Clogs ~ The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

Released on March 1, 2010
HWY-021
CD, Digital


Purchase Album

Buy on iTunes Buy on Amazon Buy on Spotify Buy on Bandcamp

Featured Collaborators

Bryce Dessner

Bryce Dessner

Bryce Dessner

Padma Newsome

Padma Newsome

Padma Newsome

Shara Nova (nee Worden)

Shara Nova (nee Worden)

Shara Nova (nee Worden)


Songs

  1. Cocodrillo (feat. Shara Worden)
  2. I Used to Do
  3. On the Edge (feat. Shara Worden)
  4. Red Seas
  5. The Owl of Love (feat. Shara Worden)
  6. Adages of Cleansing (feat. Shara Worden)
  7. Last Song (feat. Matt Berninger)
  8. To Hugo
  9. Raise the Flag (feat. Shara Worden)
  10. We Were Here (feat. Sufjan Stevens and Shara Worden)

Notes



"When trying to describe Clogs' music to other folks, it might be better to forgo any genre distinctions and head straight for the thesaurus so you can find fresh and exciting ways to say 'sublime.'"
-Pitchfork.com

"[There is] no question that the classical and indie realms can share a border where music turns pensive, knotty, and otherworldly."
-New York Times

The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton is Clogs' highly anticipated fifth album. It's a song-cycle composed by Padma Newsome for Clogs with extensive vocal work from Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. Other guests include Sufjan Stevens, Aaron Dessner and Matt Berninger of The National, and the Osso String Quartet.

Following Clogs' critically-acclaimed Lantern (2006), The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton is their first album of songs after four primarily instrumental releases. The work was composed by member Padma Newsome during a 2005 residency at Giardini La Mortella sponsored by the Fromm Foundation. The Garden is a rich botanical paradise created by Lady Walton (the widow of the late British composer Sir William Walton) on the island of Ischia in Italy's Bay of Naples. The album was recorded in stages in Brooklyn and Sydney during 2007-08 with another year and a half for mixing and finishing. It embodies some of the fortunate vagaries of creating music with four people in three cities on two continents, not to mention the cadre of additional musicians who brought their own presence of character to the project.

Clogs are four musicians from the United States and Australia whose work traverses time and place and through which seemingly disparate influences are seamlessly drawn in. They compose and improvise using sounds and textures from across the musical spectrum - the immediacy of folk and rock music, twisted Americana, the complexity of modern composition.

CREDITS
Banjo – Sufjan Stevens
Bassoon – Rachael Elliott
Cello – Ha-yang Kim
Clarinet – Sue Newsome
Guitar [Baroque Guitar], Theorbo – Luca Tarantino
Guitar, Bass Guitar – Aaron Dessner
Guitar, Mandola, Ukulele – Bryce Dessner
Horns – Michael Atkinson
Percussion – Thomas Kozumplik
Strings – Osso
Trumpet – Kyle Resnick
Viol [Viola Da Gambas] – Irena and Vojtech Havel*
Violin, Viola, Mandola, Celesta [Celeste], Voice – Padma Newsome

Music & Lyrics – Padma Newsome
Recorded By – Joel Hamburger, Oliver Straus, Tony David Cray


Mastered By – Joe Lambert
Mixing – Nick Lloyd, Tony David Cray


Cover – Hvass&Hannibal