"Your music is beautiful". Love, Mike S. (The Waterboys)"
For samples, more pics and digital downloads of individual tracks or the albums "Above & Below"...and the EP Remix CD "The Four" ... visit this link and buy direct from CDBaby in the USA...
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We enjoy, experimenting with music from around the world. Meeting other musicians and collaborating with them has been so much fun and enriched our music.
We are pleased to present friends and musicians who join us from time to time. They are:
John Howitt. Bassman and guitarist supreme with a career in music and TV (see his site - http://www.myspace.com/johnhowittbassman) but also plays acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, bazouki mandolin and the low pipe occasionally. He is an established session player and a Warwick bass ’endorsee’. He plays the musically adaptable and expressive fretless and fretted 6 string basses.
Pete Lowe. Is also a solo artist (http://www.petelowe.net) with an established career as a solo performer, composer (including film music for which he has won a STEMRA award) and teacher of music. His flute, alto flute and soprano saxophone add a beautiful melodic tone and flavour to the music which he interprets with such grace and subtlety.
Nigel Durban: Has played drums all round the world and loves it. He has a long career drumming from skiffle to rock to jazz and the Irish Bodhran, having learned in Dublin. He adds wonderful, powerful rhythms to World Tree Music.
Lizzi Stephens. Plays the keyboard and digitial orchestra as well as backing vocals and occasional drum. She has played in Ceilidh and dance bands, folk groups and as a solo performer for many years.
Janet Lowe who has helped us with the stage and performance lighting and has become an invaluable friend and member of the band.
Last but definitely not least is the latest connection with World Tree Music - Andy Pigg who joins us from time to time assound engineer. We are eternally grateful as this is such an important part of our performance. He is an experienced sound person who specialises in the more acoustic end of music just the right person for our acoustic and electronic fusions. You can find him on MySpace, too.
As a result of working with Andy Young (http://www.myspace.com/myspace.com/rhythmofblues) and Phil Bellingham (Bodhran, acoustic guitar), we have remixed four tracks from our original CD, Above and Below. The remix includes Water Goddess, Crossing Over, The Beast Within and We Moved Through The Fayre. It is available for purchase from CD Baby (above) whether you are in the USA or the UK.
We would like to thank our good friend Adrian Wagner (www.mediaquest.co.uk) who co-produced the album, Above and Below.
To read more about the "World Tree"...try these links...
http://www.kheper.net/integral/tree.html
For a future worldbuilding project ... try these also...
http://www.orionsarm.com/ and http://www.thevenusproject.com
We would like to introduce you to THE VENUS PROJECT. This is really cool and holds out some hope for the future of the 'world tree' and the human race. Do follow this up or send us your views...
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影響
Ok - where do we start? Eclectic folk, rock, classical, poetry, story telling and world music scene? Quintessence, Caravan, Gong, Kevin Ayers, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Terry Riley, Moody Blues, Tchaikovski, Cole Porter, The Eagles, our good friend Adrian Wagner (Yes, and his great great Grandad!), Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Afro-Celts, Mannheim Steamroller, Black, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Peter Gabriel, Aimee Mann, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Loreena McKennitt, Byron, e.e. cummings, Clannad and Sarah McLachlan.
風格近似
Mostly like us, we reckon. It's Canterbury music with 'world' influences! Perhaps traces of - Loreena McKennitt, Clannad, Sarah McLachlan, Caravan, Pink Floyd, Terry Riley, Moody Blues, Sandy Denny, The Eagles, Jefferson Airplane, Eva Cassidy, Enya.
World Tree Music is a journey into love, legend and mystery through music and song. A cool rippling stream of organic and electronic sound ... a collage of energetic rhythms; topped with a voice like burnished crystal.
Gretchen is "The Voice" (Lead vocal, lyrics and melodies), John (Composition/Arrangements, Guitar and Keyboard/virtual instruments and backup Vocals).
Gnostic folk-rock fusions merging with classical influences. From electronic ambient to exciting world rhythms and songs of love, legend and mystery. The World Tree is a symbol with meaning shared across the myriad cultures of the world, merging many ancient wisdoms. We aim to fuse instruments and styles of the globe transcending national limits, space and time with hopeful and peaceful messages. We enjoy life and making music - we hope you enjoy it too!!
An old favourite "Scarborough Fayre" from our concert in Canterbury in aid of the Wildwood Trust ...
We are proud members of THE VENUS PROJECT which we believe holds out a hopeful future for the planet and the human race...
A 2,500 year old yew tree at Ulcombe Church is a mystical and spiritual setting for this video... Gretchen and John WORLD TREE MUSIC perform their version of "Greensleeves" ...
A Romantic Ballad "We Moved Through The Fayre" from our concert in Canterbury in aid of the Wildwood Trust ...
We're so pleased to have received some wonderful feedback from friends, other people and places. This is what helps keep us going ... thank you so much ...
Gretchen's version of "She Walks In Beauty" is exquisite and literally moved me to tears, making it one of my favourite songs on "Above and Below". "The Beast Within (Swallow Falls & The Afanc)" opens with and is laced throughout with a flute that Jethro Tull would envy and is accompanied by what sounds like a primal and well-traveled bodhran. Read the whole review at http://www.partyinkingston.com/music/reviews/worldtree.html
"Hello from Amsterdam World Tree. She walks in Beauty is blissful and so enchanting. Cantebury music so lovely. Welcome to where our worlds branches meet...". Pat Savage.
"...congratulations on your excellent CD!" Eric Swanopoel author of "Saving The World & Being Happy...".
"Wonderful arrangements and voice, especially on "Greensleeves" ! (I love the outfits as well)"... Alquimia.
"Your voice is a delight and the music is so soothing. Being half Irish and very aware of my ancient roots and in any case interested in history, I appreciate the musicianship. There are certain sounds that are reminiscent of long lost ages, that transcend time and place, that drift back through the centuries." Dawn Cloake.
JOIN WORLD TREE MUSIC IN THE CHALLENGE TO LEARN FROM THE MESSAGES OF PAST AGES AND THROUGH MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HARNESSED FOR HUMAN, HUMANE AND HUMANITARIAN PURPOSES (NOT PROFIT AND GREED!)... JOIN US IN THE VENUS PROJECT:
This audio / video is a
snippet from my exclusive interview conducted with Greg Allen in March
2007 on the Zest Radio Show. This is word association. We hope you find
it interesting and thought provoking.
Upon the tree of life we gaze deeply the eyes of God shine in you boldly we dare let go of the shore we float in bliss river of life ocean of love Garden of Delight
Peace and Love, Paul
Available from REAL MUSIC a magic carpet ride through the splendorous cradle of civilization featuring Omar Faruk Tekbilek . Exotic, sensual, hypnotic, mysterious, enchanting - Middle East dances with West - Blissful Joy in the Garden of Delight .
I would like to wish you a merry christmas and thank you for being my friend . I have been on here since about April/May this year and have had 6500 browsers show interest in my profile page and been introduced to about 650 friends..I have enjoyed your lovely comments and VERY interesting messages [that will always be confidential ].I hope to enjoy many more.Its great chatting to people who can be living nearby but even greater chatting to friends living so far away some in hot countries and some in cold. How the wonders of the computer bring us all so close together, what would we we do without it . Well I spose you will have a great christmas with your close friends and family and wish you all the happiness and health in the world [ and if you know someone lonely or not to well off or poorly please also wish them a merry christmas from me The Almoner of Myspace ] ....MERRY CHRISTMAS THINKING OF YOU ALWAYS XXXX TERRY X
Hello my friends what a pleasure working with you tonight. The first step of a great journey. Have a fantastic Christmas and I will see you in 2008. John
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