Green-House

Music for plants

Green-House began as the project of Olive Ardizoni, who previously fronted metal and punk bands, and is now presented as a duo with the long-time collaborator Michael Flanagan, who has a jazz guitar background and is credited as co-producer and keyboardist on Six Songs for Invisible Gardens, and for the art and design of its vinyl packaging. The first release was Peperomia Seedling in December 2019, per Bandcamp. Leaving Records released the EP Six Songs for Invisible Gardens on January 15, 2020 (LR 159), on digital, black vinyl and a cassette packaged with wildflower seeds at the start of the pandemic, all sold out. The label describes it as written to change the listening environment and enhance domestic space, designed as communication with plant life and the people who care for it, and says Ardizoni approached the project with an intentional naivety.

Chysis, named for an orchid genus, followed in March 2020; Ardizoni told Twisted Soul the music is the garden of your mind, an intangible garden. Passiflora came in August 2020, Music for Living Spaces, their first full-length, in May 2021, Solar Editions in April 2022 and A Host for All Kinds of Life in October 2023, which Ban Ban Ton Ton describes as kankyo ongaku and new age with flute, piano, acoustic strings, wooden percussion and theremin, and whose tracks include "Luna Clipper", "Ferndell Shade" with shakuhachi, "Coquina" and "Desire Path". Arcana's Ben Hogwood says the group delivers its message with subtle power. Hinterlands (March 20, 2026, Ghostly International) was called a glistening ode to our dwindling natural spaces by The Everyday's Ollie Haggart.

Influences cited for Hinterlands include Tommy McCook and the Supersonics, Jackie Mittoo, Nala Sinephro, the Singers Unlimited and Alabaster DePlume; reviewers compare them with Mort Garson, David Behrman, Virginia Astley and Hiroshi Yoshimura. Ardizoni told In Sheep's Clothing that cuteness and aesthetics can be punk in themselves. In March 2026 they played a Living Earth session at the Geoponika Greenhouse on March 29 and the Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Highland Park, building a more improvisational live set. We found no Wikipedia, MusicBrainz or setlist.fm entries.