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Flotation Walls
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COLUMBUS, OHIO
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Member Since7/5/2004
Band Websiteflotationwalls.com
Band Members Carlos Avendaño, Ryan Stolte-Sawa, Zak Moses, and Luke Brevoort.

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SAY HI:
band@flotationwalls.com

BOOKING (Luke): booking@flotationwalls.com

PRESS (Ryan): stolte.sawa@gmail.com

PRESS KIT: sonicbids.com/flotationwalls

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PRESS:

"It’s a masterfully produced, lush, layered album; it’s dynamically varied, brilliantly arranged, and totally unique....Flotation Walls exhibit a musical seriousness that gives the album real heft. There are no throwaway tracks."

- The Limits of Science

"...unpretentious and accessible, and lots of fun even when it's breaking your heart....This disc will have you tapping your feet along to your own mortality - and that alone is worth the price of admission. Flotation Walls have produced a serious contender for 2009's indie album of the year."

- Newsvine

No. 1 Comfest Saturday Highlight: "Flotation Walls proved their masterful, orchestra-infused CD release show was no fluke by conjuring just as much splendor with the core four-person crew. The future looks bright yellow."

- Columbus Alive!

"Flotation Walls have enough of an anthemic, larger-than-life sound...Nature [is] an album that has the breathtaking beauty and operatic scope of a far more experienced band." "After an impressive decade of wonderful music, Carlos Avendaño and company have come into their own."

- The Other Paper

"A very special talent indeed....Avendano has obviously listened to a lot of British psychedelia of the, shall we say more whimsical nature, but he has brought that style bang up to date and firmly stamped his own unique identity on it."

- Punk 77.com

"The hope intrinsic to tragedy and the horror involved with dreaming. It's an album that celebrates the affinity of opposites and the beauty that comes with realizing that life is complex and full even in its simplest instants."

- New York Cool

"Apollo and the muses are crying: If Os Mutantes never recorded, if Scott Walker never put out I - IV, if Giorgio Moroder didn't buy a keyboard and the Boredoms never left Osaka at least we would still have this beautiful masterpiece of an album."

- Digstation

InfluencesWhile we listen to tons of music, big influences on NATURE include Ennio Morricone, Scott Walker, various folk music from around the world, French pop of the 60s, Aphex Twin/Boards of Canada etc. (in concept more than in sound), Os Mutantes and other tropicalia, Leonard Cohen, Debussy/Satie and other classical music. Some non-musical influences are the Visual artists such as Maurizio Catalan and Henry Darger, Prisoner (TV show), The Wicker Man (70s version), National Film Board of Canada shorts and early Disney.
Sounds LikeAngel Orgy
Type of LabelUnsigned


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Dec 4 2009 10:00P
CD101 For The Kids Benefit @ Circus Columbus, Ohio
Dec 11 2009 8:00P
Alma College Alma, Michigan
Dec 12 2009 8:00P
The Strutt Kalamazoo, Michigan
Dec 17 2009 9:00P
Mayday Cincinnati, Ohio
Dec 18 2009 8:00P
The Rudyard Kipling Louisville, Kentucky
Dec 19 2009 8:00P
Something fun somewhere with This Is My Suitcase, more... Columbus, Ohio
Jan 8 2010 8:00P
The Union Athens, Ohio
Jan 23 2010 8:00P
Garfield Artworks Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jan 29 2010 10:00P
Rachel’s Cafe Bloomington, Indiana
Jan 30 2010 9:00P
The Canopy Club w/ World’s First Flying Machine Urbana, Illinois

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   About Flotation Walls
Flotation Walls is an experimental pop group. We are always evolving and interested in creating new musical hybrids or new styles altogether. Currently we play choral/orchestral pop from our 2009 record NATURE. It was five years in the making and grew to involve over 25 players. It's got strings, horns, harp, slow motion dream choirs, animatronic worms, fuzzy 70's nature specials, angel orgies, and a whole bunch of other stuff that you thought about when you were an embryo.

We quit our jobs and we're touring full time, so if those things sound nice to you at all, please...

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Coming out to see us play? Download "Willis the Fireman" for FREE so you can sing along! (Wear yellow, too!)

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OPEN CALL FOR A 5TH WALL:

We've been playing as a four piece for a long while now and we're very happy doing so, but we all agree that a fifth member would be a nice addition (if nothing else just to give Ryan a break from playing 94,528 instruments all at once). So we're posting a standing open call for anyone interested. We're looking for someone who...

- wants to tour full time for a living.
- plays piano and can sing well.
- is female. (Just about all of our songs have second female vocal parts that we miss very dearly.)
- is interested in contributing creatively, having lots of fun and - you know - being an important part of the band and all that stuff.

We have a ridiculously good time together and are open-minded and friendly, creative people. Interested? Contact us!


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Voluntary Mother Earth

Voluntary Mother Earth



Oct 28 2009 5:20 AM

It was great to meet you guys in Jamestown!
We thoroughly enjoyed listening to your CD on the tour.

Keep on rocking and see you again!
-Aki
Miller

Amanda Miller



Oct 25 2009 11:10 PM

I miss you. Please come back to Dayton.
Eather Hay

Eather Hay



Oct 25 2009 11:10 PM

You should come and play in Cleveland!  PLEASE?
Erica

erica antsihin



Oct 8 2009 2:55 AM

ehh yea, i just deleted my facebook and only have a Myspace, because it says that i need a password that i dont remember anymore to delete it, so whatever, im still here! haha
but yea, when are you guys coming back to good OL' Michigan??
Jake

Jake Williams



Oct 7 2009 7:10 AM

Yea, it was good to see you guys, you were pretty fucking great
Wake Up Mordecai

Wake Up Mordecai



Sep 28 2009 1:50 AM

I heard you had a really fun show at the DDC last week.  Sorry I wasn't able to make it.
Zohn Grookshier Presents

John Brookshier



Sep 25 2009 4:43 PM

thanks for playing
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MidPoint Music Festival

MidPoint Music Festival



Sep 24 2009 2:37 AM

Glad you are playing MidPoint this year!
MC LUNCHBOXX

MC LUNCHBOXX



Sep 21 2009 6:33 PM

yo whats up :)

-mc lunchboxx
Melanoma

Melanoma



Sep 16 2009 11:47 PM

Come back again!
Zohn Grookshier Presents

John Brookshier



Sep 6 2009 7:19 AM


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Nanae Konno Photography

Nanae Konno



Sep 1 2009 6:47 AM

thanks for the add!
Captain Anna

Captain Anna



Aug 31 2009 6:36 AM

Nice tunes. You remind me a lot of Queen. That's a good thing
The Allen Array (Wins Club Wars!!!)

The Allen Array (Wins Club Wars!!!)



Aug 29 2009 1:13 AM

Sooo.. to keep the random facts of the day coming...Did you know?


The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.


Thought you might enjoy that!
lata
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Aug 28 2009 6:17 AM

Just grand
Carlo

carl parsons



Aug 27 2009 11:23 PM

Nature kicks ass. I've Seen Death and His Tremendous Pink Eyes is amazing.peace and safe travels.
emily

emily



Aug 25 2009 2:35 AM

HEY!!
I'm coming to the show in Pittsburgh tomorrow!  Can't wait to see yinz!
Os RadiophonicoS

Os RadiophonicoS



Aug 25 2009 2:34 AM

Thank you guys

 

Greetings From Brazil

 

Os Radiophonicos

Viva! & the Velvet Hearts!

Viva! & the Velvet Hearts!



Aug 18 2009 2:56 AM

Come
check out girls - girls - girls... featuring Le Femme Mystique from Cleveland,
OH, our host The Rev, AND post-show funk provided by DJ Moxy!



joshua alan (yosh)!

Joshua Groeschen



Aug 17 2009 11:05 PM

i sat on a skateboard  in xenia once and watched you guys play. it was quite excitin'
Wake Up Mordecai

Wake Up Mordecai



Aug 17 2009 9:20 PM

You were really fun.
THE RECEIVER

THE RECEIVER



Aug 15 2009 5:56 PM

You guys have always been great, but seriously, we were floored by your performance last night.  The road has done you guys well.  Keep rocking...it's only a matter of time before you BLOW UP.  Love you guys...peace!
Wake Up Mordecai

Wake Up Mordecai



Aug 14 2009 4:56 AM

Ha ha, thanks.  It was fun.  OH my goodness, I'm so excited for the show and I just can't hide it.
Slow Ghost

Slow Ghost



Aug 3 2009 6:44 PM

The Eagle To Squirrel Variety Hour

The Eagle To Squirrel Variety Hour



Aug 2 2009 8:50 PM

Great show last night! See you at Midpoint. We're playing Subway the night before you do.
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