Dana at Martin Bisi’s studio in Brooklyn during the recording of Suspension
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‘Bee and Flower is an intense New York quintet that plays darkly beautiful songs. Tasteful exotic touches such as the lap steel, viola, and xylophone push the band further into rich harmonic territory and away from conventional rock aesthetics.’ – Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker
Bee and Flower are doing a ‘Blog Takeover’ starting this Monday, Feb. 7th at The Vinyl District—one full week of posts by the band! Look for a free 7” giveaway and other goodies. Vinyl District’s blog is smart, funny, informative, and is a big supporter of the music community. Well worth a visit. Thanks Vinyl District!
Bee and Flower at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in NYC, 2010
A still from the video shoot for ‘Waiting Room’ from the upcoming album Suspension
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‘Jackson’ from Bee and Flower’s forthcoming album Suspension
‘Jackson’ was initially a quiet little ditty, written on my 1940’s acoustic Spanish guitar, combined with melody played on a 6 euro thrift store Casio and a simple vocal humming the melody line.
Once I got to Berlin and met with Rod, Joni, Thomas, and Sibylle to go through a batch of new songs, we ditched my original guitar part and Joni wrote that fierce, strangled line that totally transformed the whole song. The Casio became the cello line and Thomas added that primal, sexy beat, and Rod’s organ line finished the job (so to speak).
Up to that point, the lyrics were in progress, but the way the song shaped up focused it into a fitting tale of seduction, temptation and waiting. Nice girls don’t finish first. - Dana Schechter
A clip of Bee and Flower performing ‘Twin Stars’ live at Schokoladen in Berlin
PopMatters review of our first album, What’s Mine Is Yours: ‘Listening to What’s Mine Is Yours is like waking slowly from a nightmare—not the kind to scare you under your bed, but the really cool kind that intrigues, so that when you reach for the glass of water beside you, you wish soon to fall back into the mystery of your mind-created madness.’ (Click image for full review)
A music video compiled of footage from various live shows for our song ‘Don’t Say Don’t Worry’ from our 2007 album Last Sight of Land
(Photo by Carsten Klindt) Suspension is BEE AND FLOWER’S most focused and direct recording to date. The album redefines the band’s twisted-yet-catchy melodies, heartbreaking swoons, and fierce dark landscapes to glittering effect. Recorded in Berlin and Brooklyn, Suspension marks a return… (Click photo for more info)
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