Flora, by Polypores

Flora

by Polypores

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Jamie Harley Lovely record ...shades of Soil Festivities by Vangelis but more bucolic and very gentle
Reminiscent of Edward Williams Life on Earth

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Flora - Earthtones Vinyl LP with Insert and Download Card
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"Flora" LP pressed on a new "Earthtones" heath and marsh two colour vinyl edition. Limited edition of 290 copies with insert and download code.
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	1.	Into The Tangle 03:11
	2.	Flora 05:33
	3.	Isolated Ecosystem 04:37
	4.	Autotrophs 01:46
	5.	Golden Mold 06:47
	6.	Giants 06:33
	7.	Mycelia 01:42
	8.	The Blusher 04:16
	9.	Strangebrook 05:59
	10.	Sky Man 03:20

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Reviews for “Flora”:

“Pure analog sweetness from Preston’s Polypores (Stephen James Buckley). Flora is one of those British synth LPs in the Ghost Box/Radiophonic Workshop vein. Electronics purr and twinkle as Buckley spins out tender almost-melodies across these ten tracks. If you’re partial to a little Boards Of Canada then you should make haste for Flora.”
Norman Records.

“Flora is just as good as you would expect from this superb analogue synthesist. From the eerie grittiness of the title track to the bleepy, sombre wobbles of “Golden Mould”, “Flora” has a touch of science fiction enveloping it. “Giants" could soundtrack the exploration of a distant, long abandoned alien planet, all ambient whines and echoing, stargazing synthesis…There’s a lot to enjoy here.'
Electronic Sound Magazine Issue 54.

“Flora was written and recorded in the long, hot summer of 2018." Says Stephen James Buckley (Polypores) “I didn't intend to write a record with a specific theme or sound, but, as is often the case, something eventually presented itself once I started playing around with my machines. I spent a lot of time walking in the woods and exploring some of the beautiful countryside around the North West of the UK. Whilst doing this I got a collection of field recordings, which ended up forming the compost from which the album grew. I'd have the recording playing in the background whilst writing, or running through loop pedals. I found that if I blended the field recordings in with my initial synth pieces, it added a whole new texture and depth to what was already there.

"It created a place in which the music lived. And that place was most definitely a forest. As I got deeper into the writing process a vague narrative formed. Entering a strange forest, where everything was unnaturally huge. Towering flowers and fungus. Both frightening and overwhelmingly beautiful. Then, emerging at the end through the canopy of trees into bright daylight. The last track, Sky Man, represents this I think. Like I say, it's a very loose narrative. I don't even feel like I wrote it myself - more that I channelled it from that strange ether out of which music comes.”

“Flora" is an astounding record. Electronic Sound Magazine reviewed the LP in issue 54, declaring that “Flora” '…is just as good as you would expect from this superb analogue synthesist. From the eerie grittiness of the title track to the bleepy, sombre wobbles of “Golden Mould”, “Flora” has a touch of science fiction enveloping it for a record "about flowers”. “Giants" could soundtrack the exploration of a distant, long abandoned alien planet, all ambient whines and echoing, stargazing synthesis…There’s a lot to enjoy here.'

More Polypores music is available at polypores.bandcamp.com

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released July 13, 2019

Written and produced by Stephen James Buckley- Summer 2018
Artwork by Nick Taylor: spectral-studio.co.uk
polypores.bandcamp.com

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British synthesist, Stephen James Buckley returns to Castle in Space for the release of a brand new Polypores record.
Azure is a beautiful new age symphony of blissed out water music. It’s his first full length LP since the release of last year’s “Flora”, which is also reissued in a stunning new two coloured ”Earthtones” edition. ... more

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