The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton is an album by Clogs

Clogs (band)

Clogs are a mostly instrumental project led by Bryce Dessner and Australia's Padma Newsome. Their existence predates Dessner's other band The National...

, released in March 2010. This is their first non-instrumental album, featuring several guest singers, including Shara Worden

Shara Worden

Shara Worden is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. She was previously a backup vocalist for Sufjan Stevens and the frontwoman of Awry.-Life:...

, singer and songwriter of the indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band My Brightest Diamond

My Brightest Diamond

My Brightest Diamond is the project of singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Worden. The band has released two studio albums, 2006's Bring Me the Workhorse and 2008's A Thousand Shark's Teeth, along with a remix album Tear It Down and a download-only release through iTunes...

, Matt Berninger, lead singer of Clogs' sister band the National

The National (band)

The National is an indie rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1999 and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The band's lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger, a baritone...

 and Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens

Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...

, a prominent indie folk

Indie folk

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 singer/songwriter.

The name of the album is a reference to La Mortella

La Mortella

La Mortella is a private garden in the island of Ischia, Italy. It was first opened to the public in 1992. It was created by Susana Walton , wife of the composer William Walton, in 1950 as the main residence for the couple....

, a private garden on the Italian island of Ischia

Ischia

Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, about 30 km from the city of Naples. It is the largest of the Phlegrean Islands. Roughly trapezoidal in shape, it measures around 10 km east to west and 7 km north to south and has...

 created by Lady Susana Walton, wife of composer William Walton

William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...

.

Track listing

All songs written by Padma Newsome.

1. "Cocodrillo" – 1:50
2. "I Used to Do" – 4:35
3. "On the Edge" – 4:01
4. "Red Seas" – 6:13
5. "The Owl of Love" – 4:11
6. "Adages of Cleansing" – 5:54
7. "Last Song" – 3:59
8. "To Hugo" – 4:27
9. "Raise the Flag" – 2:47
10. "We Were Here" – 4:22

Personnel

• Padma Newsome: violin, viola, mandola, celeste, voice
• Bryce Dessner
  Bryce Dessner
  Bryce Dessner is a Brooklyn based composer, guitarist, and curator primarily known as a member of The National. In addition to his work with The National, he is a founding member of Clogs, and the founder of the MusicNOW Festival. Bryce has a master's degree in classical guitar from Yale University...
  
  : guitars, mandola, ukulele
• Aaron Dessner
  Aaron Dessner
  Aaron Dessner is a founding member of The National. Together with Matt Berninger, who writes the lyrics, Aaron writes much of the music for the band...
  
  : guitar, bass guitar
• Thomas Kozumplik: percussion
• Rachael Elliott: bassoon
• Shara Worden
  Shara Worden
  Shara Worden is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. She was previously a backup vocalist for Sufjan Stevens and the frontwoman of Awry.-Life:...
  
  : voice
• Matt Berninger: voice
• Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...
  
  : voice, banjo
• Sue Newsome: clarinet
• Michael Atkinson: horn
• Kyle Resnick: trumpet
• Osso String Quartet: Ha-yang Kim: cello, Irena Havel: viola da gamba, Vojtech Havel: viola da gambas, Luca Tarantino: baroque guitar, theorbo.

External links

• Brassland.org
• Clogs official website