Flatland Prayer

Liva Dumpe voice

Antonio Moreno trumpet

River Adomeit bass and compositions

Flatland Prayer reimagines songwriting in a free-improv context. The trio pulls from a wide variety of influences, combining elements of American folk, avant-garde jazz, and contemporary Classical music. Though their influences are broad-reaching, Flatland Prayer has a cohesive sound, with all the clarity and tenderness of the musicians behind it. This is as much due to their unusual, stark instrumentation as River Adomeit’s songwriting, wherein each set has its own narrative flow reminiscent of a literary or theater performance.  

Flatland Prayer x Bjørk Semey

Like Staring Straight into the Sun

Like Staring Straight into the Sun is the metaphor that the album encapsulates: bold, confrontative, and ill-advised. Written by bassist River Adomeit in the summer of 2022, the album serves as an audio diary of a tumultuous period of River’s life. Together with Antonio Moreno on trumpet and Liva Dumpe on vocals, they freshly interpret this intimate collection of songs dealing with themes of fragility, religion, perfectionism, and identity. 

At their album release and subsequent tour, Flatland Prayer will perform the record in its entirety, featuring Bjørk Semey with corresponding visuals. An interdisciplinary artist coming from Scandinavia, Bjørk takes a musical approach to the world of visuals. Utilizing the subtle interplay of colors, textures, and moving animations, Bjørk meets Flatland Prayer in the middle as another member of the band - feeling the flow and ebb of their music, and highlighting - or obscuring- certain parts of the lyricism or music. Placing delicate animations on top of bold color loops, mingling abstracts with concretes, Bjørk seeks to orchestrate visuals that can mimic the rhythm of the music of Flatland Prayer- at times sparse, at times abundant.

Upcoming Performances:

May 2nd Splendor, Amsterdam (album release party)

May 10th New Grounds, Rotterdam [POSTPONED]

May 15th Donau, Berlin

May 30th Studio 150, Amsterdam

Read More About the Sets

  • Our first set and debut album; An intimate audio diary of the summer of 2022

  • Shakespeare meets Sgt. Pepper; A whimsical story detailing various characters’ walks home from party

  • Literary songwriting; A collection of love stories, carried by an unraveling description of a Greek amphora

  • First performed on January 6th; An Americana suite exploring far-right extremism

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