In summer, 2007, Harrison Speck’s bedroom recordings began taking shape. Through months of experimentation, he found himself making musical compositions interacting with impressionistic lyrical content and melodies dictated in their rhythm. Catchy and complicated, the songs reflected the nature of conflict, both lyrically and musically. A collection of seven songs were taken from this time period, later to become the EP titled “Some Summer Falls”. It was given to friends and bandmates in the ...
In summer, 2007, Harrison Speck’s bedroom recordings began taking shape. Through months of experimentation, he found himself making musical compositions interacting with impressionistic lyrical content and melodies dictated in their rhythm. Catchy and complicated, the songs reflected the nature of conflict, both lyrically and musically. A collection of seven songs were taken from this time period, later to become the EP titled “Some Summer Falls”. It was given to friends and bandmates in the Austin music community. The enthusiastic response prompted Speck to recruit a band capable of adapting the original material to live performance, which became Austin’s One Hundred Flowers in the spring of 2008.
Using the original songs as a starting point, the band formed their own identity. Inwardly focused songwriting was accented by soaring harmonies, layered keyboards, dynamic swells, and unconventional rhythms. For the first year and a half of the bands life, they played every show offered, and working with their artist collective, Stem and Leaf, to create a community who believed in the same artistic expressions . They've played regionally on a regular basis, establishing close ties to the music communities of Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denton, Houston, and San Antonio. Their live show and upcoming album has received acclaim from both their peers and press; their sound has been described anywhere from "a very clamorous, charming, wistful and layered pop sound" to "complex, weird, and beautiful. Music that requires you to pay attention, but rewards you for doing so." After two years of shaping the album in the Austin music scene, Mechanical Bride showcases the group's inwardly focused songwriting accented by layered vintage synths and keyboards, dynamic swells, and unconventional rhythms, with "multiple voices melting together, guitar, electric piano, trumpet, even some woodblock to create a sound that owes as much to musical machinery as it does to organic indie folk." Austin band One Hundred Flowers will be releasing their debut album entitled Mechanical Bride, recently recorded at Cacophony Recorders, engineered by Erik Wofford (The Black Angels, Voxtrot, Okkervil River), and partnered with Stem and Leaf Records.
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