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Flëur

Flëur is a musical collective from Ukrainian city Odesa, quite unique for Ukrainian scene. The basis of collective are two original members and frontwomen Olha Pulatova (Ольга Пулатова) and Olena Voinarovska (Олена Войнаровська) 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 Olena and Olha. 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].

Band history

Flëur was formed by Olha Pulatova and Olena Voinarovska in Odesa in February 2000. In March 2000 fleutist Yuliya Zemlyana joined them. According to autobiographical story by Olha Pulatova, it was Yuliya 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 Kateryna Serbina (cello), Oleksiy Tkachevsky (drums), Vitaliy Didyk (contrabass) and Oleksiy Dovhaliev (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 Odesa and capital of Ukraine Kyiv, 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 Pavlo Shevchuk (Павло Шевчук) - the producer of Mumiy Troll band)[2].

Side Projects

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

  • Ольга Пулатова (Olha Pulatova) 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".
  • Олена Войнаровська (Olena Voinarovska), Олексій Ткачевський (Oleksiy Tkachevsky), former Flëur member Олексій Довгалєв (Oleksiy Dovhaliev), Катерина Котельникова (Kateryna Kotelnykova) and Анастасія Кузьміна (Anastasiya Kuzmina) take part in projects "М.Р.Ф" ("Мой розовый фашистик", "My Little Pink Faschits") and English language "Amurekimuri" project.
  • Олексій Довгалєв (Oleksiy Dovhaliev) also has his own project "The Клюквінs" ("The Klukwins", klukwa means cranberry in Russian).
  • Алла Лужецька (Alla Luzhetska) and Анастасія Кузьміна (Anastasiya Kuzmina) take part in project "ТИМ" ("Тайный Институт Мозга", "Secret Brain Institute").
  • Former Flёur member Юлія Земляна (Yuliya Zemlyana) takes part in projects "Аддарая" ("Addaraya") and "Inversus".

Members

  • Ольга Пулатова (Olha Pulatova) - piano, vocals
  • Олена Войнаровська (Olena Voinarovska) - guitar, vocals
  • Алла Лужецька (Alla Luzhetska) - flute
  • Олексій Ткачевський (Oleksiy Tkachevsky) - drums
  • Віталій Дідик (Vitaliy Didyk) - contrabass, bass guitar
  • Катерина Котельникова (Katheryna Kotelnykova) - keyboards
  • Анастасія Кузьмина (Anastasiya Kuzmina) - violin
  • Олександра Дідик (Oleksandra Didyk) - cello
  • Володислав Міцовський (Volodyslav Mitsovsky) - percussion

Former members

  • Юлія Земляна (Yuliya Zemlyana) — flute
  • Катерина Сербіна (Kateryna Serbina) — cello
  • Олексій Довгалєв (Oleksiy Dovhaliev) — keyboards, acoustic guitar

Session Members

  • Володимир Нессі (Volodymyr Nessi)
  • Андрій Басов (Andriy Basov)
  • Олексій Козміді (Oleksiy Kozmidi)
  • Георгій Матвіїв (Heorhiy Matviyiv)

Discography

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

Albums released in France

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

Collections

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

Singles

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

Unofficial releases

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

Official

Fan resources

Interviews

Other

References

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