Got my Blackflower / Artifacts LP today, their new release
It's great, I like it a lot,,,you can check for some complete songs here putting your mouse to the album cover:
http://www.blackflower.be/#!/music
The vinyl is very good,,only in a few places where things are getting very buisy
it's loosing track a bit & I have the impression of a light compression.
I cannot remember this being the case with my 'Abbysinial' CD,,might be the LP is on a limit where the CD would not be. (only a few seconds are affected, 99% is just absolutely fine.)
Either way, from the cover art and material used the vinyl is a beauty, as always with Black Flower.
It doesn't come across on the webpage, but holding the cover gives an impression of holding a piece of art actually.
Their best I have heard musically is probably 'Ghost Radio',
that's a bomb simply...the other two are seriously good and I think I would also put the new one above Abbysinial.
Music I would put short as Thievery Corporation for intellectuals with a heavy bang for Jazz.
Very earthbound groundlayer of bass, afrikan-oriented horn section, funk guitar & intelligent noise samples form an entirely homogenic whole.
Sounds strange, is actually really surfing the never-heard wave effortlessly..
Ideas I think Pink Floyd would have been proud of in some point of their career.
Flute haters should beware & have a good test-listen first.
However..I hate flute basicly, esp. Jethro Tull, but I do like this one,,,no idea why..