Breathy Drops by Florecer

File Under: Balearic / Downtempo / Sunset / Bioluminescence

Here’s a song about Bioluminescence and love, from California duo Florecer. Label boss, Chris Coco, was taken the first time he heard it because of the off-kilter groove and the underwater feel and also because it sounded like the sort of mad record that José Padilla would play if he was still at the Cafe.

Florecer say: Breathy Drops was one of our first songs. We wrote and recorded it years ago (2018?) after a trip to Zihuatanejo, where we witnessed extraordinary bioluminescence in the Pacific Ocean. The electric teal glow traveling through the sea at night captured the magic of our new musical project and growing love. This song is about surrendering to something magnificently unknown. 

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Dr Rob (Ban Ban Ton Ton) says:

California-based couple Allie Schulz and Alex Pasternak, aka Florecer, have recently relocated to Alex’s childhood community of Half Moon Bay. Dividing their time between raising 2 babies on a beautiful beach and creating new music. Alex has never been a slouch as far as producing tunes is concerned – assuming the aliases Saidera, Highlines, Dr Bronzer, collaborating with Coyote, as well as the Florecer sides – and my understanding is that the pair are currently sitting on a stash of as yet unreleased stuff. The first glimpse we get of the sonic fruits of their move is a song called Breathy Drops, which has been picked up as a single by Chris Coco’s DSPPR.

Cutting its own rug, regardless of what others might think, this is pop, but oddball and all the better for it. Forgetting / foregoing formulaic templates, we’re back to that thing of “Balearic” by accident rather than by design. Sure there’s some Spanish guitar here (and damn fine it is too), but the puckered, gently perky, programmed percussion and fractured Fairlight-like vocals have more in common with the irresistible idiosyncrasies of Laura Groves and Bullion, or Laurie Anderson’s Excellent Birds, than anything built by numbers. Similar to ddwy, there’s also a strong William Orbit / Strange Cargo / Torch Song vibe, but this is still unique, and, sticking my neck out, I’d hazard the best thing that Allie and Alex have done to date.

Florecer began as a sonic experiment that Allie Schulz and Alex Pasternak would explore throughout frequent surf trips from their home in Los Angeles to Northern Baja, Mexico.

Composing from a small makeshift studio above the Pacific, the duo made a practice of creating ethereal soundscapes to complement their synthesis of surfing, yoga and meditation.