Ari Picker – composer/vox/guitar Drew Anagnost - cello Scott Carle - drums Mark Daumen - tuba/bells Leah Gibson - cello Will Hackney – mandolin/vox/accordion/bells/guitar/bass/cornet Seamus Kenney - trombone/accordion/bells Emma Nadeau – french horn/vox/bells/accordion Lauren Paynter - violin Alyssa Reichardt – euphonium/accordion/bells Joah Tunnell – bass/guitar/vox Jenavieve Varga - violin Kathryn Wyatt - viola
Past members:
Nate Babbs - drums Matt Bruer - banjo Liz Lamour - violin Corynn Loebs - violin Nick Morawiecki – guitar/vox/other Nikki Nieves - violin Dave Peacock - viola Neel-Gopal Sharma - viola Nicki Singleton – violin/viola Jessica Smith – bass trombone Alexandra Spalding – cello/vox Kaitlin Wolfberg - violin Ken Woodward - bass
Contact:
Band: Ari Picker - ari [at] lostinthetrees [dot] com Label: Trekky Records - info [at] trekkyrecords [dot] com Booking: Billions - butterer [at] billions [dot] com
Photos above by Agatha Donkar, Jordan Lawrence and Mike!
Influences
Film Music (Elfman, Mothersbaugh), Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, Hip-hop, other Trekky song writers. Growing old and fear of death. Love and adventure.
Sounds Like
Nothing you've heard before!
But EVERYTHING you want to hear!
"Surrounded by rich, orchestral arrangements that vary between gorgeous shimmers and unsettling bursts of shrill fury, [Picker] paints heart-wrenching portraits of a person abandoned by love and family."
-Shuffle Magazine
"An Arcadian construction of emotional wilderness hemmed by string sections [and] strummed acoustic guitars."
-The Independent
"Even when considered agianst the slew of releases Trekky Records is unleashing upon listeners this Fall, Lost In The Trees’ new album All Alone In An Empty House is a striking standout."
-The Daily Tar Heel
"With All Alone, Picker finally finds his voice, fusing elements of Appalachian folk with lush orchestral passages."
-Shuffle Magazine
"In terms of devastating emotion, nothing from this year in North Carolina can compete with the first seven songs on All Alone in an Empty House."
-The Daily Tar Heel
"Using folk-based pop songs rife with lush flourishes of orchestral texture an instrumentation as a template, Lost in the Trees creates a dynamic well suited to front-man Ari Picker's reedy soliloquies."
-Uptown Magazine
"[All Alone] takes the musical inventiveness displayed on Time Taunts Me and adds the depth of hauntingly personal lyrics and stripped-down, acoustic songs."
-Southeast Performer
"[Picker's] most personal album."
-The Herald Journal
"An almost-unbearably intimate and gorgeous body of music."
-The Burg
Lost in the Trees - Time Taunts Me EP Available now on Trekky Records.
"Orchestral and ambitious...[an] intensely lush collection."
-Pitchfork Media
"A sublime blending of Prokofiev's ''Peter and the Wolf'' with a dash of Vivaldi and the vocal stylings of a suaver Ben Gibbard from Death Cab."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Sounds a lot like the soundtrack to your favourite indie film.”
-Pop Matters
"Melodic chamber-pop that is as musically ambitious as it is lyrically precious."
-All Music Guide
"Startlingly gorgeous arrangements."
-IGN
"Truly beautiful and shyly tragic...a touching treat for all"
-Losing Today Magazine
"Sure to be the surprise of 2007."
-The Phill(er)
"Big and orchestral blend with intimate and folksy to create a compelling and vaguely menacing landscape — like dark thunder clouds rolling over meticulous fields of wheat."
-3hive
"The difficult process of reconciliation has seldom sounded so sweet."
-The Independent
"Both inspired and brilliantly original."
-Performer Magazine
"Lost in the Trees cleverly constructs an array of lively combinations of strings, samples and hand percussion."
-Alarm
"LITT's autumnal debut is dramatic and twee with earnest potential."
-Heeb
"This is the best release so far this year."
-Birmingham Weekly
"Equal parts hope and isolation to help you ease the flow of your impending emotional flashflood."
-Three Imaginary Girls
"One of the most original works I’ve heard this year."
-Berkeley Place
"I have to admit it..s really something I..m going mad about. I..m completely charmed with the sound..."
-Get Echo
"By far, one of the most engaging EPs I’ve heard this year."
-The Yellow Stereo
"Time Taunts Me is one of the most unique and beautiful things I've heard so far this year."
-Out the Other
"Vastly creative...completely solid on every level."
-Smother.net
Thanks for finding Lost in the Trees. Our record is out now on Trekky Records (www.trekkyrecords.com). If you want to read/hear more from Lost in the Trees, please find www.lostinthetrees.com.
Please find more Trekky Music at Trekkyrecords.com
Lost in the Trees - Lost in the Trees Available now on Trekky Records.
Was so pleased to see you guys at DC9 last week. And it WAS so weird...as soon as you started playing, I knew you were the band Stephanie Morgan was telling me about. Your sound is so distinct and lovely. Am buying some iTune-age as I type.
Great show on Saturday. Thanks for the info on the Angel mini-glock. I was able to find several places to get them online. Best of luck with your Summer tour!
Another memorable performance, packing the Open Eye Cafe, both inside and out. Ari and each of you in the LITT orchestra can be so very proud of the music you give.
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