Artist description The Machine in the Garden is a gothic/darkwave duo featuring Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman. Since their formation, Roger and Summer have developed and advanced their unique style through years of collaborating and intertwining their musical tastes. Ever evolving and pushing the limits of the ethereal/darkwave genre, the Machine in the Garden strives to explore all aspects of electronic music while continuing to compose songs that endure.

Music Style gothic/ethereal/darkwave/electronic

Musical Influences Depeche Mode, Christian Death, Mephisto Walz, Siouxsie & the Banshees, David Bowie, Peter Murphy, Faith & the Muse, Enya, Tori Amos, Cranes, Dead Can Dance

Similar Artists Faith & the Muse, This Ascension, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Love is Colder than Death, Trance to the Sun, Dead Can Dance, Miranda Sex Garden, La Floa Maldita, Stoa, Claire Voyant, Mors Syphilitica

Artist History The Machine in the Garden is a gothic/darkwave duo featuring Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman. Since their formation, Roger and Summer have developed and advanced their unique style through years of collaborating and intertwining their musical tastes. The band?s first release was the 1994 Veils and Shadows EP. Initially a solo endeavor by Roger Fracé, the debut EP blended the dark elements of goth with new wave and industrial tinges. However, folded within the songs were melodies of a more classical nature. The band?s sound further evolved with the addition of musician Summer Bowman. Her enchanting voice lent an ethereal quality to the music on their first full length recording in 1997, Underworld. The dark electronics of the debut EP, which garnered acclaim from press and radio, were still there, but multi-layered with an atmospheric mood and style, giving the CD an original sound transcending pre-existing genres. Following a string of successful singles on various compilations, the band honed their sound to produce the ethereal One Winter?s Night?. Released in 1999, One Winter?s Night? draws listeners into its hypnotic spell, merging intricate musical structures with emotional lyrics. In its entirety, one is fixed in a soundscape of beauty where synths, guitar, piano and vocals from both Summer and Roger meld to form a darkwave album that excites as well as haunts the senses. The band continued working in the studio after the success of One Winter?s Night... to create their most recent release, a full-length enhanced multimedia CD, Out of the Mists. This CD takes listeners on a journey through the many facets of the band and explores classical, electronic, goth, and ethereal genres. In their creative exploration, the band made a video for the haunting and melodic song, ?The Unaware.? Out of the Mists is both visually and musically rich, a stunning tour de force encompassing the band?s emotional edge.

Group Members Roger Fracé - guitar, bass, programming, vocals Summer Bowman - vocals, programming, flute

Instruments Power Macintosh G4/400 w/ Digidesign Digi001, Opcode Studio Vision Pro, ProTools, E-mu E5000 Ultra, Korg DW8000turbo, Korg DSS-1, Alesis Nanobass, Alesis DM5, Roland Octapad, Digitech Studio S200, Lexicon MPX-100, Korg ToneWorks AX1500G, AKG C3000B, AKG D880, RNC1773, Tascam DA-20, Tascam M-1600, Gretsch, Washburn, Takamine, Fender & Harmony guitars and basses, Crate Stealth-50 amp, a Dusty Strings Hammered Dulcimer, and an Artley flute.

Albums Veils and Shadows EP (1994) Underworld (1997) One Winter's Night... (1999) Out of the Mists (2000) Asphodel (2002)

Press Reviews ?I always liked the Machine in the Garden, and I always thought they were good. I don?t know what happened between the last album and this one, but parts of One Winter?s Night are not merely good, they?re fucking brilliant. Their music has moved from gothic into gorgeous and danceable ethereal. With an impeccable grace they have successfully pulled off the most difficult task any band can strive to attain: all of their songs do not sound the same, yet they all sound fantastic. How many bands have you heard develop a sound, only to turn it into a formula, which they apply to every damn song they ever write? Not so with the Machine in the Garden. There is a true range in this music: slow and pensive, hard and danceable, melodic and enchanting, tender and soothing. The spectacle and grandeur is not so lofty that the music escapes you. Rather, it is just tangible enough (and surreal enough) to sound like the forgotten songs heard in a dream. If Edward Scissorhands had been a musical, this album would have been the soundtrack.??Eric Muss-Barnes, Outburn #10

Location Austin, Texas - USA

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