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Flotation Walls

We make music because we are infertile.

About Me

WE ARE MIXING A RECORD CALLED NATURE . We are looking for labels/booking/publicists. The tracks that are up are unifinished. We've recently been featured on MTV2's on the rise, MSNBC Music, and Punk77.
ATTN: BANDS If'n you would like us to listen to you instead of blindly adding or denying you based on your picture and band name, send a message and let us know you at least listened to a track.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/5/2004
Band Website: flotationwalls.com
Band Members: Carlos Avendano, Anna Wuerth, Zak Moses, Ryan Stolte-Sawa and Luke Brevoort.

Loads of other people have worked really hard on our forthcoming record.


Influences: Alphabetical: Air, Aphex Twin, Aprhodite's Child, Beatles, Bjork, Boards of Canada, Boys 2 Men, Caetano Veloso, Claude Debussy, Daft Punk, David Axelrod, David Bowie, Ennio Morricone, Flamenco Music, Francis Lai, Gal Costa, Giorgio Moroder, Goldfrapp, Harry Belafonte, Henry Mancini, Jeremy Enigk, Joyce, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Linda Perhacs, Love, Mamas and The Papas, Michael Jackson, Nobukazu Takemura, Os Mutantes, Pink Floyd, Plaid, Pram, Pulp, Queen, Radiohead, Scott Walker, Serge Gainsbourg, Simon and Garfunkel, Slow Ghost, Smashing Pumpkins, Squarepusher, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Stomp, Sunforest,The Boredoms, The Cardigans, The Free Design, The Kinks, The Wicker Man soundtrack, The first 2 Sunny Day Real Estate records, Tindersticks, Tom Ze, Various soundtracks from the 60's and 70's, Vashti Bunyan, Vienna Boys Choir, Yes, Zombies.
Sounds Like: A handsome stranger on crutches.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Studio Updates and other colored areas (Carlos)

We mixed Earthquake at a Country Club yesterday, and it's done with the exception of a few touch-ups. It may belong on a 7-inch. It's a very vulgar song with beautiful strings and insane drums. It's l...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:19:00 PST

In Defense of Pop Music (Carlos)

On occassion I feel the need to defend making pop music to my performance art or art-music friends. It's born of insecurity, but I have a decent argument and I never quite word it right, so here's an ...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:14:00 PST

FAQ

I got asked some questions for a Newsvine piece and they went with a feature format as opposed to Q and A, but they are questions we get asked quite a bit, so I thought I'd put a few answers up. Here ...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:40:00 PST

Flotation Walls on MTV2 (and on demand)

The on demand business is only available on Time Warner and only in Ohio on channel 1123 under MTV2 and Ohio Bands. They are little interview segments. Also I guess they play them on regular MTV2 but ...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

Mixing! Plus I wrote lyrics

We will start mixing on Saturday. That means that the thing is close to done. There'll be a few atmospherics added in little bits and pieces but we are in the mixing phase. For those of you who don't ...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:16:00 PST

Nature news et al.

So we have decided to try our hand at the usual send-off-demos-to-record-labels thing. We aren't soliciting major labels. I had an undesirable experience with a major label, as have some of my friends...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:10:00 PST

Uppens

There's one more vocal left to do on the record and then we start mixing, which is going to be it's own adventure as there are over 100 tracks on some songs.We are talking about putting out a 7 inch a...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:25:00 PST

black arts

if you go to www.flotationwalls.comthen look at the new radiohead disc art at http://inrainbowsart.blogspot.com/ you will see they are quite similar. Something I noticed a while ago. We (The Hot Wetne...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:37:00 PST

Studio Updates

So then, for those of you following the saga of the record, here's how things are going:We are done with principal tracking on almost everything. Mixing is right around the corner. We got the ever elu...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:20:00 PST

Are We Photogenic?

We do band photos tonight for one sheets etc., which I kind of loathe. Group photos in general usually aren't the best anyway. It's hard to not make them look local and boring and somehow visually rep...
Posted by Flotation Walls on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:33:00 PST