{"product_id":"floco-ill-be-my-own-mirror-field-work-recordings","title":"FLOCO - I'll be my own mirror (Field Work Recordings)","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’ll be my own mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the debut EP from London-based composer\/violinist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFLOCO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a corporeal incantation of waking dreams. Transitional visions imagined through ambient driven, electronic soundscapes with folk music at the very heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter collaborating and traveling extensively with peers like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMartha Skye Murphy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLondon Ambient Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she has settled to confluence all her influences and experiences into this captivating body of work. Building from what she already has.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTender and spacious, it glistens with introspection; an uncanny landscape of both processed and found sounds sews a patchwork of FLOCO’s dream-state panorama. Coalescing digital and analogue with astute manipulation, hand-built diapason organs or briefly borrowed flugel horns are passed through a veil to an untouched landscape. Sonic grain is wrought and layered over a bed of intimacy and enchantment where abstracted vocals are treated as instruments, building to something more real than the sum of what she has.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCapturing commutes along the canal, Florence’s violin intersperses the refractions of dream-like kodachrome in opener \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePortals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. This meditation on addiction and disconnection is a soft invite into FLOCO’s recitational house. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSlow Day \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edraws its power from the frustration and intuition with which it was written. FLOCO says,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “I was returning to my teenage years of playing the guitar in my bedroom without second-guessing what comes out. It is reflective, desperate \u0026amp; restrained anger, almost written like a letter.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout You \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eacts as a folk lullaby - built from the bones of the hymns and traditional songs FLOCO sang as a child, accompanied by the tactile homemade semitonal glass harp made by sound artist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLee Scott Newcombe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, indulging the EP’s childlike liminality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn from a collection of improvisation and electronic experimentation, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’ll be my own mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e arrives as a personal milestone of FLOCO’s intuition. Writing, producing, and mixing the EP herself, she taps into the very source of a truly beautiful creative duality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Field Work Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45409917665389,"sku":"FWR002","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0551\/3265\/1629\/files\/FLOCO_-_FWR002_-_IBMOM_3000X3000_215ad623-3789-41d6-881f-56eca28872e3.png?v=1782724392","url":"https:\/\/songathletics.com\/products\/floco-ill-be-my-own-mirror-field-work-recordings","provider":"Song Athletics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}