Ukraine newfolk/alternative folk-pop/chamber-folk/rock

Flëur

CD (2002), CD (2004)

Prikosnovenie Flëur (UKR,2002)***°

airplay : Tr.3, "On the dark side of the moon" 4 min, Tr.5, "Dancing God" 5 min,

Tr.6, "A sad Clown" 4 min, Tr.7, "Carrousel" 7 min 20

Independent (neo-)folk-pop with neoclassical and neo-wave touches, and often dynamic production. Group from Odessa, Ukraïne. The third track is the most dynamic track, which is also released at the Prikosnovenie label's sampler. "Caroussel" singing (only) has a Cocteau Twins flavour.

Webpage : http://www.fleur.kiev.ua/ or http://www.fleurmusic.com Contact : vlad@falkondesign.com

Info : http://membres.lycos.fr/prikos/groupes/fleurk.html ; lyrics in English here

Review : http://www.fluxeuropa.com/fleur-prikosnovenie.htm

& http://www.chaindlk.org/reviews/reviews.php3?search=fl%EBur

Soundfiles of 3 other tracks : http://www.prikosnovenie.com/auditorium/prik063.html

See also http://www.prikosnovenie.com/groupes/fleur.html#prikos

Prikosnovenie Flëur : Magic (UKR,2002)****

first chosen for airplay : Tr.7, "Medaillon" , Tr.8, "I will do it", Tr.9, "Never",

Tr.11, "Russian Roulette" 5 min but finally track 1 & 2 were taken

The second album by the core duo Olga Pulatova (piano, vox) and Elena Voynarovskaya (guitar, vox), is expanded to an 8-piece chamber-music band (chamber instruments, accordion, flutes keyboards and drums). These are more often slightly sad songs with chamber music setting, but also a few more more up indie-rockier songs. With a more full sound and wider range than the previous one...

Group info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%ABur

Description : http://strangefortune.com/cd.php?id=2645

Label info & audio : http://www.prikosnovenie.com/groupes/fleurk.html#magic

& http://www.prikosnovenie.com/groupes/fleurk.html

Spanish info : http://www.sonidobscuro.com/articulos/resenas/549

Home-and fanpages : http://www.fleurmusic.com/ & http://www.myfleur.net/ & http://www.fleur.kiev.ua/

Other review : http://www.premonition.org/premor.php3?lien=chro/chro.php3X1Xcid=235006X3X235006&ta=10

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