Flevans - A Short Distance To Fall

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: JAL387V
Barcode: 5050580792326
Release Date: 25 Nov 2022
Genre: Dance

01: A Short Distance to Fall - Flevans
02: In Shadows - Flevans
03: It Takes the Whole Day - Flevans
04: Parasol - Flevans
05: For a While - Flevans
06: Legacy Spiral - Flevans
07: Heartaches - Flevans
08: We Walk Alone - Flevans
09: Digits - Flevans
10: I Got Soul - Flevans
11: This Troubled Earth - Flevans
12: Wings - Flevans

- Support on BBC 6Music (Gilles Peterson, Steve Lamacq, Huey Morgan & Craig Charles), Jazz FM, Mi-Soul, UNFOLD/Tru Thoughts Radio (Robert Luis), Reform Radio, Soho Radio, Delite Radio, Totally Wired Radio, KCRW, Indie Shuffle.

Talented multi-instrumentalist Flevans returns with his most musically expressive and personal long player, 'A Short Distance To Fall'.

A largely instrumental album, though peppered with lush vocal samples throughout, 'A Short Distance To Fall' is a listening experience and one meant to be savoured from start to finish - drawing you in and guiding you through an ever changing musical world, taking in snippets of electronica, disco, funk, beats, soul and downtempo - delivering them all with a warm, musical, lo-fi aesthetic.

With nods to luminaries such as The Avalanches, early Ninja Tune and Nightmares on Wax through to contemporaries such as Folamour and Art of Tones, the challenge was to create something cohesive that could traverse the different genres he loved whilst remaining true to the Flevans sound.

Diverse and eclectic, yet warm and cohesive throughout - from the atmospheric beats of 'In Shadows' the uplifting radio-ready warmth of first single 'It Take The Whole Day', the lurching groove of 'We Walk Alone' through to the driving disco of 'Digits' and 'I Got Soul', the album rewards repeated listens, never sitting still on one style or sound.