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Hymns of the God’s Gardeners, with Lyrics by Margaret Atwood and music by Orville Stoeber, is the companion piece to Margaret Atwood’s new novel, The Year of the Flood, which focuses on a group that appeared in the background of her 2003 novel, Oryx and Crake: The God’s Gardeners.

In an attempt to reconcile religion, science, and nature, The Gardeners have developed their own their liturgy, suitable to their beliefs. Music has been composed to the novel’s hymns and is sung  by Los Angeles composer Orville Stoeber in the spirit of the Gardeners themselves. Stoeber majestically sings the hymns on the CD accompanied by Ted Perlman on bass and Nelson Bragg on percussion.

The God’s Gardeners, led by the kindly Adam One, live simply and garden on slum rooftops. They have long predicted a man made pandemic. Now it has occurred obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Toby, once a Gardener, hiding in a luxury spa, and Ren, once a Gardener child, walled up in a high-end sex club. Have others survived? And what has happened to the CorpsSeCorps, the shadowy policing force of the ruling powers?

THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD will be published in September in the U,K., Canada and the U.S. as well as Holland, Germany and Austria. The CD -HYMNS OF THE GOD'S GARDENERS has been created to accompany the novel. It can be bought directly from GenePool records and Margaret Atwood’s websites as well as in selected bookstores.

Publishers of THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD all applaud HYMNS OF THE GOD'S GARDENERS as an extraordinary cycle of hymns composed, sung and recorded by Orville Stoeber both as an accompaniment to the novel, and a beautiful cycle of "green gospels" destined to become a musical legacy to all who embrace the planet.