I'm glad I caught Florene's set at Good Records early Saturday evening, because the guys say that may have been the last live show for a couple of months.
The experimental Denton duo put out a MySpace bulletin this morning announcing that it's taking a short break from performing live to finish a full-length record.
Our plan is to go up to beautiful Ruidoso, New Mexico and submerge ourselves in music and the beautiful nature around us. After that's complete the tracks will be off to be mastered somewhere and then it shall be shopped around to see if anyone cares to release it (let's cross our fingers!).
Members Gavin Guthrie and Aaron Mollet shouldn't have too much trouble finding someone to help with the release. These guys and their friends in Mom are among the most innovative, forward thinking musicians in North Texas. But one would be wrong to assume that Florene's music is just like Mom's because both make ambient, mostly lyric-less soundscapes.
Yeah, the two duos use a slew of keyboards, live instruments, effects pedals and other gadgets to achieve their sounds, but that's where the similarities end. While Mom creates foundations with acoustic guitar lines and found-sound samples, Florene works from menacing electro beats, adding in fuzzed-out electric guitar parts and haunting vocal notes. If Mom is earthy, Florene is from space.
Not that the people who are interested in such music need a lesson from me on Florene's sound. There were plenty of folks standing in Good Records' aisles yesterday who knew just what to expect, and seemed to dig every minute of it.
The biggest challenge for Florene might have been keeping things visually interesting. That would explain why, halfway into a song, Mollet suddenly smeared white paint all over his face. But they needn't try too many things like that (cool as face-paintin' might be), because just watching them make the music is interesting enough. I'd sign up for a tutorial in a heartbeat.
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