All tMitG merchandise in our store is on sale for the month of December! Just use coupon code GOTHCEMBER when checking out via ccnow and get 20% off your entire order.
Digital Version
This is primarily a digital release. You can choose the audio format you wish to download, including various lossless formats. Plus there will be a PDF of a full booklet in a ready-to-print format (spreads, bleeds and crop marks) and a PDF of the CD-onprint for those of you who have a capable printer.
Buy the digital version from Bandcamp
Special Edition CD
For those who would something a little more special, we're doing a very small run of a Special Edition version of the album. It's a professionally duplicated and printed CD-R in an eco-pack sleeve, limited-edition of 50, hand-numbered, hand-embellished and autographed. It will be available in approximately 3 weeks but available immediately for pre-order. To hold you until then we'll email you a download code for Bandcamp so you can enjoy the music immediately. The price is $20.
Buy the Special Edition**Please allow up to 24 hours to receive your Bandcamp download code
Additional information is available on the album's discography page.
the Machine in the Garden and Deus ex Musica are proud to present Before and After the Storm, the band’s eighth studio album.
The eight new songs encompass the variety of styles — from goth rock to electronic ethereal — the band is known for. tMitG also tapped some of their favorite artists for three remixes on the album: Frances Byrne (Wench – www.wenchmusic.net), Falling You (www.fallingyou.com) and Miles Fender (Earth Calling Angela, Charlottesville – www.streetlightfarm.com).
The name “Before and After the Storm” has several different meanings for the band, but ultimately it has to do with the interweaving of music and events from different times in life and how much even a single event can change that life. This is evident from the selection of songs, some of which have their roots in music begun many years ago combined with more recent creations.
This time differential is also evident in the influences for the songs, says Roger, “I wanted to draw heavily from old-school/classic groups in the genre — get back to some “goth” roots — Swans, The Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division for example, but at the same time evolve those sounds into something current. But also newer artists such as Sarah Fimm and Emmalee Crane also played influential roles on other songs. Ultimately it came out sounding like tMitG, which is the point, really.”
Lyrically many of the songs also follow a theme, says Summer, “I looked to mythology and mysticism when I was writing the lyrics for these songs. I wanted to think about other cultures and their origin stories as a mirror of returning to many of our musical roots with this work.”
Before and After the Storm will initially be a digital-only release on the Machine in the Garden’s Bandcamp page tmitg.bandcamp.com on Friday, 24 June 2011, followed soon after by digital release on the iTunes Music Store, Amazon mp3 and others (via CDBaby). Before and After the Storm will also be released in the near future as a very limited, special-edition CD available directly from the band.
We made a short teaser video for the new album, viewable on YouTube. Enjoy!
the Machine in the Garden are proud to announce the availability of their new single, "In the Vanir," on Friday, 10 December 2010. This is a digital-only single available on tMitG's Bandcamp page and also includes a remix by UK alternative-goth project Monica's Last Prayer. Pricing will be set as "name your price" for a limited time.
"In the Vanir" is a preview of the Machine in the Garden's forthcoming mini-album "Before and After the Storm" to be released in early 2011.
More information here.
We've set up a page on Bandcamp as a new method of distributing our music digitally in pretty much any format you could want, including lossless. Check it out at http://tmitg.bandcamp.com/. We've already uploaded a few things, but nothing too interesting. Yet.
15% off any order from our merchandise page. This (long) weekend only!
For those of you on iTunes Ping, we have an artist profile there now. Please follow us! http://tmitg.com/ping
In celebration of World Goth Day on May 22nd, we're offering free standard shipping on all of our merchandise. So pull on your pointy boots, pick up some CDs and t-shirts and show your pride this Saturday!
Use coupon code GOTHDAY2010 at checkout. It should auto-fill.
Well, somehow we forgot to post this: "Auf Dem See" by The Synthetic Dream Foundation, on which Summer performs guest vocals, has been remixed and was released back in February. Check out "Auf Dem See (Serpentine Mix)" on amazon.com, itunes, or lala.com.
Starting on Monday, January 25th and continuing for two weeks, CD Baby will donate $1 of their cut from every CD sale through our website, and $1 from every download sale over $8.99 on our site, to the American Red Cross and to Mercy Corps, a Portland-based relief organization with a large presence in Haiti. With your help, they hope to raise tens of thousands of dollars.
