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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 [email protected] KCRW 310-450-5183 or [email protected]
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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