Green-House aboard the Ocean Institute’s whale watching boat (Photo by Sam Lee)
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 what if we simply paired Green-House with their namesake… in a greenhouse.
On Sunday, March 29th we’ll meet in Glassell Park and wander through a labyrinth of rare and exotic cacti to meet Greenhouse in the offices of our friends at Nonhuman Teachers. We’re pushing their desks to the side, bringing in a projector, and inviting their hybrid work and grow house to serve as even more of a host for all kinds of life with a performance of Green-House’s new album. Accompanied by visuals made by Michael Flanagan and the office axolotl, Green-House will guide us through a world of liberatory and utopian world building all their own.
Arrive early for tea, careful exploration, and maybe even the purchase of a cactus along with your record. Enormous love to Green-House for trusting us with these album release shows - our concert on the 18th with the Bob Baker Marionette Theater is fully at capacity and we’re all very appreciative to Nonhuman Teachers for welcoming us into their home and In Sheep’s Clothing for their assist in making sure that the good word is heard far and wide.
Doors at 8
Green-House at 8:30
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.
Named after an ancient Byzantine Greek manual of botanical wisdom, GEOPONIKA embodies Nonhuman Teachers’ core philosophy: to make gardens that are not just inert backdrops in our lives, but important characters in our story.
Tucked away in a converted truck-loading bay in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park, Geoponika is an experimental greenhouse and landscape design studio founded by the duo behind the pioneering plant collective Cactus Store.
Spanning 2,000 square feet, the space, affectionately referred to as a “plant orphanage”, houses an extraordinary collection of more than 10,000 plants. Over the past 15 years, Morera and Martin have inherited collections from aging growers and institutions undergoing generational change, dedicating themselves to preserving and cultivating these specimens. The collection functions as a living archive that represents an ongoing commitment to botanical preservation and education.
The greenhouse itself is a testament to urban transformation, showing how a former industrial site can be repurposed into a thriving ecological enclave. At first glance, the collection seems wild and unstructured with a breathtaking abundance of plants stacked in a dense, organic tapestry.