Yes, we’re big fans of regular indie came score composer Floex (Tomáš Dvořák). The Czech musician also does his own solo projects and this week we finally caught up with from September 2011.

It’s an impressive mix of ambiance and acoustic music with some elements of classical. But a very definite nudge of electronic music throughout—classic Floex stuff, in other words. As you’d expect with the guy, some of the pieces are quite brilliant and features up there with his best work.

Lots of Genres, Lots of Great Moments, Lots of Zorya

Floex’s work has this habit of starting of slow, setting down a rhythmic and melodic foundation, and just building on that hypnotically. A bit like ’70s Krautrock band CAN across epic songs like Halleluwah.

That’s personified above in Cassanova.

There are 11 tracks here and if you’ve heard Floex’s music before, this is very much down the same line. But he has just continued enhancing his game—five years after Zorya he landed the incredible Samorost 3 soundtrack. That thing really is something else.

Each one has a music video to go with it, some of them pretty damn ambitious. Like with this string quartet type number Veronika’s Dream.

One of the things we love about Floex’s music is that merger of old with new. He’s quite happy to mix in a full orchestra, yet ramp up the electronic dub noises and other bizarre goings on.

Some of the noises and he sounds he creates we’ve no idea what they are, really, but they always slot neatly into that ambiance for a fantabulous time of it.

The composer’s favourite instrument is the clarinet, so there’s no surprise there’s lashings of that going on here. Especially in one of Zorya’s best tracks—Mecholup.

If we were being critical we’d say there, perhaps, isn’t a huge amount of variation across the album. The tracks do sort of merge together into an evolving whole. We guess that was the point.

But this was 2011 Floex, 13 years ago, still early into his recording career.

He continues to advance his work to new heights, is constantly working (again with Amanita Design and Petums on several upcoming games), and he goes from strength to strength.

But Zorya is a great album. It’s all there on YouTube for free if you want to listen to it.

We’re always tempted to go into Cantankerous Old Man Mode whenever we hear chart music. But it’d be incredibly lazy to think there’s no good music being made these days.

There are some fantastically talented modern musicians. Important to remember, even if Floex will forever be hidden behind the desperate attention seeking chart topping acts—it be the way of the world.