All recording, producing and mixing done by Buck and Shanti
Copyright 2009 Buck Curran and Shanti Curran
All art property of Shanti Curran Photography (unless otherwise stated)
Copyright 2009
Influences
Sounds Like
'River and Rapids' Film by Craig Saddlemire (http://www.roundpointmovies.org/)
'Black Mountain Road' Film by Francesco Paolo Paladino (C)2009
New and as yet unrecorded song called Arms and Horses filmed by Craig Saddlemire in our living room
'Seadrift' filmed live in our living room by Craig Saddlemire
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Arborea latest Live set on WFMU with host Irene Trudel June 2nd, 2008 (split session with Fern Knight)
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“When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air, you can never capture it again.”- Eric Dolphy
"We should be developing our loyalties to this planet, and this Earth, and our future, our Descendents.....More than we should be to governing political systems that have created all these problems" John Trudell
Reviews and Press
"Arborea's brand of folk music is ethereal, bone-chilling and beautiful all at once" -Performing Songwriter Magazine
"Maine folk duo Arborea creates timeless music, haunted by deep shadows. Their songs are bathed in shimmering harmonics, spectral slide, and positively spooky banjo. The songs also evoke a kind of mysterious quality, in which you are never quite sure what the songs are about, but they seem to touch a place in your soul that instinctively understands." -Dirty Linen Magazine
"...Shanti and Buck Curran get it right, with memorable songs that linger in the ether long after the last track ends." -Robin Hilton, producer All Songs Considered, National Public Radio
"Magic you can visit, again and again."-Phil McMullen, Terrascope
"A Magical Mystery Tour" - Boston Globe
BBC 10 June 2009
"Arborea, who hail from the state of Maine, aren't strictly speaking folk, country, or ambient but during the 32 minutes of their third album, the record drifts smokily somewhere between them all. Husband and wife team, Buck and Shanti Curran, construct a fragile, resonant world with a lingering Americana after-taste, shimmering with the same wide-open spaces Ry Cooder's captured so well on Paris, Texas.
Sounding like frayed, half-remembered, hand-me-down tunes, shaped and altered with each retelling, the fluidity and the sparse application of instruments wherein Eastern and Western modes gently mingle is the secret of this album's startling beauty.
Like other artists operating from the USA's east-coast indie folk scene (Espers, Fern Knight, ex reverie, etc), the music also involves an affectionate backward glance to late 60s/early 70s UK folk rock, itself cross-pollinated by the USA's psychedelic scene.
Whilst it's true that what goes around so often comes around, Arborea's take on all of the above is imbued with its very own distinctive brand of delicate, beguiling minimalism.
Plucked banjo notes on Look Down Fair Moon possesses a koto-like solemnity whilst a hymnal harmonium spreads out radiant lines of melody, slowly unfurling like the sun at the start of a summer's day on In The Tall Grass.
Sometimes Shanti's voice is little more than a frightened murmur, prompting comparisons to Vashti Bunyon, though not everything here is translucent or ephemeral.
A wry sensuality insinuates itself throughout Alligators, and for all her delicacy, Shanti's stylised articulation also carries an unexpected insistence instilled with an underlying menace on Beirut and the hypnotic Dance, Sing, Fight.
Here, her near-whispered reportage takes on an unsettling air, seeping through an intricate web of dulcimer and luminous slide guitar."
-Sid Smith
Welcome to my site, Arborea. Thank you so much for the add. I like your music, friendship and your site. Stay in touch if you like and have a blessed week. Grtz, John.
I've gone to the lake to see the stars down All the trees perfurmed the way with the polen lives. You have seen misspend the gold in evasions clothes A thousand of armours melting in the nigth.
Hi from France. I'm really happy to have you as friend. Your page is beautiful an' Music too. Like a window on the Mother Nature. Merci !! (In french). Have a nice day & we keep in touch. Friendly & respect, Jam Huon.
