Richard and Linda Thompson, Link Wray, Leon Russell, The Band, Bobby Charles, Funkadelic, The Louvin' Spoonful, Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Terry Reid, The Four Tops, Jackson Browne, Irma Thomas, Gene Clark, Fairport Convention, Dr. John, Waylon Jennings, Nashville West, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Buck Owens, Gary Snyder, Italo Calvino. Pablo Neruda, Lorca.
Sounds Like
"Fast Asleep live at ATP"
Follow Closely live at ATP
===Discography===
hush arbors
*''If There Be Spirits Let Them Come'' [3"cdr](foxglove)
*''Hush Arbors'' [cd] (Digitalis)
*''Since We Have Fallen'' [cdr] (Digitalis)
*''Under Bent Limb Trees'' [cd](Digitalis)
*''Death Calligraphy'' [3"cdr](mymwly)
*''Cleaning The Bone'' [3"cdr](267 lattajjaa)
*''Since We Have Fallen'' [LP] Reissue (Harvest Recordings)
*''Landscape of Bone''[cd] (Three Lobed Recordings, 2006)
*'' live at the pilot light'' [cdr] (self released)
*'' live in sheffield '' [cdr] (blackest rainbow records)
*''Under Bent limb tree's '' [2 cd expanded reissue](digitalis 2007)
* '' row life '' [tape] (fuckittapes)
*" reissue of "landscape of bone" [cdr] tour only (lmtd. 50 copies wolfking 2008)
* "reissue "live in sheffield + death calligraphy" [cdr] tour only (wolfking)
* " live in berlin" [cdr] Lmtd. 30 copies (wolfking)
* hush arbors - "untitled" (ecstatic peace) OUT NOW
splits
*''hush arbors/north sea/terracid'' [cdr] (Barl Fire)
*''hush arbors/north sea'' [cdr] (foxglove)
*''hush arbors/wooden wand/satya sai'' [cdr] (self released)
*'' split 7" with voice of the seven woods '' (great pop supplement)
*'' split 7" with wooden wand "swappin' " '' (great pop supplement)
*" split 7" with jerusalem and the starbaskets " (great pop supplement)
Keith Wood, along with constant foil Leon Dufficy, is Hush Arbors, and while his self-titled Ecstatic Peace! debut is not his first album by any means – he’s been at this almost ten years - it does provide the perfect introductory point to Hush Arbor’s distinctive take on psych folk. Combining the pensive songwriting of John Phillips circa Wolfking, the plaintive honesty of Neil Young, and the fishtank-gazing cacophony of Six Organs of Admittance (Wood is a frequent collaborator), Wood writes classic-sounding songs that sound readymade for AM radio, circa 1968.
These songs would play as comfortably over a scene from The Wonder Years as they would piping from a noxious chillout tent at Terrastock. There are songs here that resonate with the minor key melancholy of Bert Jansch or perhaps even Mark Kozelek, while others hint at a Wire subscriber’s Siamese Dream, all propulsive rhythms and lysergic electric guitar.
Some albums are ‘growers’ – not this one. While repeated listens reveal more and more details, as good albums should, this is also an album that commands immediate attention. Try to put it on in a crowded room – just try. You’ll have a ‘High-Fidelity-Beta-Band’ scene on your hands within two minutes.
Ecstatic Peace OCT 21
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