- Summary: The two-disc release is the third album from composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and ambient artist Christian Fennesz.
- Record Label: Touch
- Genre(s): Electronic
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Feb 22, 2012Flumina is an arresting and beautiful work as deep and open as the body of water that graces its cover art.
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MojoFeb 23, 2012The overall mood is one of muted, minor-key sadness, Sakamoto's clear, simple piano lines eroded and blurred by the melancholy atmospherics of Fennesz. [Feb 2012, p.97
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UncutFeb 24, 2012It's quite beautiful, even if it feels a little pacific and lav-lamp-like in the long haul. [Feb 2012, p.84]
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Feb 22, 2012It seems designed to hover in the background, covering the sound of clinking glassware and forks tapping plates and blending smoothly with subdued conversation.
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Feb 22, 2012Sakamoto and Fennesz don't say how you should take their music, but its piano-forward sound aligns it with decades of delicate minor-key melodies that have accompanied countless images of rain on window pains and lonely pining lovers.
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Feb 22, 2012While something like 2007's Cendre benefited greatly from an occasional splash of his cotton-wool electronics, there are very few moments like that here, and frankly, it needs more.
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Feb 22, 2012Flumina does exactly what it's meant to. Which is not very much.
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