Flëur

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Flëur
Origin Odessa, Ukraine
Genres Dream Pop, Ethereal, Cardiowave (selfcalled)
Years active Since 2000 'til present time
Labels Prikosnovénie,
Paularis Music Group,
Lavina Music,
Nikitin recording company
Associated acts Аэроплан
Оля и Монстр
М.Р.Ф.
Amurekimuri
Dust Heaven
ТИМ
Аддарая
Inversus
The Клюквінs
Website http://www.fleurmusic.com/
Members
Ольга Пулатова (Olga Pulatova),
Елена Войнаровская (Helena Voynarovskaya),
Алла Лужецкая (Alla Luzhetskaya),
Алексей Ткачевский (Aleksey Tkachevskiy),
Виталий Дидык (Vitaliy Didyk),
Екатерина Котельникова (Catherine Kotelnikova),
Анастасия Кузьмина (Anastasia Kuzmina),
Александра Дидык (Alexandra Didyk),
Владислав Мицовский (Vladislav Mitsovskiy)

Flëur is a musical collective from Ukrainian city Odessa, quite unique for Ukrainian scene. The basis of collective are two original members and frontwomen Olga Pulatova (Ольга Пулатова) and Helena Voynarovskaya (Елена Войнаровская) that write lyrics, perform vocals and were previously writing all the music. Although currently the whole collective takes part in making music and arrangements, lyrics are still written by Helena and Olga. The genre of Flëur's music is hard to define as it combines many influences. Flëur originated as cooperation of two singer-songwriters and the music still bears s tiny resemblance of the genre, yet from the very beginning it was in a way different from typical singer-songwriter music. First official releases also had a touch of neoclassic/ethereal music. Because of the difficulties with picking right term for Flëur's music the collective itself made a term "cardiowave" (which later gave title to independent recording label from Odessa that was releasing some of Flëur's sideprojects), but when it comes to more alleged terms Flëur usually gets labeled as dream pop. The texts of Prikosnovénie label spoke of resemblance with Cocteau Twins, All about Eve and Bel Canto[1].

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[edit] Band history

Flëur was formed by Olga Pulatova and Helena Vojnarovskaya in Odessa in February 2000. In March 2000 fleutist Yulia Zemlianaya joined them. According to autobiographical story by Olga Pulatova, it was Yulia who came up with "Flëur" as a title for their collective. On 17-th of March they had their first live concert in Odessa. During 2000 and 2001 they were joined by Catherine Serbina (cello), Aleksey Tkachevskyi (drums), Vitaliy Didyk (contrabass) and Aleksey Dovgaliev (keyboards).

First official release was CD "Soft Touch" (which is English translation of "Прикосновение") released on independent French label Prikosnovénie. Only title of album was translated to English - all the lyrics and song titles in CD booklet were in Russian. One month later Ukrainian edition of the album came out under original title "Прикосновение". Two more releases followed on Prikosnovénie label, but these were the last ones on this label. After that Flëur was mostly released in CIS countries.

Currently Flëur has 5 officially released albums plus reissue of two early releases. The song "Шелкопряд" ("Silkworm") had the first place in "Chart Dozen" hit-parade of Russian radio Nashe Radio - Flëur got the prize in "Chart crack" nomination as best new band of 2007.

Since the early days until now Flëur's popularity is slowly but steadily growing. Besides live performances in hometown Odessa and capital of Ukraine Kiev, collective is extensively touring in Russia in recent years (2007, 2008, 2009), including many live performances in Moscow that where gathering full house of audience.

Also Flëur had been performing live on radio several times, had a TV rotation of video for song "Искупление"("Redemption") on Ukrainian music TV-channel M1 (video directed by Yevhen Tymokhin (Євген Тимохін), musical arrangement made by Pavel Schvchuk (Павло Шевчук) - the producer of Mumiy Troll band)[2].

[edit] Side Projects

Many current and former band members also participated in other musical projects.

  • Olga Pulatova (Ольга Пулатова) was a vocalist of "Аэроплан" ("Airplane") and "Оля и Монстр" ("Olya and The Monster") projects (both defunct now), and was tightly cooperating with project "Dust Heaven".
  • Елена Войнаровская (Helena Vojnarovskaya), Алексей Ткачевский (Aleksey Tkachevskyi), former Flëur member Алексей Довгалев (Aleksey Dovgaliev), Екатерина Котельникова (Catherine Kotelnikova) and Анастасия Кузьмина (Anastasia Kuzmina) take part in projects "М.Р.Ф" ("Мой розовый фашистик", "My Little Pink Faschits") and English language "Amurekimuri" project.
  • Алексей Довгалев (Aleksey Dovgaliev) also has his own project "The Клюквінs" ("The Klukwins", klukwa means cranberry in Russian).
  • Алла Лужецкая (Alla Luzhytskaya) and Анастасия Кузьмина (Anastasia Kuzmina) take part in project "ТИМ" ("Тайный Институт Мозга", "Secret Brain Institute").
  • Former Flёur member Юлия Земляная (Yulia Zemlianaya) takes part in projects "Аддарая" ("Addaraya") and "Inversus".

[edit] Members

  • Ольга Пулатова (Olga Pulatova) - piano, vocals
  • Елена Войнаровская (Helena Vojnarovskaya) - guitar, vocals
  • Алла Лужецкая (Alla Luzhytskaya) - flute
  • Алексей Ткачевский (Aleksey Tkachevskyi) - drums
  • Виталий Дидык (Vitaliy Didyk) - contrabass, bass guitar
  • Екатерина Котельникова (Catherine Kotelnikova) - keyboards
  • Анастасия Кузьмина (Anastasia Kuzmina) - violin
  • Александра Дидык (Alexandra Didyk) - cello
  • Владислав Мицовский (Vladislav Mitsovskiy) - percussion

[edit] Former members

  • Юлия Земляная (Yulia Zemlianaya) — flute
  • Катерина Сербина (Catherine Serbina) — cello
  • Алексей Довгалев (Aleksey Dovgaliev) — keyboards, acoustic guitar

[edit] Session Members

  • Владимир Несси (Vladimir Nessi)
  • Андрей Басов (Andrey Basov)
  • Алексей Козмиди (Aleksey Kozmidi)
  • Георгий Матвиив (Heorhiy Matviiv)

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums, released in Russia and Ukraine

  • 2002 — Прикосновение ("Soft Touch")
  • 2003 — Волшебство ("Magic")
  • 2004 — Сияние ("Shining")
  • 2006 — Всё вышло из-под контроля ("Everything is out of control")
  • 2008 — Эйфория ("Euphoria")
  • 2008 — Почти живой ("Almost alive") and Сердце ("Heart") - reissue of unofficial releases of 2000–2001 years

[edit] Albums released in France

  • 2002 — Prikosnovenie ("Soft Touch")
  • 2003 — Magic
  • 2004 — Siyanie ("Shine")

[edit] Collections

  • 2007 — Флёрография ("Fleurography")
  • 2007 — Трилогия ("Trilogy"): "Прикосновение"/"Soft Touch", "Волшебство"/"Magic" and "Сияние"/"Shining".
  • 2008 — Discography (all albums in MP3)

[edit] Singles

  • 2007 (December) — Два Облака ("Two clouds")

[edit] Unofficial releases

  • 2000 (July) — Почти живой ("Almost alive")
  • 2001 (January) — Сердце ("Heart")
  • 2001 (November) — Special Edition

[edit] External links

[edit] Official

[edit] Fan resources

[edit] Interviews

[edit] Other

[edit] References

  1. ^ Flëur on Prikosnovenie
  2. ^ Information on Flëur "Redemption" video filming on M1 Ukrainian music TV channel site
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