Ent Lang LATHE 7" The Garbage And The Flowers xpressway
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$ 37
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Feb 1, 2011
Sold Date
Jan 25, 2011
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Ent Lang [Garbage And The Flowers' Helen & Yuri]- Cold, A Harvest/Walking Into Bars LATHE CUT 7" (Hell On Records)
Lathe cut 7" from Ent Lang (The Garbage And The Flowers singer/violist Helen Johnstone and guitarist Yuri Frusin). This single was issued in the early 90's as a lathe cut edition of between 20 and 40 copies and is long long gone. It is great, as was virtually everything this contingent issued.This is a lovely record that extends The Garbage And The Flowers Velvet Underground crossed with Psyche-Folk/Freak Folk sound. It is an essential record from the NZ underground in my estimation.
Ent Lang appeared around the same time as Johnstone and Frusin's Dress and issue just one 7" and one 10" lathe before moving on. Johnstone and Frusin has been important figures in New Zealand's deep underground since the lathe 80's. With The Garbage And The Flowers they issued a 7" (Carousel/Catnip) on Twisted Village (Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar of Major Stars, Crystalized Movements, Magic Hour's label) and an LP (Eyes Rind as If Beggars) on The Now Sound, as well as compilation tracks on Alastair Galbraith's Runner collection.
After The Garbage And The Flowers splinterd, it's co-leaders formed Ent Lang and Dress as well as The New Zealand Guitar Orchestra with members of K-Group and The Surface Of The Earth.
Classic New Zealand dark pop/folk/rock of the ilk that made Xpressway Tapes so important (think Alastair Galbraith, Peter Jefferies, Plagal Grind, This Kind Of Punishment).
Skulltones said upon the release of their recent release from The Garbage And The Flowers: If any of you remember at all, you might remember the Garbage and the Flowers from a Twisted Village single dating back to 1992 (which can still be had for not much money); even less of you, by design, would recall their double album compendium Eyes Rind As If Beggars, issued in a blip in the mid-‘90s. Yet this loose collection of individuals, who’ve lived their days between New Zealand and Australia, have been playing and recording pretty much since then, their music mainly available from cassettes and lathe cuts. Two of the three original members, Helen Johnstone and Yuri Frusin, are still participants, while Paul Yates joins in on one of these two tracks, recorded in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Both sound in line with their earliest body of work, but one would hope that nearly twenty years of playing music together would bring about a sense of normalcy about them, almost a calming sensation to know that a few people would make this sort of music their lives’ work. “Alamo Rose” drifts along with natural ease, between hushed, reverent sunset acoustic bask and a folkier, Eastern-tinged chorus. It’s peaceful, shambling, and constructed with ever the slightest nod to a pop anthem – one that’s not going to get up off the porch swing anytime soon, but an anthem all the same. You hear it again in the rangier, electrified “River of Sem” – this one could pass for an earlier Cakekitchen track, bar the vocals, but its chords of hope and slow beat of redemption are of a piece with everything I’ve had the fortune to hear by the band. Normally I’d be bummed about a group of artists who haven’t bothered to change or update their sound, but I don’t think progression is in the cards here; this is their national sound, so to speak, telling of across-the-world beauty that most of us will never experience. My friend Angela is a native and feeds me the most bizarre and enticing stories about growing up there. I can only imagine that this was a shared experience, and the music I love from that land only enforces that ideal in my mind. 300 numbered copies. (Doug Mosurock)
How relaxed of a band are The Garbage & The Flowers? It's been over a decade since their last release, which means a Greatest Hits collection should be available by the time my grandchildren force me into a home. Both of the songs on this quaint single are filled with a hushed, unhurried atmosphere; this sounds like music made by people whose daily to-do list only consists of "walk the dog" or "water the flowers". "Alamo Rose" is particularly nice, with dual vocals and a slight acid-fried sensation amongst some cooling acoustic picking. "River of Sem" is not quite as soft but still sounds like a happier Brighter, caught jamming on a porch. I'm glad I got to hear these songs, as it’s almost as if The Garbage & The Flowers intended for them to be left out in the sand, slowly eroded by the surf. - Yellow Green Red
First vinyl release for this group in 12 years, now relocated from New Zealand to Australia. The Garbage & The Flowers were a key NZ underground outfit, coming out of Wellington in the early-90s and playing a fractured folk-punk take on post-Velvets rock. They may have split NZ over a decade ago but their sound is still damaged by that country’s no-fi underground, with a crude production style that pushes zoned vocals up to the front supported by Mo Tucker drums and ragged electric guitar. If you’re a fan of Alastair Galbraith/This Kind Of Punishment et al then this should be pretty irresistible. Hand-numbered edition of 300 copies with one track from 2004 and another from 2005. Recommended. - Volcanic Tongue
Stephen Clover from The Wellingtonista:
Coming out of Sonic Youth-drenched Wellington, NZ in the early nineties, The Garbage & the Flowers were always going to be an anomaly. Denounced as the fifty-thousandth band to sound like the The Velvet Underground, and even as a Christian band in the local street press, the five-piece nevertheless built up a solid gang of devotees, who claimed their sound to be “unique, fractured, and psychedelic” and ideal to take acid with and get stoned to. Championed by songwriter Alastair Galbraith, they released a critically acclaimed first single, Catnip/Carousel , and double album, Eyes Rind As If Beggars, both on US labels. The latter, with its “sun-burning” and lyrical improvisations found them a secure place in the noise-pop canon.
Former drummer Torben Tilly, now of Berlin based electronic duo Minit, described their sound thus:
In The Garbage & The Flowers (TGATF) there’s this crystalline structure of a song with its architecture of chords and idiomatic vocal melody. It’s something quite arcane and folkloric, owing a lot to Helen and Yuri Frusin’s song-writing and Helen Johnstones’ sapphirine voice. Being a part of this 5-pronged entity has been something I have really enjoyed and has definitely been influential on my approaches to making music. If all the musical parts work together in an almost mechanical kind of way to create a song it can be really satisfying. Sometimes however, through our own hazardous doing as a band, these songs would become unhinged and collapse into fractured shards of noise and disunion, leaning heavily like wine. This was especially the case when playing live, even if it was intentional or accidental. Part of its beauty was that almost at the same instant that it was falling apart it was beginning to fall back together again, creating a counterpoint of melancholy and joy. I quite like it when it is so chaotic and entangled. Somehow it feeds the imagination and the music takes on a life of its own, revealing secret patterns and ghosts in the recordings.
Based in Sydney since 1997, The Garbage and the Flowers, now a three-piece, are returning to their homeland with revered Melbourne band, Panel of Judges for a five date tour. They will be playing songs from recent albums Coronation and Stoned Rehearsal, and to celebrate their forthcoming NZ tour a limited edition split Panel/Garbage & the Flowers 7? will be pressed.
7" is MINT- (lathe discs always have some surface noise due to the way they're made, this sounds very clean)/Cover is MINT-.
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