{"id":2340,"date":"2013-10-23T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2013-10-23T20:53:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T00:53:05","slug":"lu-flur-floriology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2013\/10\/23\/lu-flur-floriology\/","title":{"rendered":"Lu Flur, Floriology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LuFlur\">Lu Flur<\/a> is Jude HarpStar (electro acoustic harp + backing vocals) and Zahn\u00c3\u00a9 (lead vocalist + acoustic guitar), and they are from Johannesburg, South Africa. They came together as a band on a rooftop in Melville, Johannesburg in the spring of 2012, and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/luflur.bandcamp.com\/\">Floriology<\/a><\/i>, released this past September, is their debut EP. <\/p>\n<p>Their goals include making beautiful and distinctive music and changing the way people think about the harp in contemporary music. I can only speak for myself, but: mission accomplished, ladies.<\/p>\n<p>There are five songs on the EP. They are all lovely; the two below are my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><i>Future Tides<\/i> is the first song on the EP, and it sets the tone. Zahn\u00c3\u00a9&#8217;s magnificent voice is front and center, reverberating through the delicate, shimmering castle of sound built by HarpStar.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/104220756\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<i>Transluscent<\/i> is the third song; it starts with an angry fuzzy riff that is the harp, not a guitar, which halfway through shifts and becomes like a soothing rain, and then at the end the angry fuzzy harp resurfaces, to duet with the soothing rain. 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