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Floraphon

alias El Flo der mit den Froschkrähenmäusen redet

About Me

The beautifullFest moments in life are, when you just can sit or if you like to stand, to couch and jumb or whatever you feel in the moment, you only hear, feel and play. You just have to move, hear and play, ... a bit more and a bit less :jiyeis n'est pas?
What am I talkin'? When I was a child I had rhythm education and started with tabour. Later I began to play guitar. Then I heard Flea from the Red Hots, playin' Bass and I thought: "That's what I wanna do, too." So I started playing bass and practised until I could play many of Flea's basslines. During this time I played bass in two Funk- and Jazzbands.
After the second band broke, i sang more than before and I came back to the guitar. In my last band I was singer and guitarist. We were a quintet (bass, drum, two guitars and keys). About two years, I'm on my way alone and the others are playing along without me, named Sad Wombat. Well, we're still friends and maybe we'll play together again someday.
Primary I'm guitarist, but I've got also experiences as bassist and singer and I also play a little keys an'drums and not that bad. My roots are Rock, Funk and Blues. 2005 was the first year, I also tried out some electronic things. Now the difficulty is, to bring those different trends, to the same bar.
My new album's finished since the ending of 2006. Everything on it, is handmade by myself. Music, Booklet and Inlay. In my daily life, I'm graphic Designer and I'm working also as volunteer at basels only independent radiostation called radio x.
I got also many songs which i've not recorded. Songs I'm about to record for the next Album. I'm really open to many directions of music and music is my life, 'cause I'm music.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2006
Band Website: 6degrees.ch/floraphon
Band Members: by oneself ... currently
Influences: These aren't directly my influences, but these are the Artists and Bands I love pretty much :) Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Ben Harper, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Queen, Muse, Radiohead, Kula Shaker, Masala Dosa, Keziah Jones, Patent Ochsner, Archive, Xavier Rudd, Dire Straits, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Lucky Peterson, B.B. King, Air, Massive Attack, Faithless, The White Stripes, Eels, Jack Johnson, The Dandy Warhols, Susheela Raman, Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani, Marcus Miller, Vivaldi, Mozart, Love, John Debney, Genesis, Depeche Mode, Portishead, Ines de l'Âme, Händel, Carl Orff, Tracy Chapman, REM, Jewel, Lisa Ekdahl, Björk, Gotan Projekt, Bauchklang, Ani di Franco, Eagle Eye Cherry, Neneh Cherry, Tocotronic, Neville Brothers, Ärzte-Hosen, Die Fantastischen Vier, Mich Gerber, Mother Love Bone, Paul Machlis, The Cranberries, Herbert Grönemeyer, Natalie Merchant, The Darkness, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Skunk Anansie, Mad Season, Keith Jarrett, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, The Vines, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Prodigy, Bush, Metallica, Oasis, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, Talvin Singh, Marilyn Manson, Tiger Lillies, Kruder Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation, Ninja Tune DJs, Badmarsh & Shri, Mindelight, Morcheeba, Chemical Brothers, Peace Orchestra, Daft Punk, Sneaker Pimps, Xavier Naidoo, Jaques Loussier Trio, Seed ... Sad Wombat, Pavlov & Floraphon ... et al.

Please don't give to much about the order :P
Sounds Like: El Flo con sus compañeros. Flo is going to take a shower now, so I can do it afterwards. Flo is I, I mean me and my sound, sounds like Floraphon, Floori is Flora and Phon is Fon. Flowbeat. I love playing many different directions of music. My current album is just a little field of the music I make. I primarly made rock, funk and blues, but in 2005 I discovered the world of electronic music and now I'm caught between guitar sounds and electronic stuff. My current recipe: take a rock, a glass of funk, a dash of blues and a pinch psychodelic. Mix it with a big spoon of electro, lean back and enjoy it ... There are more sounds on the Album Floskle(e) and there are more sounds i'd like to try out. But after all, ROCK IS STILL TRUE.
Record Label: GOT NO CONTRACT currently
Type of Label: None

My Blog

MY MUSIC

I know, my music sounds sometimes a little like, cheap cutted samplebullshit ... but it's not. I play everything, exept the drums, on my own. I sometimes draw little parts, 'cause I'm not a pianist an...
Posted by Floraphon on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:03:00 PST

SOMEWHERE THERE

It's a song I can't hear and stand anymore, but I still like to listen it sometimes. Hope you may like it :) I don't like sobstuff mainstream, but I like ballads, even if maybe my song's somekind a te...
Posted by Floraphon on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:35:00 PST

Time

It's a long time ago, since I've written the last entry. I'm workin as Volunteer for Basels Radio X now. Together with four girls and "Lächle Mama", we are making a show about the music scene of the r...
Posted by Floraphon on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:38:00 PST

Some bored emotions

I'm just sitting around now, ... smoking a beer and drinkin' a cigarette, ... and everything's just to boring. I began to write a little story, when I was in at work. I got a workflowsoftware in the c...
Posted by Floraphon on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:54:00 PST

New Song

Well, well, ... I've posed the new song, ... at the moment it has 0 plays, but I hope it's gonna change :)Peace
Posted by Floraphon on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:36:00 PST

I'm so in Love

Today was a beautiful day :) even when the recordsession was a little bit exhausting in the beginning, but in the end I just can tell you: I'm so highly in love, ... in love with music. I was working ...
Posted by Floraphon on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:53:00 PST

DAMNED RECORDS

Since a few days, I'm working on the record of song, which I've got stocked since four years. It's a really beautiful, melancholic ballad ... but meanwhile I just fuckin' hate that song. I really like...
Posted by Floraphon on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 04:31:00 PST

IMPORTANT TO KNOW!!!

I tell you ... buy never asian food at a turkish take away. Nothing against asian food or turkish take aways, but ... WHEN YOU'RE AT A TURKISH TAKE AWAY, you should take a KEBAB or what ever, not asia...
Posted by Floraphon on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:30:00 PST

Burning guitars :)))

I believe in a better way :) Ben Harper...
Posted by Floraphon on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:10:00 PST

Joseph B....

Ha dänkt es muess jo nid immer alles Änglisch si und evtl. gits jo au dr eint oder ander Schwizer wo luscht het öbbis uff Mundart z'läse, ... all zu viel schlaus chunnt zwar glaub drbi grad nid use, a...
Posted by Floraphon on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:43:00 PST