Future Flora, by Black Flower

Future Flora

by Black Flower

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Mr Crumbone There are only a few bands in Belgium that made me buy all their records, Black Flower is one of them. Their Ethio-inspired music is almost better then the real thing... Check those guys live if you have the opportunity!!!

Yokrimi One of my favorite band by those days.... Favorite track: Future Flora.

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1.	Black Flower - Early Days of Space Travel Pt. 2 04:29	buy track
2.	Maloya Bud 05:40	buy track
3.	Hora de Aksum 03:33	buy track
4.	Clap Hands 04:46	buy track
5.	Ohm Eye 02:44	buy track
6.	Ankor Wat 05:03	buy track
7.	Future Flora 13:22	buy track

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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.
Receiving critical acclaim for their second album ‘Artifacts’ (2017), the Belgian quintet are pleased to announce the release of their much-anticipated third album entitled ‘Future Flora’, released 12th April via Sdban Ultra.
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 Vandebril (Lady Linn, The Valerie Solanas) leads to the specific universe that only Black Flower is able to create.
Where debut album ‘Abyssinia Afterlife’ (2014) and ‘Artifacts’ (2017) bathed in an atmosphere of psychedelics, mythical figures, ancient sounds and modern cultures, new album 'Future Flora' refers to the power of plants and their importance for the future.
Black Flower’s musical cross-pollination of sounds and rhythms remain on ‘Future Flora’, but there is still room for a more Western touch with Romanian and Maloya (Réunion) influences. Daems developed his own arrangements where Western, Oriental and Ethiopian scales and chords are fused together to create a real mix of traditional instrumentation and modern electrical vibrations.
The strong underlying groove is omnipresent, but the room for psychedelics, folklore and experimentation 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-delicious 21th century Ethio-dub-jazz trip with echoes of Mulatu Astatke and Fela Kuti.

Tracklist:
A1. Early Days of Space Travel Pt. 2
A2. Maloya Bud
A3. Hora de Aksum
A4. Clap Hands
B1. Ohm Eye
B2. Ankor Wat
B3. Future Flora

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released April 12, 2019

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It is the youngest member of the N.E.W.S. Records family, based in Ghent, Belgium.

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