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Pressed on transparent purple vinyl in a reverse board sleeve

Includes unlimited streaming of Night Blooming Flowers via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ELECTRONIC SOUND TOP 100 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
December 2024 Issue 120

AS FEATURED IN THE FORTEAN TIMES
"Stunning new album.. Combining groovy vintage horror trappings with evocative electronica, the album is a descent into fairy folklore."

"Take it on a night walk to your nearest graveyard and surrender to the uncanny"
Claire Biddles (The Wire)

"I've got this and it's terrific. One for old school Ghost Box fans"
Bob Fischer (The Haunted Generation / Electronic Sound)
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'Night Blooming Flowers' tells the curious tale of a botanist in search of a rare and precious flower, said only to bloom during the hours of darkness. Although a diligent and learned practitioner of science, the botanist is nevertheless unfamiliar with local lore. This proves to be their downfall.

An inadvertent misstep into the bounds of a fairy ring, triggers a series of encounters with all manner of strange and magical sights, as the path gradually leads deeper into the darkling woods.

In the closing piece, day breaks and relief sets in, only for our hapless protagonist to find themselves rendered invisible to the everyday world, trapped 'betwixt between', consigned to a parallel dimension of supernatural enchantment.
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Originally a tantalising transatlantic postal collaboration between hauntological mischief-maker Drew Mulholland, and American baroque psych/horror savant Timmi Meskers (Garden Gate), 'Night Blooming Flowers' brews up a series of iterative compositions where each artist would share a foundation and the other would expand or edit, folding back and forth, accruing and removing layers until a shared sense of completion was reached.

Reflecting on the creative process, Timmi recalls:

"I had recently re-read Emma Wilby's amazing 'Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits', and certain themes seemed reflected in the pieces; we decided to infuse the track titles with elements of early modem British witchcraft and magic as the works ranged from the playful to the genuinely chilling.

A series of covers were designed which reflected the various tones and moods of the works, and the piece that we landed on was an homage to Danbury Press's "The Supernatural" series, a formative collection of books for both of us. We were both heavily influenced by the paranormal and witchcraft books of the 1960s and '70s occult revival, and the track titles and design reflect these sensibilities accordingly".
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Garden Gate:

Drawing inspiration in equal parts from the tarot and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Garden Gate’s fresh take on haunted psychedelia draws the velvet curtains closed and lights the candelabra atop the harpsichord. Through collaborations with several diverse labels and works blending pop, electronic, and modern classical, Garden Gate continues to explore concept and genre through sinister synth and fractured flute.

Drew Mulholland:

With seminal work as cult band Mount Vernon Arts Lab; a lecturer/composer in residence at Glasgow University; and a prolific producer of experimental, counter-cultural soundtracks; Drew Mulholland is widely acclaimed for his creative and academic contribution to the nebulous fields of hauntology and psychogeography.

IG: @overgrown.church

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subexotic
clay pipe music
genki xperience
library of the occult
sunstone UK
golden brown
good behavior