Flore - RITUALS en vinyl!
<p>You may have heard the news: I'm coming out soon on a new album and it's called <strong>RITUALS</strong>.</p>
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<p>This album closes a serie of some 3 eps and 2 free downloads, all released on the label I co-manage with my friend Marc, <strong>POLAAR</strong>, between 2015 and 2019.</p>
<p>Considered primarily as an <strong>audio-visual performance</strong> created with my friends Yannick, Pierre and Pym of the <strong>WSK collective</strong>, RITUAL (its first name) changed and took a considerable place in my artistic development: at the beginning it represented a new start for me, a new challenge and a desire to collaborate with a team of visual artists to develop music and graphic imprint in parallel, inspired by <strong>SF, mythology and symbols</strong>.</p>
<p>Over time, it has shapped into a personnal <strong>territory of expression</strong> where the objective is neither to stick to fashionable musical aesthetics, nor to "club music" writing codes but to be in the fusion between what primarily influenced me: a mix of <strong>experimental soundtracks, electronic music fuelled with sound system culture, psychedelic rock and techno/industrial atmospheres</strong>.</p>
<p>Here is a <strong>teaser of the first version of RITUAL</strong>, that we put online in 2015 (by Johann Prud'homme, in partnership with Projet Bizarre!) </p>
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<p>So last May, I started locking myself in my studio and here is the result:</p>
<p><strong>RITUALS</strong>. <strong>12 songs</strong> with tribal, techno and bass accents. <strong>12 ways</strong> to express my aspirations, my research, my accidents or anger.</p>
<p>Here is a first extract, <strong>Coded Language</strong>, where i reconnect with my drum'n bass background, full of tension.</p>
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<p>The cover was designed by a young artist by the name of <strong>Dorian Rigal</strong>, who brilliantly manipulates 3D, in images or in animated videos (I recommend his work alongside Leon, under the name of <a href="http://www.minuitdigital.com" target="_blank"><strong>Neon Minuit</strong></a>, but I will tell you will speak in more detail soon).</p>
<p>The layout is by my friend <strong>Richard d'Arte Diem</strong>, sober and elegant as usual.</p>
<p>The <strong>audio mastering is the work of Cédric Ifa</strong>, with whom I have worked since the early days of POLAAR. I can only recommend that you entrust your songs to his expert hands, Cédric is a master in the art of combining power and subtlety. Like this example below, The Way You, taken from <a href="https://floremusic.bandcamp.com/album/ritual-part-3" target="_blank">RITUAL Part3</a>, which came out last year ...</p>
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<p>The release of <strong>RITUALS</strong> is therefore scheduled for <strong>April 7 in digital</strong> ... but ...</p>
<p><strong>Today, I ask you something: help me finance the production of RITUALS in vinyl and receive your copy at home!</strong></p>
<p>You can choose <strong>several ways to show your support</strong> by choosing from the contributions and the rewards on the right of this page.</p>
<p>You can also help me with the realization of this project without receiving material consideration: have a look at the last section "I give what I want" at the bottom right of this page.</p>
<p>Here is the tracklisting of the vinyl format, 10 songs in total:</p>
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<li>Aether</li>
<li>Coded Language</li>
<li>Evidence</li>
<li>Rituals</li>
<li>Numen</li>
<li>Sigui So</li>
<li>A Thousand years</li>
<li>You were here</li>
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<p><em>* Some details about the vinyl:</em></p>
<p>Engraving on Lacquers - Two faces - accomplished by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/krakindub" target="_blank">Krak in Dub</a> at <strong><a href="http://www.dkmastering.com/" target="_blank">DK Mastering</a></strong>, Paris.</p>
<p>Manufacturing / Lacquers / Matrix Transfer at <strong><a href="http://www.mcommusique.com" target="_blank">M Com'Musique</a></strong>, factory based in Brittany (cocorico!)</p>
<p>Two sides 200 12 "Vinyls - 140Gr - <strong>Translucent</strong></p>
<p>200 LP covers - CMYK</p>
<p>Square back 3 to 3mm - 300 g / m2</p>
<p>Black sub-sleeves 2 rounded corners</p>
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