The Tear Garden: Tired Eyes Slowly Burning 1987

 

The Tear Garden is an experimental/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The

THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS

Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel. An EP, The Tear Garden, was released that same year. While sustaining a stance in the Canadian industrial trio Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key also maintained several side projects such as Tear Garden and Hilt.
              

SKINNY PUPPY

Not as chaotic as Skinny Puppy, Key's ambient side work began in the mid-'80s when he and Legendary Pink Dots' Edward Ka-Spel teamed up to form Tear Garden. Tired Eyes Slowly Burning (1987) marked

the band's debut and sharply defined Key's talented programming skills to move him out from behind the blazing showcase of Skinny Puppy frontman Nivek Ogre. Key's keen ear quickly called out detail while searching for a lush composition versus the sonic disintegration of his other band, and this is what made Tear Garden enjoyably different.
                     

The Tear Garden released the album Tired Eyes Slowly Burning in 1987. It featured contributions from Skinny Puppy members Dwayne Goettel, Nivek Ogre, and Dave Ogilvie. The record featured a nearly

17 minute long track titled "You and Me and Rainbows", described by AllMusic's Sean Carruthers as "monolithic... but worth every second". A reissue of the album included the groups first EP, The Tear Garden, with the rest of the album.[2] 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.
                   

While completing Skinny Puppy's The Process, things were suddenly interrupted by the 1995

DWAYNE GOETTEL

overdose death of keyboardist Dwayne Goettel. A bitter battle over the release of The Process prolonged into 1996, giving Key final creative control over his music due to Skinny Puppy's tragic demise.
                 

Not distraught by the horrible events brought on by the year before, Key plugged 1996's To Be an

Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide and 1997's Paradigm Shift, while keeping a low profile, and Tear Garden solidly became his chief project. Two more albums surfaced in 2000, the extensive compilation featuring Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, and Tear Garden material entitled Wild Planet: Subconsious Communications, and the new Tear Garden LP Crystal Mass.
               

Tired Eyes Slowly Burning is the debut album of the Canadian band The Tear Garden, released in 1987

through Nettwerk. It is the band's first studio album, preceded by their self-titled EP released a year prior. That EP is appended to the end of Tired Eyes Slowly Burning as tracks 7 to 10. AllMusic critic Sean Carruthers wrote, "it mixes together to create a dreamy electronic mix that owes something to both Skinny Puppy and The Legendary Pink Dots, but is nonetheless totally different.
               

Think Pink Floyd on a scary electronic acid trip and you're getting close." James Muretich of the

Calgary Herald felt the album was more enjoyable than the output of Ka-Spel and Key's respective bands at the time, and said that it "engrosses the senses with its eerie but enticing psychedelic/electronic sound". Tom harrison of The Province likened the album to the work of Pink Floyd and praised the two musicians for leaving their comfort zone to produce an album that he thought was "palpably romantic".
                            

The Tear Garden – Tired Eyes Slowly Burning
Label: Nettwerk – W2-30019
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 1987    
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Industrial, Experimental

TRAXS

               

01. Deja Vu    4:48
02. Room With A View    6:06
03. Coma    4:10
04. Valium    5:38
05. You And Me And Rainbows (Parts One To Six)    16:46
06. OO EE OO    5:16
07. The Center Bullet    9:46
08. Ophelia    8:36
09. Tear Garden    4:50
10. My Thorny Thorny Crown    3:57

LINE - UP

THE TEAR GARDEN

              

Edward Ka-Spel – lyrics, vocals, music
cEvin Key – lyrics, music, engineering, mixing

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

              

Dwayne Goettel – keyboards (1, 2, 3, 5)
Dave Ogilvie – guitar and tapes (1, 5), engineering, mixing
Lee Salford – percussion (2, 5)
Lisa – vocals (4)
Nivek Ogre – vocals (5)

TEAR GARDEN LYRICS
                          

 

Our lady on the balcony in black and red
The band plays stronger
Spinning back we tread on broken glass
Our heels dig harder

I circle round inside your belt
I felt your heart race faster
Our eyes met with the eyes fixed in the sky
All seeing, knowing, probing, to the bottom of our souls

On tear garden
On tear garden

You moaned
We shivered
We cowered in the corner
We watch the arms go flying rigid
Heard them call his name again
Again

Pressed our hands to our ears
We waited for the rain
Waiting for the gentle rain to fall on tear garden
Waiting for the gentle rain to fall on tear garden
Tear garden

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