Lafleur Ylanoire
Lafleur Ylanoire are two young musicians from Heidelberg, Flora Bastian (Lafleur) and Nora-Marie Borrusch (Lanoire). They write, sing and play their own songs,
Draga Draga
Between the city of Trieste and the Slowenian border, there's a valley called the Rosandra Valley (because of the small river that formed it), above which there loom high rocks of a haunting beauty, especially at sunrise of a summer's morning...
Forever lost - 2008 Forever lost - 2008
Being in love is not so different at the age of 23 from how it was when I was aged 14... this song is 10 years old.
You give me wings You give me wings
Not a great recording... but better than the old ones, at least :# I know I'm a horrible piano player. I apologize. :)
Get out of my head Get out of my head
Although quite new, this song could just as well fit in the set of those I wrote 5-7 years ago... :D VORLÄUFIGE AUFNAHME!! A QUALITATIVELY BETTER RECORDING IS TO FOLLOW!
Herbsttraum Herbsttraum
A misty morning in autumn... the willows are swaying, the golden sun has just risen, leaves are falling, and a bird is sailing on the wind...
Lafleur Ylanoire are two young musicians from Heidelberg, Germany: Nora-Marie Borrusch and Flora Bastian. They write and play their songs themselves, sometimes accompanied by other musicians - that's why the name "Lafleur Ylanoire" actually stands not only for the two "basic" members, but for several different "sets" of musicians.Since 2001, Nora and Flora have shared their music and written and sung many songs together. In 2002, their band "Fever" had their first official concert on stage, and a promising future was to come (or so they thought) - but unfortunately, before their music made its way into the studio and onto CD, the band broke apart.
The girls then turned away from playing in bands and continued making music on their own, accompanied only by guitar and / or piano.
Recently (from October 2005 on) they have gone separate ways, living in different cities now, but not without sharing and enjoying their music once in a while.
In 2003, Flora started writing mainly campfire and scout songs and ballads, as she still does today, her main focus lying on what is said and how it suits starry summer evenings. :)
Nora's way led towards "more classical" arrangements, and in her recordings, classical instruments often play along with her great voice.
(According to Nora, Flora's songs have become more minor (in the musical sense!!!) than earlier, and her subjects have become more fantastic and gone off that dreamer's realistic road, whereas Nora's songs have become more and more influenced by the classical analysis vice versa, which does not only affect the instruments but the way of singing and writing as well.)
But still they share a common sense of aesthetics, and an interest in ballads, in fantasy and myths, and thus their songs can still be seen as belonging together, to one music group, in some sense.
Most of the songs are rather quiet and melancholic, telling stories about people that lived long ago, or people living now, or people that live only in our fantasy (especially Nora has a great skill in setting to music the songs and poems by J.R.R. Tolkien, while Flora even dared to work on a translation of a poem by Goethe!).Have you performed in front of an audience?Nora: Writing songs I'm basically influenced by Irish or Scottish Folk and program music (if you for example listen to Sailor's Grave). And, of course, our textual influences derive from fairy-tales and all sorts of fantastic worlds, and not the last of these I like to invent.Flora: Guitar, voices, and everything that we deem beautiful (and that we can get our hands on :) ) - flute, violoncello, piano, violin, wind, birds, drums, hands, teeth, ...!
Nora: All what she says, and birdies, especially birdies... :)