Probably some of the best news I’ve heard all day. The amazing space-rock-psych orchestra The Flowers of Hell have announced details of their third album.
Called O, it’ll be released via Optical Sounds on 15th November, coming on double-sided CD / DVD with a regular stereo mix on the CD, plus 5.1 surround sound on the DVD, with a live concert film and various other goodies.
The album itself is one, 45 minute neo-classical instrumental track that was largely improvised.
It does have a lot to live up to though, last year’s Come Hell Or High Water was a personal favourite.
I didn’t know this, but the press release mentions that band members Jarvis and Knott are among the 3% of the world’s population who have synaesthesia, a neurological condition that causes the senses to intermingle. Essentially Jarvis sees sounds as shapes, while Knott thinks in terms of colours. “The discussions in the studio were rather interesting as a result,” recalls Jarvis. “They went along the lines of, ‘Tom, that cello is a bit too furry right now’. ‘I’m glad you said something about it, Greg, it was seeming a little too red to me’. While I was building a virtual world of shimmering, pulsating, floating shapes around us, he was swathing us in vibrant moving colours, casting them all about the room.”
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