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Winter Flowers

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Member Since: 6/12/2005
Band Website: winterflowers.info
Band Members: Christof Certik - guitars, vocals, mandolin, woodwinds;
Nick Sapiro - electrical bass; Astrid Quay - vocals;
Sasha Smith - glockenspiel, organ, piano, harpsichord, snare;
Gavin Toler - vocals, guitar;Aaron Sperske-Drums
Influences: Tir Na Nog, Gong, Led Zeppelin, Nico, Yes, Jefferson Airplane, Leonard Cohen, Pentangle, Donovan, Mamas & Pappas, Robbie Basho, Janis Joplin, Vashti Bunyan, Shirley Collins, Grateful Dead, Yoko Ono, Fairport Convention, Melanie, Joan Baez, Dead Moon, Tim Buckley, Buffy Saint Marie, King Crimson, Incredible String Band, Jimmy Webb, Deep Purple, Enya, Bach, Simon & Garfunkel, Rolling Stones, MoonDog, Vangelis, Fleetwood Mac, Lavender Diamond, Stone Poneys, Dead Meadow, Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, joanna newson, Carlos Castaneda, Alan Watts, Neil Young, Richard Brautigan, Casper David Friedrich, Bob Dylan, Grace Jones, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd............
Sounds Like: California Mystic Folk
Record Label: Attacknine(Darla)- Manimal Vinyl
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

We Love You Too, Becky!

Everyone knows that Becky Stark is magical. So when she blames you of being magical, you know, birds suddenly appear and and all that. Here is what she had to say about our song "Shine Your Little Lig...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:29:00 PST

Flomotions Interview

Here's an interview from the lovely Florence Achery of flomotions.com that we did a couple of months back:Light as butterflies, melodious and harmonious tunes trickling out of your stereo to fill the ...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:23:00 PST

What the Whaa?

 We came across this piece via the Manimal Vinyl myspace page. A young man using the nom de plume/guerre "Brandev" had written the following and posted a link to it on the Manimal (the label that...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:19:00 PST

The Uncut Michael Zeiss Interview

 This interview would go on to incite a little controversy (see above article):Any form of pigeonholing in Los Angeles doesn't stand up. If this city can be defined by anything, it's the word "ec...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:04:00 PST

Psychedelicfolk Homestead Pipes Up

Another review from days of yore:This is one of these few acid folk items that succeed to reveal themselves as if from the early '70's. Beautiful delicate male singing, melodic and playful layers of g...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 05:00:00 PST

Lefthip Magazine Review

Here's another from last Autumn or Winter:Swamped as the music scene is now by a glut of hippy-dippy shit following pathetically in the footsteps of the noble founders of the genre, by default one is ...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

...And Someone in Canada Hates Us

You can't please all the people all the time. This review from last Winter comes straight outta Canada. All I have to say is "Go Redwings!":The San Fran folk revivalists in the press are getting all "...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:55:00 PST

Someone in England Loves Us

Wow! We're still blushing from this review from last Autumn that we found on the wovenwheatwhispers website!:When Attack Nine Records got in touch so we could hear their latest folk album, we were int...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:52:00 PST

Album Review at Prefix Magazine

This review was written by John Zeiss last Autumn regarding our CD:The first smash-hit single known to man was "Sumer Is A-Cumin' In" all the way back in the twelfth century. If you found yourself swi...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:50:00 PST

W.F. In V Magazine

Here is an article from last Autumn in V magazine about us. The URL is at the end of the article.LIKE THE SPACED-OUT LOVE CHILD OF PETER, PAUL, AND MARY, CALIFORNIA BAND WINTER FLOWERS BRINGS THE MELL...
Posted by Winter Flowers on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:46:00 PST