from 'Gone' [10''|DIGITAL]
Denovali Records · den174
available on all formats at [http://denovali.com/floex]

On Veronika Vlková's painting for Floex' new EP “Gone”, the mountain ghosts are watching the flood from the mountain tops which stick out of water. In his latest work Floex is trying to express the melancholic mood of the last days of stability and harmony. While “Gone” thematizes instability expressed by the Apocalypse in a “macroscopic sense”, and musically for Tomáš in the quite traditional way of vocal pieces, the other two short ambient tracks accompanying the title song reflect the theme in different ways.

“Saturnin Fire And The Restless Ocean” creates a kind of “microscopic world” counterpart to “Gone”. It was inspired by the thoughts on inner harmony by Tomáš' Chinese medicine doctor friend: when mind and heart are in balance, the heart is like shining fire and the mind is like a calm and still ocean. If things are getting unstable, the heart's fire is becoming volatile and the mind's ocean's waves start to swell. While “Saturnin …” is a very intimate song on this self-reflection of the personal psychic landscape, it easily becomes a strong epic hymn in the hands of Joe Acheson of Hidden Orchestra. With this, Joe is returning the remix favour on Hidden Orchestra's earlier Denovali Records release “Flight”, which included Floex' “Dust Remix”. It is great to listen to another offspring of the continuing dialogue between these musical mates.

There are more things that all songs of this release have in common - the typical sound of Floex' Petrof piano. It endorses the melancholic and ethereal mood of the EP songs, and the final four-hand piano piece “Time To Go” makes no exception. It includes field recordings grasping the theatrical “farewell” scene from a sound installation at the Brixen Fortress during the Manifesta festival. This song was originally created from the four-hand composition of Tomáš and his pianist friend Jirí Libánský, who met during their improvisation project “Orlak”.

The title song “Gone” was especially composed for the Floex live vocalist Sára Vondrášková of Never Sol and meant to be performed on concerts, and it indeed soon become the pivotal song of Floex' playlist. The lyrics were written by Tomáš' long term collaborator Anya Stuart who besides being a singer, writer and musician works also as a movie director. When she heard the song she immediately offered Tomáš to make a video clip for it. Currently living in Paris, it no surprise that the main inspiration source for the video was the medieval French 'Apocalypse Tapestry' in Angers nearby Paris. Working with her photographer friend Michal Ureš behind the camera, they created free contemporary reinterpretations of selected scenes of the tapestry based on super slow motion shootings. This perfectly exemplifies the idea behind the song, a very odd moment in our life we don't recognise since it is happening very slowly from our personal point of view but very fast from the point of view of mankind. People are still behaving as if nothing would happen or change, but the fire is already behind their doors, the old times have already gone.

“Gone” is closing a certain period of Floex' production which started with his 2nd full length album “Zorya” in 2011. After getting such a great feedback on this release, Tomáš decided to get back to it, pick up his favorite track “Veronika's Dream” and give it a little bit more attention. The result of this effort you can find as a downloadable bonus track accompanying this EP: a remix of “Veronika's Dream” by Dikolson, Tomáš favourite producer, and general iconic figure of the electronic music scene in Prague. Moreover, after about a year of preparation, a video clip for the original song was made. About 20 people, headed by director Tomáš Hájek, visual artist Anna Krticová and Veronika Vlková herself created rather a short movie inspired by Tomáš Dvorák's crazy surrealistic imaginary: the one-eyed Veronika is eaten by a wolf and inside of his stomach a floorball match is happening. She fights against her psychological antipode for her missing eye and wins just to uncover deeper sides of her existence.

The 10'' comes in a special thick gatefold sleeve, on two different vinyl colors and with a free download code.

For fans of HIDDEN ORCHESTRA, ERIK SATIE, JON HOPKINS or BAT FOR LASHES.

Gone

Floex - Gone Feat. Never Sol

El Toro

!!! These are stripped-down 128mp3 snippets of the original tracks!!!

Artist: Felix Laband
Title: Deaf Safari
Cat No: CPT 470-1 / -2
Format: 2LP incl. cardboard CD / CD / digital
Release: 29th May 2015

TRACKLISTING:

1. The Savage Bush Hotel (6:25)
2. Im So High. I Swear I Could (4:55)
3. Ding Dong Thing (11:59)
4. Righteous Red Berets (9:12)
5. Squeeze The Trigger (9:09)
6. The Devil Threatens Me (12:55)
7. Down The Garden Path (12:28)
8. Getting Old (5:05)
9. Pietermaritzburg (4:47)

ARTIST STATEMENT

Deaf Safari is an audio collage of subjects that interest me and speak of the world I live in.
It is an album composed of sampled recordings from the media landscape that has been the soundtrack to my life over the last ten years.

The most important development in my current music and as can be heard on Deaf Safari has been my understanding of the beauty and power of the spoken word. I have experienced severe indifference to contemporary pop and electronic music as a whole over the last many years, as I have felt that social comment of any relevance has been ignored by music in general.
Deaf Safari attempts to bring sociopolitical comment into my music without taking any specific stand.
Sampled outside of musical influence directly from the news; from preacher sermons or from contemporary African documentaries.
I have finally created a story with sound that I feel accurately conveys my personal experience with the African world I live in.

My musical influences on this album lie mostly with local Kwaito house. Deaf Safari is an experiment within certain boundaries of the 4/4 genre, to create my own South African "house" album.
I am proud and inspired about the South African Kwaito house scene.
However, as with my first three albums, "Thin Shoes In June“ (2001) - "4/4 Down The Stairs“ (2002) and "Dark Days Exit“ (2005), I am still interested in making strange and evocative music.

American Roots music from the earlier periods of the 20th century has deeply resonated with me during the making of this album.
The incredible field recordings by Alan Lomax of Negro prison and chain gang work songs, and the
beautiful early recordings of artists such as Leadbelly have had a major influence on Deaf Safari.

I am truly excited to release this album and to start performing in the music world again. It has been ten years since I released "Dark Days Exit , and although I have been purposefully absent from the music world, I have none the less never stopped making music.
I feel that I have finally arrived at a mature and challenging stage in my pursuit of making emotional music of relevance .

Felix Laband 13=02=2015

Links:

facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Felix-Laband/18041251748
soundcloud: @felix-laband
resident advisor: www.residentadvisor.net/dj/felixlaband

Felix Laband live @ Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 2015:
new.livestream.com/accounts/128788…videos/76528193

Felix Laband live @ Festival au bord de l’eau (Sierre, 2012):
Aubordeleau – Festival-weekend-au-bord-de-10

Deaf Safari

I'm So High, I Swear I Could...

Felix Laband - I'm So High, I Swear I Could...

Maestro

The Second Reinassance

A while ago I heard the latest album from Neneh Cherry. On one particular song she sings about her past- and present life in NY city. I liked it so much I just had to take it to the studio... 

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JFZxjDoUEY
Album link: https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/blank-project-bonus-track/id775753058
MR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/djmikeravelli

Neneh Cherry - Across The Water (Mike Ravelli Edit)

Luigi Cinque - Garritm Core Amante (MoM Edit)

recorded live @ Tétris, Le Havre, 04 -07 -15

Section 7 (Live Version)

Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun, and it is the second largest planet with a mass more than 95 times that of Earth. Saturn has 62 moons and takes more than 10,000 days to orbit the Sun. That’s about 30 Earth years. Saturn is most famous for its nine rings which are made of ice and other particles. Saturn is the highest planet in occult cosmology and therefore closest to God.


https://francoissvalis.bandcamp.com/track/saturn

Saturn

LoPhone

OFFICIAL VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B2CoO7A3nq4

THEN UNFOLD

Creating my own roadshow for the sake of pleasing life.
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Booking:
dav.pospisil@gmail.com

Concerts:
16.9 Gus Gus + François Svalis
9.8 Jon Hopkins + François Svalis
17.5 HVOB + François Svalis, Brno
25.5 Tschechisches zentrum, Berlin 
19.5 Keller, Berlin
11.5 Inverze, Ostrava
10.5 Jan Gemrot exhibition, Prague
21.4 Fri-Son, Fribourg, Switzerland
07.4 Noshit, Brno 
06.4 Café Pavlac, Prague
12.1 François Svalis + Manoid, Schron, Poznan
3.11 François Svalis + Max Cooper, Brno
23.10 François Svalis + Goldfrapp, Prague
4.10 François Svalis + Ventolín, Prague
14.6 Fête de la Musique, Rostock
13.6. Tsechien Centrum, Berlin
11.5  François Svalis + Vök, Prague