatement, as this EP blends the sourced sound through various layers, ultimately creating a new version set apart from the intent stemming from the original demos. This was achieved, in part, through the collaboration with other LA based musicians who lent their skill and distinct sounds to these songs. In addition to each member reigning from a previously established Los Angeles, post rock and instrumental outfits, this debut album is literally an all star institute not to be passed up.

The EP is recommended if you like the bands / artists like Tortoise, The Mercury Program, Do Make Say Think, Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You, Mogwai, Paul Newman, A Minor Forest, Dianogah, The Dylan Group, Pullman, Lumen, Ratatat, Trans Am, Ui.

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Monochromie Release The Debut Album : Angels and Demons

Posted on September 4, 2012 by fluttery

Monochromie’s debut album, Angels and Demons blends ambient, modern classical, post-rock and it is a constant round trip between a soothing breath and a sleepless noisy storm.

Monochromie is the musical project of Wilson Trouvé. Through the borders of ambient, noise and post-rock, these surfaces and textures slowly evolve towards an elsewhere, producing the resonance of a particular atmosphere: a dark or luminous landscape, aerial or earthly, a hot or cold light. Each song’s color is unique and draw bridges between classical and contemporary minimalism and baroque, using a piano, a metallophone, and some other acoustic instruments mixed with crystalline sounds, sparkling , squeaky or saturated.

Sigur Ros, Pan American, Explosion in the Sky, Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt Zion, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto or Frederic Chopin, Erik Satie and the sonatas or impromptus of Franz Schubert are among the many influences of the artist.

“Angels and Demons” is Monochromie’s debut album. Built from piano melodies, tinged with synthetic textures and industrial sounds, his music shines and darkens into one single movement. Along with 13 songs on the album, we travel between heaven and earth, light and gravity, among angels and demons which inhabit our worlds and Monochromie’s music.

In a constant round trip between a soothing breath and a noisy storm, Monochromie’s music plays with our deep emotions and produces the new colors in the palette already rich and contrasted of Fluttery Records artists.

The label founder Taner Torun says “Sometimes I work a lot and being sleepless is one of motivations in the life. I like making sleepless hours more disturbing with listening music which travels between peace and destruction. I mean the glitchy, little noisy patterns with joyful ambient which may have melodic structures. The Belong debut October Language was my favourite album for those moments. Since the day Wilson handed debut Monochromie, Angels and Demons, it became the new golden treasure of sleeplessness. That’s why I love the third track of the album, Erosion. It’s a sleepless song.”

Wilson Trouvé, the man behind Monochromie is also a talented modern artist who have made solo and group exhibitions and his works are featured in many art fairs and festivals. His biography can be found here. Trouvé lives in Marseille, France.

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Vancouver’s Post-Metal Band, Seven Nines and Tens Release Their Debut Album, “Habitat 67” on Fluttery Records

Posted on April 27, 2012 by fluttery

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada’s trio Seven Nines and Tens‘ debut album “Habitat 67” alerts the listener by way of sound that the time is upon them to leave their mortal body for 45 minutes of calculated guitar driven space aged motifs and thoroughly enveloping tides of melodic grandiosity.

It wasn’t long after songwriter / guitarist David Cotton transplanted himself to western Canada from his home in Ontario, that he began writing music that would become Seven Nines and Tens songs. Cotton didn’t have a definite vision for the actual music he was writing in 2006 but after playing in a small handful of on the verge acts in his native province that disbanded prematurely, he had a rough idea of how much work creative realization was going to demand. Although Cotton hadn’t yet fully committed to an exact audio aesthetic for the music he was feverishly writing, in the back of his mind there were no question that 4 friends from Methuen Mass., a once dreadlocked Oxford native with a tendency to write about fast cars, and a prolific tastemaker who enjoys referencing deities in his band names were going to be often referenced in his songwriting.

He spent the next two years writing and recording as much music as he could. In 2008, after auditioning many potential members to try and flesh out a live band, Cotton met drummer Earl Heath. It quickly became apparent that there was undeniable musical chemistry between the two, with Heath’s technical and fluid playing complimenting Cotton’s songs. The pair spent countless hours assembling and re assembling their music with Heath not only creating exceptional and calculated drum parts but also writing dense and shape shifting arrangements on 6 string fretted and 6 fretless bass’s.

The pair performed extensively for the next year and a half and were told a couple of times that they had to meet a local drummer and were introduced to Riley Roukema on St.Patricks day 2010. Roukema joined the line up as drummer with Heath shifting to Bass for a majority of Their songs. A couple of months and an amateur rehearsal video of their music on Youtube later, Top 5 Metal site Metalunderground.com advised that “Seven Nines and Tens is one of the most underrated progressive/experimental acts in the city and is still looking for it’s big break. With a strong live performance and exceptional song writing ability, it is without doubt that Seven Nines and Tens will become one of Vancouver’s top experimental acts.”

In February 2011 the band recorded their debut album “Habitat 67” with engineer Hayz Fisher at the Factory studios. The reception to the record has been exceptional with Discorder.ca saying “The amount of innovation and talent that this trio brings to their compositions is simply staggering. Habitat 67 is eclectic, challenging, and at times strikingly beautiful. With this latest effort, Seven Nines and Tens prove without a doubt, that they are a force to be reckoned with, in this, or any other galaxy.”

Seven Nines and Tens‘ music offers multiple approaches for the listener to enjoy. The band, not content on drawing influence from one or even a few genres, explores the obvious hallmarks of Post Rock, Post Metal, Shoegaze and Indie Rock, but also dabbles in the sounds of Math Rock, Sludge rock, Doom Rock, Hardcore, Pop Punk, Jazz, Classical, and Black Metal.

Recommended if you like Mogwai, Red Sparowes, Isis, Jesu, Alchest, Rosetta, Russian Circles, Kayo Dot, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Nadja, Pelican, Explosions In The Sky, Hammock, Saxon Shore, This Will Destroy You, World’s End Girlfriend, Port-Royal, God Is an Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

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Japanese Post-rock Band Gargle Release Their Album: “Glow In The Gloom”

Posted on April 10, 2012 by fluttery

“Glow in the Gloom” is the production of talented Japanese duo Gargle. They offer instrumental music combining mixed emotions as if which is trying to express a gleam of light in the darkness.

Gargle create cinematic music using huge range of dynamics based on the sounds of guitar, accordion and piano mixed with the layers of ambient sounds. Their music is commonly categorized as ambient, post-rock, experimental and modern classical music, however, as the lines between each genre have been becoming blurred nowadays, their music is differing from typical music of each category.

The sounds are sometimes cinematic and dynamic, and the sensitive and pathetic melodies are running through the sounds as if looking for literally a glow in the gloom. The sentiments of the songs are enhanced by the emotional sounds of strings coming in the middle of the songs.

The opening track “Presage” is a fine example; It’s not just post-rock or ambient. It’s not a classical music composition. It might be not correct to see it as a mixture of all three. The track has its own structure and its own beauty. While the album contains diverse aspects of sound, it has a consistent uniformity that will appeal to people’s emotions.

Gargle are Jun Minowa and Satoshi Ikeda. All you hear is performed by Gargle and Kei Sunayama on contrabass and Yoko Ikeda on violins. The label owner of Fluttery Records, Taner Torun tells that the number of people involved in the recording process is small but what Gargle achieves in this album is very remarkable. After the recording sessions, the album is mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama.

The album is highly recommended if you like Eluvium, Mono, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros,World’s End Girlfriend, Our Sleepless Forest, Bosques de mi Mente, Yndi Halda, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mum, Rachel’s, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai, Brian Eno, Grouper.

Besides releasing an EP through a net label in 2009, Gargle took part in two collaboration albums of Draff Krimmy from Norway and Void’s Anatomy from Canada. Gargle has played shows around in Tokyo, and also went on a short tour in Europe in the autumn of 2011. They intend to keep playing shows to interact and share time and space with people everywhere. The guitarist Jun is also doing his solo project under the name of Yawning and has released an EP on Fluttery Records.

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Shy, Low; the post-rock band from Richmond, USA releases their debut album

Posted on March 3, 2012 by fluttery

Post rock band from Richmond Shy Low

Fluttery Records has started 2012 with acoustic recordings of the band Mooncake. The label with many artists around the world has now released Shy, Low‘s self-titled debut album. The six track album can be streamed free on the label’s website like all the releases by the label.

Post-rockers hailing from the hardcore haven of Richmond VA, Shy, Low incorporates the heavy influence of their hometown roots with an ambient expanse of melody and tremolo. After playing together in other bands on and off for five or so years, they came together in early 2010 to create what the listener hears today. Fond of the road, Shy, Low performs wherever and whenever they can, be it a basement, record shop, or concert venue. The true passion to create pushes Shy, Low to new heights with the dawn of every new day.

Shy, Low’s debut self-titled full length creates a particular atmosphere; a feeling you can’t seem to shake even hours after the album has ended. Like a collective of divine watchmakers, Shy, Low has created a dynamic universe of deep swells, dark, cathartic crescendos, and powerful emotional releases, and all the while completely lacking lyrics, inviting the listener to define and explore this universe for themselves.

Richmond, Virginia’s Shy, Low has been together just over a year and have no plans to stop. Although the art and music scenes of their hometown have been somewhat diminished by city ordinances, Shy, Low continues to play whenever they can and with two tours out of the way, they seem to show no fear of crossing borders to reach new audiences. The road is a second home to Shy, Low and whenever the opportunity arises, they’re traveling.

Shy, Low does not crave fame or fortune. Their love for music and comradery drives them to create something new and unique. As long as those things exist in unison, they will continue on the path the music paves. The latest release embodies the values and experiences of Shy, Low whilst allowing the listener to create their own meaning.

The album highly recommended to post-rock lovers who also likes Mogwai, Sigur Rós, Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emeror, 65DaysOfStatic, Mono, Maybe She Will, This Will Destroy You and Caspian.

Fluttery Records is a record label focusing on Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental, Electronic, Modern Classical music. All label releases can be streamed free on the label website.

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Mooncake, The Post-rock Band, Release Their Acoustic DVD & Album

Posted on February 27, 2012 by fluttery

Post-rock band Mooncake

Post-rock, ambient and crossover indie music label Fluttery Records has just released Mooncake’s Acoustic DVD and the album. Lovers of Mooncake and instrumental post-rock music can listen free or buy this release on the label page.

Mooncake is a Russian post-rock band founded in Moscow early 2006. Since then Mooncake has been permanently performing at top Moscow clubs and festivals, toured Russia, Ukraine, Baltic countries and shared stage with such bands as God is an Astronaut, Explosions in the Sky, Caspian, Russian Circles and finally became number one of Russian instrumental and post-rock music scene.

In five years time the band released three EPs and one full length album, which were warmly welcomed both by listeners and critics all over the world.

The newest Acoustic CD and DVD is a live Mooncake’s show performed on Rain TV. The video contains five tracks in pretty new acoustic arrangements. The release will be available through Fluttery Records not only in DVD format, but in CD Audio and digital as well.

Mooncake is sometimes compared to Pink Floyd or Mogwai but the band has made a name for itself having developed its own style and became quiet popular among connoisseurs of genre both home and abroad. Catchy melodies, atmosphere, the ideal balance between rapture and grief: all this has always been Mooncake‘s distinctive feature.

Today Mooncake is working on its second LP that is planned to be released in 2012. The DVD, CD and the digital versions of the releases are also available on various stores like iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp. Also the label offers various options to buy or download these releases.

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Sleepstream releases their debut “A Waltz with the Seventh Crane”

Posted on February 22, 2012 by fluttery

Sleepstream plays post-rock music with deeply emotional parts, punchy rhythms, blasting crescendos, swinging violins

Post-rock band from Greece Fluttery Records releases Sleepstream‘s debut album “A Waltz with the Seventh Crane”. Powering from their post-rock, experimental, ambient and progressive influences, the band comes to testify there is more happening in Greece than a crisis.

Post-rock listeners can listen this album free or buy from their album page on Fluttery Records.

“Letting go with a mind wide open for forty-five minutes, A Waltz with the Seventh Crane will reward you genuinely.” says the Stelios from the band. Beautiful guitar and violin layering will take you on a trip from the subtle intro to “Butterflies” to the overwhelming “Light”. Calm but violent, bitter but optimistic, this album doesn’t leave you indifferent to their present or future endeavours as well.

A Waltz With The Seventh Crane
The album is highly recommended for listeners of Crippled Black Phoenix, Mogwai, Red Sparowes, Isis, Jesu, Alchest, Rosetta, Russian Circles, Kayo Dot, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Nadja, Pelican, Explosions In The Sky, Hammock, Saxon Shore, This Will Destroy You, World’s End Girlfriend, Port-Royal, God Is an Astronaut, Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Sleepstream’s music has a purpose of its own. Every single synthesis is a small story evolving and ending, giving birth to a next one in order to gradually reach their ultimate goal. Deeply emotional parts, punchy rhythms, blasting crescendos, all add up to an exciting, right out of the soul music, that wants to share with the listener the band’s emotional travels and search for the final purpose, ascension.

The album is available on Fluttery Records, a “New home of Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental, Electronic, Modern Classical music”. Sleepstream’s “A Waltz With The Seventh Crane” is also available on major download stores like iTunes, Bandcamp, AmazonMP3. All the releases by the label can be streamed free on the website.

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Marionette ID release their new album “Alluvion” on Fluttery Records

Posted on February 21, 2012 by fluttery

Budapest’s extraordinary band, Marionette ID release a new album. Alluvion is released by Fluttery Records

Fluttery Records starts autumn with new Marionette ID album “Alluvion”. Marionette ID is a Hungarian experimental / post-rock band founded in 2008. After expanding to a greater audience, they played several European tours in 2010 and 2011. The bands appearance on many blogs, music websites made the label curious about the band and they have signed a recording agreement with Fluttery Records. The label started re-issuing their debut self-relase album “Emptiness Will Change Your Mind” in September 2010. The band and album received many good reviews. On a review on Sound As Language, the band received this comment “Subtle melodies are countered by moody instrumental passages and soothing vocals. Marionette ID possess an emotional weight and depth that truly set the band apart. This is post-hardcore at its most melodic and structured. Marionette ID are practicing a precision few bands dare to. If you are willing to give Emptiness Will Change Your Mind some time to grow, you will be richly rewarded.” C.W.Ross said “It hard to pin down the style of music played by the band because it changes depending on what song or even what part of a song you’re listening to at that particular time. You’ll hear everything from Indie and modern rock to post rock, progressive and even jam band elements in the eight songs that make up ‘Emptiness Will Change Your Mind’ and he gave 8.25/10 to the album. Blues Bunny made the comment “An interesting album, therefore, that would have appeal for those who like melody in their rock music or for those who seek to go further than indie rock snack food.”

It was 2011 when Marionette ID started recording their new album. Alluvion was recorded in Budapest from January till June, 2011. In their seven track new album, Marionette ID still try to flirt with interesting structures, heavy sounds using elements of post metal. The album is highly recommended if you like Isis, Cult Of Luna, Neurosis, Pelican, Russian Circles, Rosetta, Jesu, Tides From Nebula, Alcest, Mogwai, A Day To Remember, Alexisonfire, Enter Shikari, Escape The Fate, Thrice, Fugazi, Post-Metal, Post-rock.

Fluttery Records is an independent record label focusing on Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental, Electronic, Modern Classical music. All label releases can be streamed free on the label website. The album is available on major music download stores like Itunes, Bandcamp, AmazonMP3, Napster and eMusic. The CD can be purchased from the Fluttery Records website.

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Italian post-rock band En Plein Air release a self-titled album

Posted on February 20, 2012 by fluttery

En Plein Air’s brand new self-titled 2011 album has been released by Fluttery Records. Post-rock band harmonizes violin, cello and piano with instrumental rock

italian post-rock band En Plein Air

Critically acclaimed Italian post-rockers, En Plein Air release their self-titled full-length on Fluttery Records. The CD and the digital downloads are available. Also, listeners can stream all the songs free on the label website.

En Plein Air is a post-rock band from Rome / Italy which differ from their peers by using violin, cello and piano in their unique way with guitars, base and drum. The band has already moved its instrumental voice out of their country with the help of their label, Fluttery Records which is distributed from United States to the rest of the world.

They have been signed to the label in Summer of 2008 and released their 4 song EP “L’alba Irradia L’inutile Parola” in February 2009. The EP got great reviews; The Silent Ballet said “En Plein Air seems to be commenting on this movement through their music: the strings represent the natural light, the drums and guitars are neutral, and the synthesizer, like the tube paint, represents the modern catalyst.” In Forty pointed on the strings “Sad elegance of an ever-pervasive violin. The EP is at its dreamy best when these disparate elements are given freedom to roam, moving the music away from more routine post-rock territory.” According to Beautiful Freaks “The result reminds various influences which the band doesn’t hide: Mogwai, Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, Goodspeed You! Black Emperor not to mention a certain jazz and classic approach which gives elegants to the tunes. A suggestive cd which joins indie rock and ambience music, classicity and experimentation.” In another review, their music said to be “Smells like the wood of the ancient instruments projected into the future.”

After receiving great reviews around the world, En Plein Air started writing new songs for their debut album. They had experienced something awful while recording it; they left their instruments in the studio after the rehearsal, they discovered they were all stolen when they arrived the studio the next day. They haven’t lost the will and went on recording the self titled debut in the Play Wave studio in Rome. Soon after the recording sessions, the album has been sent to Metropolis Studio in London, UK.

They have released their debut full-length on March 20th, 2011 on Fluttery Records. The label owner Taner Torun says “En Plein Air have moved forward to another step with this album; all seven tracks are welcoming the new rising sun. Self titled album starts with calming piano entry and the song is followed with distorted guitars and violin climbing to the edge. Various instrumentation, various feelings follows. Guitars to strings, electronics to drums, each member collaborates to the beauty at their best.”

EPA 2011

The album can be purchased from Fluttery Records and its distributed worldwide. Also, it is available for digital download in major download stores like Itunes, AmazonMP3, Bandcamp and Shockhound. Fluttery Records is an independent record label releasing Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental, Electronic, Modern Classical music. All the songs can be streamed free on the label website.

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