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An Evening of Ethereal Music with Eden, Dandelion Wine, Friends Of Alice Ivy and Plum Green

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Lovers of fine music, from darkwave to dream pop, are cordially invited to attend a soirée of enchanting, psychedelic and neo-medieval serenades from Melbourne’s foremost purveyors of ethereal wave – Eden, Dandelion Wine, and Friends of Alice Ivy.

After a seventeen year hiatus, Sean Bowley has returned to his troubadour craft; Eden will be performing a mix of new and old material, and are joined for the first time by bassist Matt Sigley (The Earthmen, The Mavis’s). Sean says of the new incarnation of Eden, “Our sound is as ethereal as ever and steadily becoming more ethereal. I don’t think that people who saw us back in the day will be disappointed. We are being true to our original sound and building upon it.”

Dandelion Wine will be revealing new songs from their album currently in production, and unveiling new addition of cellist Francesca Mountfort (Nervous Doll Dancing) to Australian audiences. Francesca will not only be drawing a bow legato! Nicholas enthuses, “Her playing really lends itself to Dandelion Wine and it will be great to have another female voice in the band. Naomi overdubs a lot of harmonies and counter-melodies when we record, and now we can start bringing them into the live show again.”

Friends of Alice Ivy, steered by Kylie and Amps (Ostia), will be joined by new guitarist Tyson Mansell (Resurrection Eve); this will be the Melbourne performance debut of their acclaimed 2014 release ‘The Golden Cage and Its Mirrored Maze’. Those familiar with Ostia can expect to be surprised, as Kylie explains. “Friends of Alice Ivy is a much more elegant proposition, but also a more interesting one. We now introduce aspects of psychedelia, folk, seventies progressive and neoclassical elements…so we have a much broader palette to work with.”

The bands will be joined by New Zealand songstress Plum Green, performing an opening set of her beguiling songs.

Nicholas from Dandelion Wine really speaks for all the musicians involved with these thoughts – “There hasn’t been a night like this in Melbourne for a long time. The combination of ethereal, medieval, psychedelic, electronic, acoustic, darkwave sounds is something that just doesn’t happen often here… one of the most appealing things for us, is that there is a tangible thread running between all of the bands, yet they are all very distinct stylistically. None of the bands could ever be mistaken for one of the others, but if you like one, chances are you’ll like the others. There’s a definite element of kindred spirits at play here.”

Join us in the delicate haze of winelight, by the fireplace at The Old Bar, for a lush, atmospheric show the like of which Melbourne has not seen for many moons.

  • October 2nd, 7pm
  • The Old Bar
  • 74 Johnston Street, Fitzroy
    Entry – $10 on the door

For more information visit the Show Page: An Evening of Ethereal Music with Eden, Dandelion Wine, Friends Of Alice Ivy and Plum Green.

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Mark Steiner & His Problems 2015 Tour

Gig > EDEN supporting MARK STEINER & HIS PROBLEMS, with HENRY HUGO

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EDEN are delighted to announce we will be performing a gig supporting Mark Steiner & His Problems, with Henry Hugo, at Tago Mago in Thornbury on Friday 16th January 2015. (Admission is $10.00.)

We are performing as a three piece for this show, and there will be a mix of new songs and some classic Eden. The set will be intimate and improvisatory, with two guitars and keyboard; this is a chance to hear some new songs in their formative stage, while “the ink is still wet”, and reminisce as we dust the cobwebs off some lost treasures from ‘Fire & Rain’.

EDEN will be performing around 9.30, but we encourage punters to come along at 8pm, to enjoy the introspective songs of Henry Hugo, grace us with your presence for our first gig with this line-up, and then kick back for a treat with brooding and transcendent covers and originals from Mark Steiner.

It will be a moody and authentic gig, a journey of light and shade, narrated by some great storyteller songwriters.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

MARK STEINER & HIS PROBLEMS

Mark Steiner, a New York-via-Oslo songwriter, is plying audiences with offerings from his new album ‘Saudade’ – melancholic, darkly humorous, lounge-noir rock. A solo artist who performs with a revolving troupe of “problems”, no performance is ever the same. He is joined on the stage on the 16th by Henry Hugo, Valentina Veil & Pange Niemoeller.

‘Saudade’ is a collection of originals by Mark Steiner, including a tribute to avant-garde filmmaker, Adolfas Mekas, and select covers of songs by Billie Holiday, Lou Reed, Bruno Adams (of The Fatal Shore and Once Upon a Time), Robert Burås (of Madrugada and My Midnight Creeps), and Rowland S. Howard (of The Birthday Party, Crime & the City Solution and These Immortal Souls).

EDEN

In 1989 Sean Bowley began performing as Eden with Pieter Bourke (who went on to work with Lisa Gerrard and David Thrussell). Eden’s early recordings included the Light Between Worlds EP (Nightshift Records, 1990), and first full album Gateway to the Mysteries (Third Mind, 1992). After favourable press response (notably from John Peel of the iconic BBC Peel Sessions), Eden signed a three album deal with American label Projekt Records; resulting in the release of the Healingbow EP (1993), Fire and Rain (1995), and Midnight Sun (1996).

Eden has been reincarnated as of 2013, and are currently performing as a three piece with Sean Bowley-Kramer joined by Andrew Kutzner on guitar, and the multi-talented Talie Helene on keyboard.

HENRY HUGO

Currently based in Zürich, Henry Hugo wears many hats including multi-instrumentist, composer, sound engineer, and producer. His music is described as ranging “from classical to punk joined by deep, melancholic and daily human experiences on his lyrics.” He has recorded with the Italian band LO.MO, a duet with the Italian singer Eco (Proteus 911), and composed music for films and theatre.

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