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Flotation Walls is a Columbus, Ohio group that combines choral music, psych-folk, IDM, Tropicalia, cabaret, Ye-Ye and orchestral music into a distinct brand of intelligent art-pop. Since its inception in 1996 as an experimental performance group, Flotation Walls has been led by singer/songwriter/instrumentalist Carlos Avendaño through many different styles and formats.
In 2004, Avendaño began work on NATURE. Over its five years in the making, the album has grown to feature the efforts of over 25 musicians. The songs move through various areas of 20th- and 21st-century music, from the French-waltz-turned-Disney-nightmare "Sperm & Egg," to the cinematic, four-on-the-floor memento mori "Worms." Avendano's recurrent lyrical themes of mating, youth, desperation and family provide a disarming narrative among heavy orchestration and soaring choral arrangements.
Following the release of NATURE, Flotation Walls will be quitting their jobs and touring indefinitely in support of the album. Visit myspace.com/flotationwalls for tour dates. |
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