Lady Besery's Garden

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Lady Besery's Garden
General information
origin Leverkusen , Germany
Genre (s) Gothic rock , dark wave
founding 1993
resolution 2000?
Last occupation
k.baal
h.bo
a.lu

Lady Besery's Garden was a German Gothic Rock / Dark Wave formation that was founded in Leverkusen in 1993 . Musically rooted in the 1980s, the band celebrated some successes within the black scene with songs like A Gaping Tear , Arlene , Andy Warhol and Collapse .

history

Inspired by the music of bands such as Joy Division , Bauhaus , The Cure , Christian Death and Clan of Xymox , Lady Besery's Garden was founded in 1993 with a three-man line-up and a drum computer. The group emerged from an earlier project called the Day of Judgment , which was stylistically based on the Sisters of Mercy . The cast appeared exclusively under artist names (for example, the pseudonym k.baal is based on the poem "Der Gott der Stadt" by Georg Heym ).

After releasing a 5-track demo, the band produced their debut album on their own. Initially it was planned to market this work under the title "dto." As a result of a call to newcomer bands to submit titles for a wave compilation, however, contact was made with Accession Records (known through bands like Diary of Dreams ). Adrian Hates , the label operator at the time, was so enthusiastic about the material that he launched "dto." In 1996 under the title "Perceptions". "Perceptions" received mostly positive reviews in the relevant music magazines such as The Gothic Grimoire , Zillo and Orkus and was compared to the early works of renowned dark wave groups such as Clan of Xymox and The Danse Society .

Completed in 1997, the second work "Experiment - Experience - Explosion" was published in 1998, which includes Andy Warhol, a cover version of the David Bowie song of the same name . It should remain the band's most famous track. Although "Experiment - Experience - Explosion" received mostly positive reviews, Lady Besery's Garden subsequently disappeared from the public eye and was soon forgotten.

Texts

In their lyrics, the band mainly took up social and media critical topics. But also decadence and the self-destructive tendency of human nature form the subject of her songs ( A Gaping Tear , Play Pervert ). The second work "Experiment - Experience - Explosion" continues these main themes:

“ The album title refers to people's lack of foresight. He naively experiments with things, even though negative experiences are predictable, and the whole thing ends in disaster. “Collapse” describes, for example, the hesitant behavior of people in the face of an emerging, but not yet immediately noticeable danger. If this then breaks in on them, every reaction often comes much too late "

- K.Baal, 1999

Surname

The band name "Lady Besery's Garden" is a linguistic reference to "Bathory" (English [ ˈbæθɐri ] spoken), the family name of the Hungarian Countess Erzsébet Báthory . The name has no deeper meaning and was chosen solely because of its sound.

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1996: Perceptions (CD)
  • 1998: Experiment - Experience - Explosion (CD)

Compilations

  • 1996: "Altered State" on The Gothic Grimoire Volume 3/1996 - (CD)
  • 1998: "A Gaping Tear" on Touched by the Hand of Goth Volume IV - (DCD)
  • 1999: "Collapse" on Deejay Tribe Volume 2 - (DCD)
  • 1999: "Altered States (Version)" on Dion Fortune Sampler Volume VI - (CD)
  • 1999: "Andy Warhol" on Pearls of Passion - (DCD)
  • 1999: "World Buildings" on Wellenreiter in Schwarz Volume 4 - (DCD)
  • 2000: "Collapse" on New Alternatives Volume 5 - (DCD)
  • 2000: "Vanity" on We Came To Dance 2000 - (DCD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dennis Wollnik: Interview with Lady Besery's Garden , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 3/99, p. 52, March 1999
  2. ↑ a b c Jürgen Schneider: Interview with Lady Besery's Garden , New Life Soundmagazine , issue 9/96, p. 13, October 1996
  3. ↑ Dirk Hoffmann: Review of the album “Perceptions” , Zillo Musikmagazin, issue 7-8 / 96, p. 70, July / August 1996
  4. ↑ Magnus Schürger: Report on Lady Besery's Garden , Orkus Musikmagazin, issue 12-1 / 96-97, p. 28, December / January 1996/1997
  5. ↑ a b Jörg Bartscher-Kleudgen : Interview with Lady Besery's Garden , The Gothic Grimoire, Edition 3/96, p. 3, 1996