Life Garden originally began in 1989 with David and Su Ling Oliphant improvising an array of acoustic instruments, synthesizers, and samplers to the background of George Dillon spoken poetry. Tragically, by the time Life Garden's first album, Caught Between the Tapestry of Silence and Beauty, came out in 1991, Dillon had passed away from the results of a heart attack. The band would continue on with the addition of noisemakers Peter Ragan and Bill Yanok as Life Garden progressed with their use of Buddhist and Tantric influences set to digital machination. This sound would be captured on the albums Pry Open My Mouth With the Red Knife of Heaven (1992) and Seed (1993)…
Life Line Project is a project in the true meaning of the word. It is build around one musician, Erik de Beer, either playing all instruments himself or contracting all the necessary vocalists or players according to the needs of the work in progress. Born in The Hague, Holland Erik started to play the guitar when he was 14 years old and keyboard at the age of 16. Right from the start his preference was symphonic rock. Erik started his studies at the conservatory for music in 1977 and finished them in 1983. He now works as a guitar & keyboard teacher. He started his first symphonic rock band J.S. Quasar in 1975 in which he played both keyboards and lead guitar. After some short stays in several bands Erik founded keyboard-dominated power-rock trio Brancard in 1979…