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Original Music Week continues with… the realization that I’ve never mentioned Infloresce Records here by name, damn. I’ve even posted about a couple of their releases before! Though not recently, I’ve been slacking on that somewhat. Anyway, Infloresce is a label founded by aivi with some friends in 2022 with a focus on the gentler side of digital fusion music—not toothless or bland, just gentle. At the end of 2024/start of 2025 they realized that the personal costs of the business and logistical support they were providing were more than they were comfortable bearing (running a label is hard!), so around the time Earthblade was released they refocused a bit to provide less direct publishing and production support, though they still do release albums under their umbrella and host events and so on.
flightbox is their first compilation album release since the reorg, apparently the first in a planned series of short albums where the composers are given a one-word prompt: the word here is obviously “flight.” Three of the pieces are fairly intimate, warm compositions, with two of those having chamber-y instrumentation and the other being a bit synthier with piano and guitar. “Take off!” by Tancla is a more action-y, rousing video game style flight theme with orchestra, piano, and drumkit. And then there’s “satellite” by miles morkri, which, well—their bio described their current musical writing as “a fusion of emo, prog, and showtune,” and I wasn’t really expecting their song to be that given the pieces that preceded it, but then it actually was. So it comes a bit out of left field, though it’s not like Infloresce made any stylistic promises with the album.
There wasn’t any track on this album that I super loved, but all of them did at least a couple of things that I enjoyed, some nice chords or mixes of acoustic and synth textures or what have you.
Recommended tracks:
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“unfurl the apricot clouds” (starling tan) was my favorite of the intimate tracks
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“satellite” (miles morkri) has a shmup-sounding pre-chorus I like at 1:02 and elsewhere
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