Green-House
from Lost And Sound Hosted by Paul Hanford
Everything is political, even nature. That spark leads us into a wide-ranging conversation with Green-House—Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan—whose new album Hinterlands on Ghostly International proves that quiet, spacious music can still carry teeth. We trace the project’s beginnings in LA: Olive escaping a soulless service job by walking Griffith Park, Michael offering early tech scaffolding, and the two slowly dissolving roles until the songs breathed on their own. Think Japanese environmental music and library records as wayfinders; sampled and real guitars treated like synths; textures that breathe, We dig into labels. “Ambient” doesn’t fit sonically, but its non-hierarchical ethos does. “New Age” is another story: we talk wellness capitalism, spiritual packaging, and the lazy use of eastern signifiers, especially glaring in LA where cultish histories still hum under the surface. From there, we examine the streaming economy that rewards backgroundability, how algorithms sell artists their own data back, and why Green-House resist being flattened into spa-core. Green-House on Instagram: Hinterlands is released on Ghostly International on March 20th Green-House on Bandcamp: https://green-house.bandcamp.com/album/hinterlands https://www.instagram.com/green_house1976/?hl=en Huge thanks to Audio-Technica – makers of beautifully engineered audio gear and sponsors of Lost and Sound. Check them out here: Audio-Technica My book Coming To Berlin is a journey through the city’s creative underground, and is available via Velocity Press Follow Lost and Sound on Substack You can also follow me on Instagram at @paulhanford for behind-the-scenes bits, guest updates, and whatever else is bubbling up. Support the show
Embed this episode
What this episode covers
Everything is political, even nature. That spark leads us into a wide-ranging conversation with Green-House—Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan—whose new album Hinterlands on Ghostly International proves that quiet, spacious music can still carry teeth. We trace the project’s beginnings in LA: Olive escaping a soulless service job by walking Griffith Park, Michael offering early tech scaffolding, and the two slowly dissolving roles until the songs breathed on their own. Think Japanese environ...
Chapters
- 0:00 Berlin Cold Open: Everything Is Political
- 0:35 Sponsor: Audio Technica
- 2:06 Show Framing And Guest Intro
- 4:06 Green-House Origins And Early Influences
- 7:22 Leaving Records Breakthrough And Duo Formation
- 10:12 Emotion, Process, And Partnership Dynamics
- 14:18 Nature As Neighbourhood And Class Access
- 18:31 Blending Organic And Electronic Sound
- 22:06 Ambient, Library Music, And Labels
- 25:12 New Age Critique And LA Wellness Culture
- 29:11 Playlists, Algorithms, And Background Music
- 33:20 Aggression, Horror Scores, And Live Set Tension
- 37:02 Art As Fuel For Collective Action
- 40:10 Culture Wars, Films, And Classed Feminism
- 44:02 Recommendations, Thanks, And Closing Credits
No transcript yet.