From Tallinn, Estonia, comes Lady Garden +. Triplets Jelena (Lena), Tatjana (Janz) and Natalja (Lia) are the writers, performers and musicians of Lady Garden, a percussive-based EDM/Pop crossover act.
Now residing in Wellington, New Zealand, they are trained singers and dancers. One of their stated influences is Mariah Carey and the multiple octave range she can hit. The girls themselves have several ranges and each one takes turns at different pitches during different songs on the album.
Released Thursday 7th January 2026, they proudly bring you the album From Tallinn To Taranaki Street.
All music performed, recorded, mixed, mastered at Underhill Studios, Featherston, New Zealand by Jack G.
Above l to r: Lena, Janz, Lia. The girls speak about each track in turn.:
1. Rainclouds: Janz says that Rainclouds was written on board the aircraft taking off from London, heading west. It’s about the unknown and the feelings of love, trepidation and excitement at travelling with one’s identical triplet sisters on a global adventure.
2. Go Slow Baby Sister: Again, Janz speaks, telling us this one is a song written for young sister Tiina who they left behind in Estonia, being still in high school. The triplets are telling Tiina to enjoy her teens and not try to grow up too quickly yet. Lia interjects and says this is the first song they wrote which they feel is their own signature “Rainbows and Unicorns” Europop sound, written for young girls everywhere to know they have a sisterhood all over the world.
3. Schoolyard Games: Lena speaks about this one, telling us that the song is a largely instrumental one, quite saccharine in melody and tone, and is about being placed into an institution without understanding why, and with no explanation, no goodbyes, and ultimately no hope of being taken out by those one loves. This was inspired by the visions on TV of Romanian orphanages, revealed after the fall of Nicolai Ceaucescu.
4. Do Ya Do Ya: Lia says this is another “Rainbows and Unicorns” number. This is dedicated to her first same sex partner, and the overwhelming suffocation Lia felt in the relationship. While there was love and passion, Lia was not ready for the level of commitment her partner wanted. When the triplets announced their plans to travel the world and make music the relationship ended. Janz laughs about one line close to the end of the song about making out, where Lia raps about making out on a couch and goes a little crazy on the mic. Fully expecting it to be cut, the girls were delighted when their producer left the crazy segment in.
5. Mamma Loved Sami Yaffa: The triplets, while loving both parents, have a particular respect for the mother and the values she taught them as young women. This song is about their respect for her, and includes a segment in Japanese from the girls’ great friend Aiko from Japanese alternative band The Blossom Belles. The reference to Finnish bass player Sami Yaffa, from 80s Glam Punk icons Hanoi Rocks, is in homage to their mother playing Hanoi Rocks songs to the girls from when they were very young. This is also why the girls wanted a Japanese section in the song, as Hanoi Rocks were hugely popular there during the time the girls mother followed them. They ensured the track is in the Rainbows and Unicorns pop vein they love so much.
6. Asylum Inclinations: while the triplets were based in London’s Lambeth, they got to feel the vibe of a major city from the very grass roots level. The Caribbean and African communities were very open to the girls experiencing their musical cultures, and the girls wanted this all to reflect in the vibe of the song. The starkness of life in a multi-million population city left questions in the girls regarding how to find themselves in such a vibrant, noisy, eclectic yet occasionally sinister place for a young female.
7. Quiet Conversation: when Lia came out to Lena and Janz, it was during a date the two had set up for her with a young man back in Tallinn. Lia felt that she was “broken” and was supposed to like the young man but she couldn’t, and made her excuses, running to where she knew Lena and Janz were waiting. She confessed to them then and there that she likes women only. From the quiet conversation Lia was able to be herself. This is a more relaxed Rainbows and Unicorns track.
8. The Saddest Summer: Rainbows and Unicorns time again, this time the girls realising the level of patriarchic bias in the world is still a considerable challenge to all women. The lyrics are a reflection of the various times they have tried to make some headway somewhere and found that people they thought were friends weren’t quite what they thought. It’s also meant to be tongue in cheek in that how dare people think they can treat others thusly, so what sounds like a lament is actually the three girls mocking out of date societal systems.
9. Green Skies Extended mix: Green Skies is a warning shot across the bows of the capitalist system that’s dragging the planet down under the weight of consumerism. Passionately Green, the sisters have written a number seen from the eyes of a cyborg from off-world, returning to Earth to see the toxic skies coloured an ironic green, making the viewer laugh at the comparison. The video is a representation of a dystopian world dying under a poisoned atmosphere.
10. Cold Cold Extended Mix: this is simply an homage to Estonia and the lives the girls led in the capital Tallinn. The extended version is intended to feature the percussive elements the girls love to add to any Europop they put together.
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