title: little things
artist: V.A.
cat#: FLAU04
date: 12.Mar.2008
buy: boomkat
 Everyday, there are little things happen around us that charm our lives.
And today, we are going to charm your life with "Little Things",
the first cd compilation by flau.
Beautifully themed as tiny homemade music made of breathtaking acoustics
sounds, "Little Things" showcases works by brilliant local
and foreign artists of new generation around the world. With the warm
melodies that blossoming from the fresh sounds of many live musical
instruments like guitars, pianos, music boxes, trumpet, glockenspiels
and violins, this handmade music that uses these ordinary material and
structure becomes miraculous here. "Little Things" ensembles
most previous unreleased gems that portray the vivid moments of spring,
ranging from innovative field-recordings, old style singer-songwriting
to cutting edge electronics, stunning improvisation and gorgeous folktronica.
All music-styles becomes equivalent through this compilation.
"Little Things" is about to fascinate you, as much as other
little things that has enriched your life.
And we say, it is these little things in life , that count.
-tracklist-
01 Jasper Leyland - Worth Ash
02 Rachael Dadd - Happiness
03 Hood - This
Year's First Storm
04 Patten -
Memory Pictures
05 Hirono Nishiyama
- World's End Fanfare
06 Ethan Rose - Relations
07 PoPoyans - Shukujitsu
08 Part Timer
- Only Natural
09 F.S.Blumm meets Luca Fadda - Marcel & Maura
10 Pan Am Scan - Rosa
11 Radicalfashion - Happy End
12 Marla Hansen - Shuffle Your Feet
13 Cokiyu - Round in Fog
14 Kira Kira -Happahrólfur Salísú (version)
15 The Boats - There Are Tunnels Where We Live
16 Lori Scacco - The Poles
17 Dale Berning - Clicking
18 Iris Piers / aus - Opened（video)
Reviews
Little Things establishes a global network of international artists
who all share in a similar musical vision, regardless of how different
their respective approaches might be...absolutely gorgeous material..
- boomkat
<<full review
-artists-
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Jasper Leyland |
Jasper
Leyland is the alias of sound-explorer Jonathan Brewster, who currently
resides in rural North Yorkshire (U.K.). His work combines melodic
drone structures, subtly ebbing textures with playfully rhythmic
acoustic manipulations and splashes of field recordings. Moving
between a variety of instrumental sources such as zither, chimes,
melodica, acoustic and electric guitars, and accordion, Brewster
extracts fragments of sound before applying restrained digital
processing, layers of field recordings, and other incidental aural
flotsam, to craft organic compositions.
http://www.jasperleyland.co.uk/ |
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Rachael
Dadd |
Rachael
Dadd is musician from bristol, has supported the likes of Jeffrey
Lewis, I Am Kloot, King Creosote, James Yorkston, Diane Cluck, Nizlopi,
Goldrush, SIA (from Zero 7), Peter Bruntnell, and Paul Curreri.
She joined in some tour dates with Jeffrey Lewis in his band. She
is also part of the Fence collective's extended family along with
Romanhead and Rozi Plain, and they all played at the Homegame festival.
Rachael has recorded various albums and EP's. Her first was even
voted by Matt Brown as his favourite 'ear to the ground' album for
April 2003's edition of Logo.
She released some albums on Cleaner Records and Angel's Egg.
http://www.rachaeldadd.co.uk/ |
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Hood |
Hood
was formed in 1990 in Wetherby, West Yorkshire by brothers Christopher
and Richard Adams. To this day they remain a prolific, enigmatic
outfit with a revolving door membership and a sound that has taken
in lo-fi, electronica, dub, hip hop, post rock and pop.Two albums
from Domino were gentle meditative affairs which aligned them with
the first breed of post rock bands and earned them tours with Mogwai,
Low, Do Make Say Think and appearances at the All Tomorrows Parties
festivals.
After a two year gap, Hood released their most well known album
to date ‘Cold House'. The band then toured Europe and the USA before
returning with ‘Outside Closer’ their most accomplished record to
date. The album was extremely well received and the band embarked
on tours to USA, Japan, Western Europe and Russia.
http://www.hoodmusic.net/ |
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patten |
patten
is a London-based purveyor of incredibly nuanced, evocative instrumentals,
reminiscent of a wobbly old mixtape of early electronics, Library
recordings, British folk and Kosmische music that's been left out
in the sun for too long.
“Patten draws the listener into a simplified world of ordered purposeful
harmony, as microscopic in its exquisite detail as the music of
the spheres is vast and expansive in its wonder"– The Wire
http://www.syntxrrr.com/ |
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Hirono
Nishiyama |
Hirono
Nishiyama is the solo project of Hirono Nishiyama, whose previous
releases on Childisc defy categorization with an eclectic musical
fusion of electronics, bossa nova, and quirky pop playfulness.She
began her career with an album for Nobukazu Takemura’s Childisc
label (2001’s Pied Piper and the Kaisentou EP) as well as collaborated
with Takemura, Wechsel Garland and Kazumasa Hashimoto as a vocalist.
She has also released work on Haroumi Hosono’s Daisyworld label
(The Humming Of Tiny People, 2002) and Tokyo’s Noble Recods (Suomi,
2003) as Gutevolk.
http://www.gutevolk.com/ |
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Ethan
Rose |
Ethan
Rose is a musician, sound-artist, and faux-pilot who resides in
portland, oregon. His music reflects his varied interests in old
technologies, new sounds, and all things both inside and out. Much
of ethan's music has centered around his fascination with automated
instruments from years long past, including things like music boxes,
player pianos, and carillons. Although, don't be mistaken - he is
more interested in pulling new sounds and ideas out of these old
and varied devices rather than treating them with a sense of preservation.
Not to say that he doesn't appreciate them for what they are, only
that he is more interested in linking their histories to the modern
age for the love of the sounds that they make.
http://www.ethanrosemusic.com/ |
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PoPoyans |
PoPoyans
is tokyo-based femal folk duo, formed by nonchan and cheru in 2005,
Their sounds is very simple and lovery.
http://www.popoyans.com/ |
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Part
Timer |
| Part
Timer (John McCaffrey) was one half of the English electronica duo
Clickits. A move across the globe eventually stopped him from persuading
Jonny Russell into working on their joint project. Now living in
Melbourne, John tries to make folkish, organic, sort-of-electronic
songs in the gaps between working and drinking. |
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F.S.Blumm
meets Luca Fadda |
F.S.Blumm
is Musician / Composer, has released several solo works on labels
like Morr, Staubgold and Plop, plays in the duo Sack und Blumm,
writes radio plays and released his first book of drawings on Ahornfelder.
Luca Fadda is trumpeter from NY,They released the album from Ahornferder
last year. Wonderful guitar and double bass lines are mixed with
edited toy instruments and found objects.
http://fsblumm.free.fr/ |
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Pan
Am Scan |
| Pan
Am Scan is the unit of London based sound-artist Simon Harris and
Berlin based musician Masayoshi Fujita (El Fog). They create improvisations with
vibraphone and live processing. Sampled fragments of the live vibraphone
are looped and phased creating a slowly evolving texture. 'Rosa'
is the debut track from this project and was recorded in Berlin
during summer '07. |
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Radicalfashion |
Hirohito
Ihara, who founded radicalfashion in Kobe, Japan, speaks of the
subcouncious influence of his surroundings on his work. His beautiful
debut lp, "Odori" is a composite of contrasting elements.
In all senses it is new, fresh, and distinctive yet it sounds familiar.
It's a fascinating sound-world where elegant, sophisticated piano
compostitions and highbrow experimentalism with uncommon scales
collide with playful, modern electronics. It's a lethargic sonata,
free but structured, composed but improvisational.
http://www.heftyrecords.com/ |
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Marla
Hansen |
Marla
Hansen writes songs for herself and her viola.
A quiet performer, she has been known to tame an entire noisy bar
with a single song. She recently purchased a guitar in Berkeley,
California, and though she does enjoy all those extra strings, she
will never give up her viola and its lovely melancholy nature.
Her debut EP, entitled Wedding Day, was released from Standard Recording.
She migrated to New York via Long Island and currently lives in
Brooklyn. Marla also performs and records with many other New York-based
musicians, including My Brightest Diamond, Sufjan Stevens, The National,
Inlets, Clare and the Reasons,Oneida, Duncan Sheik, and even Jay-Z
and Kanye West.
http://www.marlahansenmusic.com/ |
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Cokiyu |
Cokiyu,
who was born in Ehime, finished her master degree of musicology
study
in Sonology Depertment of Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo. From
her student time,she had created works using Max/MSP, the works
like contemporary music for voice and woodwind instruments, and
percussion instruments. She started to do live performance in 2002,
and opened her works to the public with the web. Since 2006 she
has participated in some compilation albums, and also has worked
as the vocalist of aus, and in 2007 she became the member of Shugo
Tokumaru & The Magic Band as the toy pianist.
http://www.cokiyu.net/ |
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Kira
Kira |
Kira
Kira is Kristin Bjork Kristjansdottir's one-girl band, most of the
time although kite symphonies and dictaphone orchestras sometimes
play along.She's a founding member of Icelandic art collective Kitchen
Motors. For the past 10 years or so she has tinkered with noises
in bands such as Spúnk, Big Band Brutal, The Sigridur Nielsdottir
Experience and as Kira Kira since autumn 1999 when she lived in
Japan.
She has composed music for theatre, dance and movies and performed
exhibited in various odd places in the world on shelves, in church
towers and parking lots.
Skotta, Kira Kira's debut album was released on Smekkleysa Records
(Bad Taste Ltd) in 2006 and she is now finishing her second album
Out Map to The Monster Olympics.
http://this.is/kirakira/ |
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The
Boats |
'hiss
crackle
hiss hiss dsp dsp
notes
notes hiss
hiss scratch crackle
small beat
crackle notes
beat again.
The Boats.'
http://www.moteer.co.uk/ |
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Lori
Scacco |
Lori
Scacco is a musician and sound artist based in NYC. After years
as co-founder and guitarist of 90's indie pop band Seely (Too Pure,
UK), she released her first solo recording, Circles, on Scott Herren's
Eastern Developments label. In her work, Lori infuses largely instrumental
pieces with a lyrical exuberance, crafting narratives that merge
melody with heightened acoustic resonance. Through her multi-media
collaborations she investigates the tactile and experiential within
a physical space, repositioning traditional musical structures.
http://www.easterndevelopments.com/ |
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Dale
Berning |
Dale
Berning is a french/south african artist and musician based in london.
Her work includes live performance, sound installations, drawing,
recording (field and other...), soundtracks for film and video.
She is represented by takefloor, she works with Bo'Weavil Recordings,
London, and flaü.
Dale sings and plays a malagash harp, guitar, glockenspiel, calimba,
bells and bracelets, toys, chimes. |
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Iris
Piers |
Iris
Piers is now 24 years old. She uses a small digital camera, a magnifying
glass, pen, paper, voice and various instruments to create small
pieces of everyday surrealism on her laptop. For the past 4 years
she has had big and small exhibitions, screenings, collaborations
and prize nominations in many countries all over the world, her
favourites being Tokyo and Malmö. Most of her work is made in trains,
planes and cars as well as various apartments in Berlin and New
York. She is always looking for artist and musicians to create experimental
films and/or live cinema.
http://www.irispiers.com/ |
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aus |
aus
is Yasuhiko Fukuzono from Tokyo, one of the owner of flau. Since
the time of a teenager, he has been composing music for experimental
film works, and enormous tape works have been produced during this
period. He already has five gorgeous albums. In 2006 "Lang"
was released by preco,this album is no.1 avant-pop sales chart 2007
at Tower Records in Tokyo, Ulrich Schnauss, Joshua Eustis (aka,
telefon tel aviv),Manual and Bracken participate in this remix album.
His current video "with rain" was screened MTV Japan and
selected best music video with Beck, Subtle by Aurora 2007.
http://www.ausmusik.com/
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