Sound project by creative instigator and provocateur Michèle Lamy, multi-disciplinary artist Nico Vascellari and Lamy’s daughter, the artist Scarlett Rouge
Lyrics consisting of the poetry of Etel Adnan
Produced by Rocco Rampino
Mastered by Greg Moore
Artwork by Scarlett Rouge
Recorded at Strongroom Studios, June 2018
180gram heavyweight vinyl with printed inner and outer sleeves
Drawing on the work of Lebanese-American poet, journalist and artist Etel Adnan, Garden Of Memory explores the tension between the organic and industrial, layering both Rouge and Lamy’s idiosyncratic delivery over Vascellari’s ambient and EBM-influenced electronics.
After Vascellari described the debut LP as “an evocation of Michèle Lamy sitting in a cave, surrounded by wild beasts ready to devour her”, Lamy says the new record has loftier concerns: “So far it seems like we are more in the cosmos... We are coming out of the hole!” Lamy continues: “I like poetry, I don't like when there is a sentence that tells you everything, I like suggestion.”
It was for this reason that Lamy was drawn to the 93-year-old Adnan – “a woman explaining what’s going on in life. We can say everything is political, this is especially important.”
It’s a sentiment that Scarlett Rouge echoes: “She wrote political poetry, and she is a journalist, so that's why I think when Michèle discovered her there was an immediate sense that this is now what needs to be felt and said.’
