Green-House is a project birthed by Olive Ardizoni and now officially a duo project featuring long-time collaborator and confidant, Michael Flanagan. Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. They hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.

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Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni. Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.Their first release as Green-House, “Six songs for Invisible Gardens” (out Jan 15, 2020) was written with the intention of transforming the listening environment and augmenting domestic space. The music is designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them.

Peperomia Seedling

Olive Ardizoni&#39;s Green-House follows suite in fashion flow of their recent LP Six Songs for Invisible Gardens with the loose track &quot;Chysis&quot;, named after a genus of orchid.Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.Their first release as Green-House, “Six songs for Invisible Gardens” (out now) was written with the intention of transforming the listening environment and augmenting domestic space. The music is designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them. cover design: Michael Flanagan

Chysis

- Leaving Records presents Music For Living Spaces, the debut LP by non-binary Los Angeles-based artist Green-House. Olive Ardizoni helms the project, which made its debut with the charming 2019 EP Six Songs for Invisible Gardens. Music for Living Spaces represents an evolution of its predecessor’s minimalist compositions into songs that move with winsome melodies and emotional arcs. Though recorded during a pandemic, the transporting nature of Music For Livings Spaces offers a remedy for dreariness. Ardizoni states, “I’m trying to hit that part of the brain that’s affected by the emotional state that you’re in when you perceive something as cute.” - Music For Living Spaces&#39; first single “Sunflower Dance” sports a breezy, bucolic vibe. The track is intended to invoke the whimsical image of hamsters happily dancing in a field. Ardizoni brings an intentionality to these playful atmospheres. They state, “In our culture, we prioritize profound artistic expression through emotions like sadness or aggression, but cuteness, silliness or fun, are the things that we trivialize in our culture. We say that they’re childish and it gets invalidated.” The complex and radiant productions on Music for Living Spaces counter this view. Ardizoni continues, “Cuteness and joy are gateways to compassion. It’s the gateway to empathy and activating the network in your brain that boosts moral concern for other people in the world around you.” Despite its general sunniness, Music For Living Spaces does not solely rely on exuberant, colorful moods. “Royal Fern” is a sophisticated composition of voices calling and responding to each other in rippling waves, while towards the closing of the album we hear Ardizoni’s ethereal voice for the first time that carries a nuanced, contemplative aura that defies categorization. - Music For Living Spaces is a step forward for Green-House. Ardizoni states, “The intention of this project is to facilitate the connection between humans and nature. Instead of perceiving nature as something that&#39;s separate from us, or outside of our homes, we can recognize nature as something that is within us and in everything we do in our daily lives. You don&#39;t need to have access to the great outdoors to feel connected to the environment.” - all music Olive Ardizoni - art &amp; design Michael Flanagan - mastered by Matthew &quot;Matthewdavid&quot; McQueen

- *limited edition of 100
- *clear vinyl base with magenta/orange splatter mix
- *jacket printed on uncoated/reverse stock
- *spring green inner-sleeves
- *art and design by Michael Flanagan

WILDFLOWER SPLATTER VINYL

- black vinyl
- jacket printed on uncoated/reverse stock
- spring green inner-sleeves
- art and design by Michael Flanagan

VINYL

- *OCard sleeve over noreclo case & JCard within case printed on uncoated/rough stock
- *grey shells w/green ink printed on white labels
- *professionally and locally duplicated in sunny Southern California
- *art and design by Michael Flanagan

CASSETTE

Music for Living Spaces

Top Soil

Nocturnal Bloom

Sunflower Dance

Bird of Paradise

Soft Coral

Royal Fern

Rain

Find Home

Middlemist

- *limited edition of 100 - *clear vinyl base with magenta/orange splatter mix - *jacket printed on uncoated/reverse stock - *spring green inner-sleeves - *art and design by Michael Flanagan

- black vinyl - jacket printed on uncoated/reverse stock - spring green inner-sleeves - art and design by Michael Flanagan

- *OCard sleeve over noreclo case &amp; JCard within case printed on uncoated/rough stock - *grey shells w/green ink printed on white labels - *professionally and locally duplicated in sunny Southern California - *art and design by Michael Flanagan

- Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni.- Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they hope to create a space with fewer barriers as both a performer and a listener.- Their first release as Green-House, “Six songs for Invisible Gardens” (out Jan 15, 2020) was written with the intention of transforming the listening environment and augmenting domestic space. The music is designed as a communication with both plant life and the people who care for them.

- *black vinyl
- *uncoated jacket
- *white poly-lined inner sleeves
- *secret smiley sloth face on b-side center label
- *art and design by Michael Flanagan

- cassettes housed in wild flower-seeded OCard sleeves
- (you may plant your tape sleeve and grow wild flowers)
- EP plays in-full on both sides

WILDFLOWER CASSETTE

Six Songs for Invisible Gardens

Sansevieria

Parlor Palm

Perennial Bloom

Soft Meadow

Xylem

- *black vinyl - *uncoated jacket - *white poly-lined inner sleeves - *secret smiley sloth face on b-side center label - *art and design by Michael Flanagan

- cassettes housed in wild flower-seeded OCard sleeves - (you may plant your tape sleeve and grow wild flowers) - EP plays in-full on both sides

Green-House's latest EP is a collection of unheard &#x26; rare recordings from 2021 &#x26; 2022. Imaginary department stores, Wendy Carlos-infused virtual classical, soundscape slices and bonus tracks are all situated radiantly along the spectrum of Solar Editions.
All Songs Written &#x26; Performed by Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan
Mastering by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

****- cassette now shipping**
**- digital download included, emailed in-full on release day (probably earlier)****

- edition of 350
- artwork & design by Michael Flanagan

cassette

Solar Editions

Mycorrhizae Dreams

Morning Glory Waltz

Produce Aisle

Flora Urbana Absumpto

- cassette now shipping
- digital download included, emailed in-full on release day (probably earlier)
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<li>edition of 350</li>
<li>artwork &#x26; design by Michael Flanagan</li>
</ul>

In an era of rampant, man-made climate chaos, “solastalgia” (the longing and distress experienced by individuals as a response to environmental change/degradation) has emerged as a useful, semi-viral concept — a catch-all term for the pervasive sense that the world as we know it is far from well, and only growing less so. But, for many of us, a problem, a trap, an ineffable hollowness, exists at the very crux of this concept/premise: how can we mourn (or even sense the loss of) that which we have never known? Especially for lifelong urbanites estranged from nature, who nevertheless grasp the severity and complexity of the problem—how might they remember? How might they mourn? Perhaps indirectly—that is to say, in an exploratory and non-dogmatic fashion—Green-House, a project birthed by Olive Ardizoni and now officially a duo project featuring long-time collaborator and confidant, Michael Flanagan, seeks to address this gap in understanding.
Six Songs for Invisible Gardens, the debut Green-House EP whose 2020 release coincided with the depths of Covid-19 “lockdown,” responded to the rampant heartsickness of human and plant life, especially in non-rural areas. The packaging of the cassette release famously included wildflower seeds for the listener to scatter. This gesture (at once simple and daring, especially when one considers the logistical element) exists as testament to the sincerity and seriousness of Ardizoni’s convictions. Music for Living Spaces, the first full-length Green-House LP, followed in 2021— a refinement of the formula that enshrined Six Songs as a cult, eco-ambient hit. Out October 13, 2023 on Leaving Records, they have returned with the LP A Host For All Kinds of Life, a third entry in a series of releases whose titles have incidentally all revolved around the “for” construction: an unofficial canon of offerings, or maybe rather instructions as to how the music contained therein might, could, and should operate in/on the listener’s life and “living space(s).”
Decidedly the most expansive Green-House release — one need only consider the LP’s title and the kaleidoscopic, fractal cover art designed by Flanagan—A Host For All Kinds of Life troubles the very notion of “ambient music,” a category with whom Green-House has always existed in some degree of tension. What if a song’s seeming softness constitutes its biting edge? What if easeful, contemplative pleasure can radically alter our mindset? Our very role as worldly subjects? Drawing on the works of Lynn Margulis and our burgeoning understanding of the evolutionary role of biological mutualism (associations between species in which both species benefit), A Host For All Kinds of Life is a deeply entrenched and politically grounded song suite. And there are indeed discrete songs here, with defined structure, momentum, and sway; see the gilded, sixties-evoking melodic arabesque of the record’s ninth and penultimate track, “Everything is Okay” (which incidentally ends with the release’s only human voice—a tender message left for Ardizoni by their mother).
In conversation, Ardizoni speaks often of the centrality of joy—that Green-House’s very existence can be traced to a conscious decision they made to not only choose joy as an act of rebellion, but to find that joy in whatever plant life they could access in their immediate environment. In this sense, all of Green-House’s releases (and A Host for All Kinds of Life especially) embody a radicality that may elude the casual or first-time listener. To choose, model, and express joy in an ailing world requires courage, a courage that must be jealously guarded and constantly replenished. A Host For all Kinds of Life encourages the listener to slow down, take stock, tune in to the more-than-human world around them, and gather their courage and joy in light of the uncertainty to come.

Album Release Show at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles

Vizualizers & art direction by Michael Flanagan

- shipping mid-october
- printed inner sleeve
- artwork & layout by Michael Flanagan

BLACK VINYL

- now shipping
- limited edition of 400 
- white ink on transparent orange cassettes
- artwork & layout by Michael Flanagan

TRANSPARENT ORANGE CASSETTE

TRANSPARENT ORANGE VINYL

A Host for All Kinds of Life

Coquina

Lichen Maps

Desire Path

Castle Song

Far More Other

Luna Clipper

Ferndell Shade

Everything is Okay

Many Years Later

Vizualizers &#x26; art direction by Michael Flanagan

<ul>
<li>shipping mid-october</li>
<li>printed inner sleeve</li>
<li>artwork &#x26; layout by Michael Flanagan</li>
</ul>

<ul>
<li>now shipping</li>
<li>limited edition of 400</li>
<li>white ink on transparent orange cassettes</li>
<li>artwork &#x26; layout by Michael Flanagan</li>
</ul>