Early Music, Old Folky stuff, traditional from many parts; Colin Wilson, existentialists, romantics, Dylan Thomas, Kathleen Raine, Hafiz, J. C. Powys; Wilhelm Reich, 3HO K.Y., >>>Music of: Donovan, Buffy St-Marie, Pentangle, Bert Janch, Jackson C. Frank, Gene Clark, Opal, Scott Walker, Strawbs, Tir Na Nog, Trader Horne, Velvet Underground, The Watersons, 17 Pygmies, C.O.B., Incredible String Band, Legendary Pink Dots, Pearls before Swine, Psychic TV, Wizz Jones, Marc Bolan, Bridgit St John, Kriss Kristofferson, Leonard Cohen, Rod McKuen, B. Fontaine, The Trees, Forest, Tim Buckley, Magic Carpet, Roy Harper, Kendra Smith, Nick Drake, other...
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"a master-work of contemplative genius by an artist
at the peak of his songwriting powers." - Barl
Fire [full review here]
"Fortune & Folly" is an album that must
be experienced. Atmospheric and almost downright spooky, its melancholy
is rich, while the harmonies are thick and juicy. Addictive." -J-Sin
for Smothernet [full review here]
"Birch Book writes music that is almost painfully
pleasurable to listen to. This is still true folk music in the striking
power of its simplicity. The relationship of artist and guitar is noticeably
intimate and the vocals drift gently, sometimes barely - deliberately
- out of the shadows. The listener's mind is caressed and the soul is
stirred." - UpchuckUndergrind,
fishcomcollective [full review here]
"Birch Book begins and ends with
an instrumental piece that seems to reference moments in a Satyajit Ray
film: heavy rainfall on a lily pond, the burning of a mustard field, children
playing in the dirt..." NE
Performer Review Here
"This album is
not what many expect, it is not overly experimental, not droning or psychedelic
but it simultaneously brings the older mystical folk of Donovan into the
current and points a new individualistic way forward for the artist..."
Unbroken Circle Review
Here
Assuming the allegorical emblems of The Wheel of Fortune and The Traveling Fool, Fortune & Folly distills the introspections of a perennial rambler reckoning 'the Bitter and the Bliss' of The Road Less Traveled; Brooding layers of sound and sense yield a spectral ethereality thick with the visionary allusions of a haunted wanderer bent upon a mythic path…
>>>>>>>A Psychedelic Folk Pilgrim re-collects a dozen years against the grain; ...hinging on the fringes of darkness and day, hand-bound in the Outsider's dreamscape of Birch Book.
>>>>>>>
B'ee spent the mid 90's recording for the dark-starred World Serpent imprint with the soporific and supernatural In Gowan Ring.
‘Birch Book’ marks an evolution in sound away from the overtly psychedelic towards a simpler, highly effective, direct song based approach, reflecting the distillations of a perennial rambler, reckoning a road less traveled.
This album is not what many expect, it is not overly experimental or droning but it simultaneously brings the older mystical folk into the current and points a new individualistic way forward for the artist.
Howdy! Awesome tunes in here! Like it a lot. Thanx for the accept. Really appreciate it. Wish you an awesome Wednesday! Rock and Rollon =) All the best from Norway and Merlin's Company
"Beware of the armadilloes whose dark shadows sweeps the streets"
And Also The Trees débute une tournée de dix concerts en France à la fin du mois d’octobre 2009 dont une soirée à Paris, au Café de la Danse, le 30 octobre. Où que vous habitiez, le groupe passe forcément près de chez vous. Réservez vos places !
Suite au succès de sa tournée européenne de juin dernier, And Also The Trees est déjà de retour en France pour dix nouvelles dates.
Groupe culte de la période post-punk au même titre que Joy Division et produit par Robert Smith, And Also The Trees sortait au printemps dernier un nouvel album, When the Rains Come. Un très beau disque acoustique qui revisite le répertoire du groupe anglais et dont Les Inrockuptibles ont écrit qu’il s’agissait là du "meilleur album des Tindersticks, haut la main."
Recentrés pour l'occasion autour de Simon Huw Jones au chant, Justin Jones à la guitare acoustique, Ian Jenkins à la contrebasse et Emer Brizzolara au dulcimer, And Also The Trees dévoilera lors de cette série de concerts un nouvel EP vinyle en édition strictement limitée à paraître avant le début de l’hiver chez Les Disques du 7ème Ciel.
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