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The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/gothic/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin
Key of SkinnyPuppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. The Tear Garden was
released that same year, withDave Ogilvie producing.
The group reconvened in 1987 to release Tired Eyes Slowly Burning with contributions from the other members of Skinny
Puppy to a limiteddegree of success. Members of the Legendary Pink Dots would henceforth contribute to Tear Garden and in
1992 they released the full-length album The Last Man to Fly. ...read more
The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/gothic/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin
Key of SkinnyPuppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. The Tear Garden was
released that same year, withDave Ogilvie producing.
The group reconvened in 1987 to release Tired Eyes Slowly Burning with contributions from the other members of Skinny
Puppy to a limiteddegree of success. Members of the Legendary Pink Dots would henceforth contribute to Tear Garden and in
1992 they released the full-length album The Last Man to Fly. Another EP, Sheila Liked The Rodeo, much of which was live
studio improvisation was accompanied by avideo (directed by William Morrison) of the title track in 1993.
With the collapse of Skinny Puppy in 1995 and cEvin's primary commitment over, he and The Tear Garden released To Be an
Angel Blind,The Crippled Soul Divide in 1996, followed by Crystal Mass in 2000. Crystal Mass marked a departure for the
group, with more focusseemingly directed toward sound and production than the traditional staple, the lyrics. In 2002 a
limited edition compilation of previouslyunreleased songs, Eye Spy With My Little Eye came out on Key's Subconscious
Communications label. A best of, For Those Who WouldWalk With The Gods is also available.
The Tear Garden have never toured, a detail that has limited their commercial potential. The only live performance of Tear
Garden materialby members of both Skinny Puppy and the Legendary Pink Dots was on April 14, 1988 in Leiden, Holland and
May 1, 1988 at Foyer St.Arbogast in Strassbourg France, during Skinny Puppy's Head Trauma tour, for which Edward Ka-Spel
was the opening solo act. At the end ofKa-Spel's set cEvin Key joined him on guitar and keyboards for a performance of the
song The Centre Bullet. The Legendary Pink Dots haveperformed Isis Veiled as an almost necessary encore at every show
during their last few tours.
As of March 2008, after having successfully collaborated in 2007 on The Secret Experiment, cEvin Key has made mention
that Edward Ka-Spel is due to show up in Los Angeles sometime soon and that new material could possibly arise from any
presumed meeting of the pair. « hide |
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