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FTO: the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra
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"Escapements overflows with so much charming ingenious that one can only be very proud to know that they come from the same place we live in. Filled with dreamy pop anthems, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra’s Escapements is delightfully eclectic as their name sounds. ....Hunter Costeau’s charismatic voice harmoniously fits right in with Kellie Noftle’s fluid silkiness. Strings, chimes, Camera Obscura-esque guitar riffs, and driving drums come together in enticing staccato rhythms and are then balanced with just enough delicateness to spell out a genuine pop feeling throughout the entire EP.Indie rock bands seem to form every other minute in LA, and now – finally – we have an original indie pop band that is hopefully ready to influence and lead others to give birth to more musical groups in this genre. Escapements, is a gem in the massive mass of rough edges of the LA music scene. So if you want to take it down a notch but still acquire access to credible musicianship, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra’s latest EP has landed just in time."
Seraphina - BeatCrave.com
"Sounding like a particularly West Coast version of Scottish popsters Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura, the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra takes those band's breathy pop and adds a little weight to it. Maintaining the Scots' prediliction for orchestral touches (listen to the pizzicato-plucked strings on the aptly titled "Strings" which also features a lovely Joe Meek-ish organ accent) and adding the occasional cinematic touch (the dramatic marching tempo and the haunting female hooting that pops up occasionally on "In A Dream"), the band is confident enough in its pop songwriting to never allow any of these exotic elements to pressure the music toward novelty. Like the best modern pop groups, the Flying Tourbillon Orchestra manages to recall many elements of the past fifty years of development without sounding like a direct copy of anyone else."
Patrick Newsom - LA Record
"It's the curse of every band whose name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue or fall within our limited vocabulary range. They end up having to explain it repeatedly to us dumbfounded audience members not geekepedia enough to have looked it up. And such is the burden of The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, whose flare for novel wordplay no doubt inspired the double meaning behind their cleverly-titled new EP Escapements. It's the perfect name for this leisurely-paced collection of chamber pop fantasia with songs that fit finely between anything in one's Elephant 6 or Arts & Crafts pantheon yet with a sobering lyrical sophistication for those Stuart Staples and Kurt Wagner enthusiasts as well."
Gerald - LA Underground
"Tous les morceaux sont grandioses, le nom Flying Tourbillon Orchestra leur va comme un gant. Les instruments tourbillonnent avec les tambourins en tornades, les rafales de cordes de guitares sur les cordes de violoncelles, les voix de Hunter et Kelli sont vrombissantes. Ils chantent tres bien mais en plus leur tonalités se rejoignent et se lient idéalement."
Marie-Agnès Hallé -kingem-
"FTO's sound is lush — the group sees open musical space as an opportunity to insert a guitar riff, organ fill, or percussive embellishment. Hunter Costeau's scratchy vocals blend beautifully with Kelli Kofke's soprano, giving the well crafted lyrics their due; the words to "In a Dream," a firsthand account of strangulation, might also fit comfortably in a death-metal ballad, but the band contrasts the violent tale with ringing chimes, operatic singing, and bright guitars."
Phil Kropoth - Flavorpill
"...a musical umbilicus of chiming keys, spidery, interlocked guitars, and the intertwined vocal reveries of Hunter Costeau’s croon and Kellie Kofke’s numinous voice cat’s-cradled the stylistic diversity into a cohesive whole. Beneath the bloodied tint of red house lights, the Orchestra wove together a string of songs simultaneously nostalgic and modern, the cobwebbed glint of rustic folk crossbred with the sheen of aughties indie."
Travis Woods -web in front-
"..they've gotten really goddamn good live... I couldn't stop smiling and I found myself looking forward to hearing them play tonight even before they were done with their set. And the EP? Also great."
Joe Feilder - Radio Free Silver Lake
"They're like a roving band of bards from a contemporary-set, neo-fantasy adventure story yet to be written."
Mouse -Classical Geek Theatre-