{"id":4398,"date":"2015-10-29T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2015\/10\/29\/songs-we-love-auntie-flo-feat-poppy-ackroyd-richard-thair-for-mihaly\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:03:00","slug":"songs-we-love-auntie-flo-feat-poppy-ackroyd-richard-thair-for-mihaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/songs-we-love-auntie-flo-feat-poppy-ackroyd-richard-thair-for-mihaly\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs We Love: Auntie Flo Feat. Poppy Ackroyd & Richard Thair, 'For Mihaly'"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Piotr Orlov<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

\"Auntie<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/strong> 8:00<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Auntie Flo’s Esa (L) and Brian D’Souza (R), flanking the singer, Anubley. Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Auntie<\/div>\n
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Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“For Mihaly,” the final song on Auntie Flo<\/a>‘s second album Theory Of Flo<\/em>, is a wonderfully (and somewhat unexpectedly) plaintive last piece for a collection dominated by euphoric, globally minded dance music. With Poppy Ackroyd<\/a>‘s violin supplying the song’s melancholy central tenet, it’s like a Yiddish postscript to an excellent party: more than enough rhythm to keep the dance going (bonus beats c\/o former Red Snapper drummer Richard Thair), but also enough thoughtful reservation to make sure the party isn’t all hollow calories and forgotten escapades.<\/p>\n

Once out of Glasgow but increasingly London-based, Auntie Flo makes music that’s anything but calorie-free, with the steady objective of exploring the world’s cultures through the dance floor. Originally the solo musical outlet of Brian D’Souza, it’s now a duo (D’Souza and Cape Town-to-U.K. transplant Esa) with a long roster of supporting vocal and instrumentalist collaborators engaging a planet of rhythm under the flag of house music. Their own singles, as well as the Highlife World Series<\/a> the pair curates and engineers in various African countries, feature some of the funkiest and most ecstatic global grooves being released in the West.<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of ecstasy that’s also at the heart of the “theory of flow<\/a>,” which gives the album its name and was originally espoused by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi<\/a>, for whom this track is named. “Flow” is a state of mind, full immersion in the moment, the kind that most clubbers would recognize as familiar, being that the zenith of a dance-floor experience is a similar loss of self. And yet “For Mihaly” marries one of Csikszentmihalyi’s spoken-word recordings not to a raging hands-in-the-air beat, but to an ancient melody played on an instrument with a long history in social memory. Auntie Flo is clearly well aware that there’s more than one way to reach a peak.<\/p>\n

Theory Of Flow<\/em> is out Nov. 6 on Huntleys & Palmers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Auntie<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/strong> 8:00<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n

Auntie Flo’s Esa (L) and Brian D’Souza (R), flanking the singer, Anubley. Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

i<\/strong>toggle caption Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\"Auntie<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n

Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

“For Mihaly,” the final song on Auntie Flo<\/a>‘s second album Theory Of Flo<\/em>, is a wonderfully (and somewhat unexpectedly) plaintive last piece for a collection dominated by euphoric, globally minded dance music. With Poppy Ackroyd<\/a>‘s violin supplying the song’s melancholy central tenet, it’s like a Yiddish postscript to an excellent party: more than enough rhythm to keep the dance going (bonus beats c\/o former Red Snapper drummer Richard Thair), but also enough thoughtful reservation to make sure the party isn’t all hollow calories and forgotten escapades.<\/p>\n

Once out of Glasgow but increasingly London-based, Auntie Flo makes music that’s anything but calorie-free, with the steady objective of exploring the world’s cultures through the dance floor. Originally the solo musical outlet of Brian D’Souza, it’s now a duo (D’Souza and Cape Town-to-U.K. transplant Esa) with a long roster of supporting vocal and instrumentalist collaborators engaging a planet of rhythm under the flag of house music. Their own singles, as well as the Highlife World Series<\/a> the pair curates and engineers in various African countries, feature some of the funkiest and most ecstatic global grooves being released in the West.<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of ecstasy that’s also at the heart of the “theory of flow<\/a>,” which gives the album its name and was originally espoused by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi<\/a>, for whom this track is named. “Flow” is a state of mind, full immersion in the moment, the kind that most clubbers would recognize as familiar, being that the zenith of a dance-floor experience is a similar loss of self. And yet “For Mihaly” marries one of Csikszentmihalyi’s spoken-word recordings not to a raging hands-in-the-air beat, but to an ancient melody played on an instrument with a long history in social memory. Auntie Flo is clearly well aware that there’s more than one way to reach a peak.<\/p>\n

Theory Of Flow<\/em> is out Nov. 6 on Huntleys & Palmers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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