Garden, symphonic prog metal

It's record store day!

Aesthetic properties (plausibly) supervene on physical properties. This entails that if two worlds are exactly alike in all physical properties, then necessarily they are exactly alike in all aesthetic properties.

However, the converse is *not* entailed, that artefacts aesthetically alike are therefore alike physically.

So, download the existential prog epic Somewhere Else for absolutely nothing.

Its costlessness may preclude satisfaction of a desire you may have to feel like you have *earned* something by paying for it, a feeling which may ground the (dubious in the digital age) attachment to physical artefacts, qua physical artefacts, as a conduit for aesthetic experience.

http://garden.bandcamp.com/

"Somewhere Else" will be released this Saturday 21st September, we've released one of the songs as a single in the run-up, so have a listen and check out facebook and bandcamp for the full release this weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WpKJQBrGcc&feature=youtu.be

The last recording update is online, with a real mixture of violin, bass, piano, saxophone and some backing vocals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02pRFIJx1c&feature=youtu.be

Second update is online, featuring saxophone, clarinet and incoherent mumbling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8foF5xfUwc&feature=youtu.be

"considerably less metal-oriente"

Them's the bits I like! 

I'm fascinated by your stuff. Not sure it's precisely my 'bag', but that's no bad thing. (Some great performances, though!)

I'm guessing I'll grow to love it . . .

Haha yeah please don't use that photo! Great stuff though, the bio reads really well now, how shall I get a new image to you?

Cheers!

Cheers aapatsos

Yes, 2011's the most accurate, though even now we don't have a drummer and don't perform live!

Sure thing, let's see...

"Garden began in 2006 as a personal creative venture for composer & multi-instrumentalist Samuel Bradley, originally the goal being to play power metal with a slight progressive twist, along with the addition of violin in stead of synthesised orchestral sounds.
The difficulties of forming a band lasted some years, which would turn out for the best, as when Garden finally came to record their first demo in late 2011, followed by the debut EP a year later, the music was far more sophisticated than the original vision would indicate, having picked up influences from a variety of styles and disciplines through the years, as well as expanding the ensemble to include even more acoustic instruments alongside the standard rock lineup."

Well, not sure if that's any good. As you can tell there's not much to say. I've basically been writing songs in my bedroom until I was able to record them recently but if something's better than nothing then there you go!

That's what I was thinking, cheers!