Peter Quinnell (vocals, guitar, mellotron)
Brian Webster (guitar, keyboards)
Chris Shulda (bass)
Lori Black (tambourine, vocals, queen of the pink ponies)
......
8 August.08
Marmoset Meadow lp
(itunes & amazon)
15 November.06
I Am the Door e.p.
(digital download from Northern Star Records)
I Am the Door
Over the Garden Wall
Digging Flowers
15 September.06
Orange Balloons b/w Blown
(vinyl 45 + free CD on Microindie Records)
4 April .04
Chalk Dust Dream of the
Tea Cozy Mitten Company (microindie CD)
Influences
Syd Barrett & the Pink Floyd
The Fugs
Lennon & the Beatles
The Pretty Things
Scott Walker
Circus Devils
The Velvet Underground
Joy Division
early Genesis
Caravan
Nick Drake
Kevin Ayers
Daevid Allen
Hatfield and the North
Van Der Graaf Generator
McDonald & Giles
Giles, Giles & Fripp
early Golden Earring
Arthur Lee & Love
David Bowie
Roxy Music/Eno
Bob Dylan
Skip Spence/Moby Grape
Public Image Ltd.
Anthony Phillips
Soft Machine
Matching Mole
Guided By Voices
Laurie Partridge
Stu Sutcliffe
e.e. cummings
Sounds Like
songs held together by anti-gravity...dripping from the speakers like candle wax.
Recorded between 2005 and 2007, Marmoset Meadow is the second album by Los Angeles-based psych-rockers the Flower Machine. A concept album of sorts, the elliptical narrative begins by a cage in a zoo, reaches backwards and forwards through time and space, and concludes at a record store on Sunset Boulevard.
Awash in sound effects, retro recording techniques, and the band’s trademark over-use of the mellotron, Marmoset Meadow was produced by Peter Quinnell, co-produced and recorded by Brian Webster, and the cover is by Lori Black and Peter Quinnell. The instruments were played by Peter, Brian, and Chris Shulda, with Lori on tambourine and some guest musicians helping out here and there.
REQUEST The Flower Machine ON THE RADIO!
Indie 103.1 877-900-1031 or MTolkoff@entravision.com
KCRW 310-450-5183 or Nic.Harcourt@kcrw.org
you can buy Flower Machine releases in the US, UK/EU and Asia, and on iTunes by visiting http://www.theflowermachine.com (link just above the reel-to-reel)
you can also get the digital ep I Am the Door (and also Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company) online at Northern Star Records (click the I Am the Door blog above)
Led by Dutch/American singer, composer and guitarist Peter Quinnell, The Flower Machine were first heard on their 2004 debut album Chalk Dust Dream of the Tea Cozy Mitten Company (Microindie) which set the template for their pastoral, revisionist brand of psychedelic indiepop. Distribution deals in Australia (2005) and on Smallroom in Thailand (2006) helped expand the bands notoriety, in addition to radio play on taste-making stations such as WFMU in New Jersey, KXLU in Los Angeles, KZSC in Santa Cruz, and IS GOOD with Jon Hershfield. Further releases on Microindie (orange balloons b/w blown) and Northern Star Records (i am the door ep) are available.
Flower Machine recordings typically are made at a remote cottage 30 minutes outside of Los Angeles, where the band primarily utilize vintage amps and gear, mellotron strings and flutes, backwards tapes, and layers of sound effects.
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- neely