Like the savvy gardener times their tasks with where the moon is at, we wrote the beginnings of songs like we were tilling the soil ~ according to our creative ebb and flow. Then, as you would sweeten the soil with lime, we sweeten the chords with melodies As the seedlings grow up, so to the songs evolve.
Some like to let their tomatoes grow untamed, others like to prune the excess growth. Certain songs receive more care like sweet peas being woven up a trellis and fed and mulched - others are let to run rampant; a widespread pumpkin vine, self mulching and abundantly productive - like a long Larry Levan groove.
Babe Rainbows latest garden starts with Inner Space. It’s about the all of a sudden growth, in whichever the context you care to put it in. The zucchini of this garden
Smash the machine refers to the techno centric conundrum of our time that can cast a spell upon us. The antagonist to nature’s way in the garden.
The glory vegetable in a garden is the pumpkin and so All The Power is the pumpkin of this garden. The bands Masanobu Fukuoka, Jono Ma of Jagwar Ma brought some cosmic compost and the microbes for this one and Inner Space.
Naxos is about the days getting longer, every star a different colour. This is the mulberry tree in the garden. It feeds the chickens in spring, shades them in summer and warms them in winter when the leaves have fallen. The game of life and their blue mountain future.
+ Support
