FUTURE FLORA
With a hybrid jazz based on African grooves, Ethio-oriental melodies and psychedelic dub this Belgian five-piece creates an atmosphere where ancient and modern sounds fuse into a powerful, hypnotic and groovy sensation.
| Genre | Jazz |
|---|---|
| Format | CD |
| Cat. no | SDBANUCD09 |
| Label | SDBAN ULTRA |
| Artist | BLACK FLOWER |
| Release Date | 12/04/2019 |
| Carrier | CD |
| Barcode | 5414165106357 |
| Stock | In stock |
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TRACKLISTING
1 Black Flower - Early Days of Space Trav el Pt. 2
2 Black Flower - Maloya Bud
3 Black Flower - Hora de Aksum
4 B lack Flower - Clap Hands
5 Black Flower - Ohm Eye
6 Black Flower - Ankor W at
7 Black Flower - Future Flora
INFO
With a hybrid jazz based on African grooves, Ethio-oriental melodies and psych edelic dub this Belgian five-piece creates an atmosphere where ancient and moder n sounds fuse into a powerful, hypnotic and groovy sensation.
Receivi ng critical acclaim for their second album 'Artifacts' (2017), the Belgian quint et are pleased to announce the release of their much-anticipated third album ent itled 'Future Flora', released 12th April via Sdban Ultra on vinyl / cd / digita l.
Piloted by saxophonist/flutist/composer Nathan Daems (Ragini Trio, Dijf Sanders, Echoes of Zoo), the input of notorious musicians, drummer Simon Segers (MDC III, De Beren Gieren, Stadt), cornet player Jon Birdsong (dEUS, Beck , Calexico), keyboardist Wouter Haest (Voodoo Boogie) and bassist Filip Vandebri l (Lady Linn, The Valerie Solanas) leads to the specific universe that only Blac k Flower is able to create.
Where debut album 'Abyssinia Afterlife' ( 2014) and 'Artifacts' (2017) bathed in an atmosphere of psychedelics, mythical f igures, ancient sounds and modern cultures, new album 'Future Flora' refers to t he power of plants and their importance for the future.
"'Future Flor a' is a metaphor for the importance of feeding and watering powerful and revolut ionary ideas and initiatives that can save our world. You can compare it with pl ants that fight between the paving stones of the city for their future. These "u rban warriors" need water to survive and grow. Their future and ours depends ent irely on how we look at the plant world", says Daems.
Black Flower's musical cross-pollination of sounds and rhythms remain on 'Future Flora', but th ere is still room for a more Western touch with Romanian and Maloya (Réunion) in fluences. Daems developed his own arrangements where Western, Oriental and Ethio pian scales and chords are fused together to create a real mix of traditional in strumentation and modern electrical vibrations.
The strong underlying groove is omnipresent, but the room for psychedelics, folklore and experimentat ion grows. Songs like new single 'Hora de Aksum' combine modern western rhythms with doses of Balkan eccentricities while 'Future Flora' takes you on a psyche-d elicious 21th century Ethio-dub-jazz trip with echoes of Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti.
"The general feeling that dominates is that of strength and pe rseverance. The feeling that we have to fight for our future and that we have to do it now! The whole album is interspersed with this atmosphere and sounds swi rling, haunting and ecstatic. For those who once saw Black Flower live at work, this energy will be extremely recognizable", he adds.