Green-House aboard the Ocean Institute’s whale watching boat (Photo by Sam Lee)
we’re so appreciative for this support! this gathering has reached capacity and we’ve announced a second album release gathering on march 29 at the geoponika greenhouse in glassell park.
It’s been three years since we last celebrated new music from Green-House and — just in time for spring — our beloved sloth fiends are back with their new record Hinterlands out on the vernal equinox with the great Ghostly International.
We’ve held some undeniably memorable moments with our dear buds Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan, from whale watching to a 100 year old movie palace to a mushroom church to a historic Japanese garden, but since the very beginning we’ve daydreamed about when we’d bring their dose of defiant, radically sincere environmental music into the sacred refuge of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
Well, we’ve arrived.
On Wednesday, March 18th the theater will serve as a host for all kinds of more-than-human life with the debut performance and listening of Hinterlands. Accompanied by live and improvisatory puppetry from our marionette neighbors, Green-House will guide us through a world of liberatory and utopian world building all their own.
Arrive early for tea, a pre-concert preview of Hooray LA!, and to be the first to bring home a copy of Hinterlands. Enormous love to Green-House for trusting us with their album release show, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater for always welcoming Living Earth with the most welcoming arms, to Ghostly for bringing this music and so many records that we love into the world, and to KCRW music for spinning selections from the record live on air and spreading the good word on what we’re up to all over LA.
50% of ticket sales go towards supporting our beloved Bob Baker Marionette Theater
As Green-House, musicians Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan engage human nature and the natural world through joyous, dynamic synthesis. Overlaying frequencies and expressions like camouflage, their deeply layered collaborative process begins with either artist; Ardizoni is often drawn to melody, Flanagan to harmonics. The power lies in how their ideas helix together, achieving a depth greater than the sum of its parts.
For their first LP with new label home, Ghostly International, Green-House grows and refines their vivid instrumental songcraft with uncharted, genre-defying freedom and movement, a more active, percussive, and emotion-filled energy, marked by flowing bodies of sound and sweeping vistas. Hinterlands tunes into the beauty of the world with defiant, radical sincerity.
Bob Baker Marionette Theater is an iconic Los Angeles institution that has served our communities with creativity, joy, and imagination since 1963. They are the longest continuous running puppet theater in the United State, a designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, and for more than 60 years have worked to preserve, educate, and innovate at the intersection of Puppetry and the Allied Arts.
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is home to more than 3,000 puppets, one of LA’s greatest archives of both puppet history and novelty music, and have played an essential role in entertainment culture outside of the theater having worked on everything from Mister Rogers Neighborhood to Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In addition to collaborating on occasional concerts together, Living Earth has been a production partner for Bob Baker Day at LA State Historic Park since 2024.