tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-104638682024-03-13T15:35:31.858-07:00The Tree People chronicles"The Tree People", a vinyl album recorded in a studio in the woods in Oregon in 1979, was reissued as a CD in 2006 by Tiliqua Records of Japan and as a vinyl record by Guerssen Records of Spain in 2008. Their 2nd album "Human Voices", recorded in 1984, was reissued by Guerssen in vinyl and as a CD in 2009. The 3rd and last Tree People album, "It's My Story" was released by Guerssen in 2010. This is their story. Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-50695907674739612082015-07-15T08:53:00.000-07:002015-07-15T08:53:20.650-07:00The Tree People have a new Facebook pageThe Tree People have a new Facebook page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheTreePeopleAlbums">https://www.facebook.com/TheTreePeopleAlbums</a><div>
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Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-63468003197439577032015-07-15T08:37:00.000-07:002015-07-15T08:42:36.971-07:00Listen to some music of the Tree People and see Stephen's story and the story of the Tree People at Stephen Cohen's new website<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">listen to some music of the Tree People on Stephen Cohen's new website and hear some of Stephen's other music as well at</span><br />
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Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-196604476496474402015-03-29T00:33:00.000-07:002015-03-29T00:33:03.177-07:00"Thomas" from the Tree People album on YouTube <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Listen to <i>Thomas </i>from the Tree People <i>Human Voices</i> album from 1984 (and reissued in 2009 by Guerssen Records of Spain) on YouTube.Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-15347212171211853512014-08-28T09:58:00.000-07:002014-08-28T09:58:43.929-07:00The Tree People mentioned in yet another book.Nice writing about the Tree People in Jeanette Leach's book, <i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EoAmZf_RPGoC&pg=PA203&lpg=PA203&dq=stephen+cohen-+the+tree+people&source=bl&ots=n0CeogLnwM&sig=Nr48ErNOQS98_Qw-wXIONVuCk3E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Jlz_U7uHJYS0ggT9-ILgDg&ved=0CCUQ6AEwATgU#v=onepage&q=stephen%20cohen-%20the%20tree%20people&f=false">Seasons They Change, The Story of Acid and Psychedelic Folk.</a> </i>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-42758485568301597932013-05-07T23:57:00.001-07:002013-05-07T23:59:42.940-07:00"No More School" from the 1st album, "The Tree People" is on "12 Miles North" movie soundtrack<div class="userContentWrapper aboveUnitContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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Tree People" and then was included on the Numero Group's acoustic guitar
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School" at the 18:54 to 20:14 and 24:00 to 25:14 minute marks in the
movie. "12 Miles North is a very moving documentary about Nick Gabaldon,
a ground breaking black surfer who would paddle his surfboard 12 miles
north from Santa Monica to surf the Malibu waves.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.theinertia.com/surf/12-miles-north-nick-gabaldon-story-exclusive-online-premiere/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theinertia.com/surf/12-miles-north-nick-gabaldon-story-exclusive-online-premiere/</a><br /> 12 Miles North:</span></span></div>
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Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-25826621792813137462012-02-04T19:40:00.000-08:002012-02-04T19:43:20.737-08:00The first Tree People album gets a few pages in the book "Folk & Revival"<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> The first Tree People album gets a few pages in a wonderful new book about folk music by French authors</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bruno Meillier and Philippe Robert. It is nice to see us remembered in print!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Special thanks to my friend in France, Jaak, who translated the Tree People pages in the book from French to English for me. Here it is:.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FOLK & REVIVAL</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Tree People – <i>The Tree People</i> (Tiliqua 1979)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the music of The Tree People, a band founded in Eugene (Oregon) in 1977, there are echoes of that obscure era straddling the seventies and eighties (of the 20<sup>th</sup> century), that dark age in the grand history of folk music. Either as precursors of the renaissance of the acid folk scene that would take place 2 decades later (the lunar melodies present here are a prequel to those that would well up later on in acts such as Vetiver, Espers or Joanna Newsom), or as distant echoes of those good old hippie vibrations of 1967, the nine tracks of this eponymous self-produced first album conjure up an overall timeless impression. With the help of flutist/percussionist Jeff Stier and flutist Rachel Laderman, Stephen Cohen put himself to the task of translating the then present moment into sound. James Thornbury, who would go on to play bass in Canned Heat, joined the three of them deep in the woods, in a recording studio chosen especially to get as far away as possible from the commotion of civilization. The sound, very much akin to the one typical for some Canadian progressive folk combos, is characterized by an introspective <i>Americana</i>-like pace owing to the ethereal sound frequencies (guitars, transversal flute, recorder and xylophone), and makes the listener comfortable like when he were witnessing a ruby red and honey colored sunset. ‘Pot Of Gold’, out of an ever swelling cymbal sound and loose guitar picking supporting a comforting and hearty vocal, creeps in in a heady kind of way. The instrumental tracks ‘Opus’ and ‘Space Heater’, aside from marrying raga and blues born out of a series of <i>glissandi</i> and sitar-like strung chords, partake of a delicacy made of subtle harmonies, with the bongos and triangle tinkling acting as beacons for the powerful moments. In the background two flutes, cautious and restrained, are present in counterpoint. Then, after a melancholic guitar solo in the best of west coast traditions (Takoma scene and Ali Akbar Khan merged into one), the album ends with a return to the <i>slide</i> mode owing to the gripping modernity of ‘Bring In The Water’, in which Stephen Cohen words the need for a return to the soil so dearly chanted by many a neo-rural at the end of this first decade of the 21st Century: “… bring in the water, chop the wood, if [we] only could”. In 2007, following the reissue of their first two albums that were released shortly before the band split up in the mid-eighties, The Tree People reformed, with Stephen Cohen and Jeff Stier indulging in the recording of a third album with a limpid and clear sound the prince’s kiss brings back to life after a twenty-six year long profound sleep.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recommended listening: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Human Voices</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (1984), <i>It’s My Story</i> (2010)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">More recommended listening:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Stephen Cohen & Rich Hinrichsen, The Walking Willows, Connivence, L’Engoulevent, Les Karrik, Ptarmigan, Van Morrison</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-89785826685898712082011-10-17T14:03:00.000-07:002011-10-17T14:14:01.510-07:00The Tree People interview with Stephen Cohen in "It's Psychedelic Baby" Magazine<div class="date-outer"><h2 class="date-header"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is a nice interview in <a href="http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2011/10/tree-people-interview-with-stephen.html">It's Psychedelic Baby</a> Magazine:</span></span></h2><h2 class="date-header">Monday, October 17, 2011</h2><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=10463868&postID=8978582668589871208" name="3931162691579708850"></a> <br />
<h3 class="post-title entry-title">The Tree People interview with Stephen Cohen </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3931162691579708850"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. Thank you for taking your time to do this interview about The Tree People! First I have to ask you about your childhood and teen years. Where did you grow up and what were some of your influences?<br />
<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in the United States. I taught myself how to play guitar at the age of 14 and soon was composing music and writing songs. Just exploring the six strings and the many frets of the guitar was, and still is, where it all starts for me. As a teenager I went to the Newport Folk Festival and saw all kinds of wonderful performances there. I listened to all kinds of recorded music, everything from folk, to rock, to jazz, to classical. I attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts for 3 years and saw all kinds of wonderful local performers and bands fill the small Brandeis University Coffeehouse with some great music. But I have to say my biggest influence was, and still is, all the emotions and surprises found in daily life. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I left Brandeis University after 3 years to travel, guitar in hand, across the United States, hitchhiking, living in several “hippy” communes, and having all kinds of adventures, until settling in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I performed solo regularly at several restaurants. No album releases from that time. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">The Tree People, recorded in Eugene, Oregon soon after I moved there, was my first full length album release. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Once sitting under a tree in New Mexico, I got the inspiration to write a short, illustrated children’s book called the Tree People, and the name for the group came from that book.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I never published the book, and I have no copies of the book, just a few of the illustrations. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">4. So how did you guys came together to form the band?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I performed regularly at a place in Eugene, Oregon called the Homefried Truckstop, a coffeehouse and restaurant close to the University of Oregon that had live music 7 days a week and was quite a local hangout for musicians and music lovers at that time. I saw a wonderful musician playing recorder and percussion there a few times with several different folk bands and felt what he was doing would work well with my music. When I saw him at one of my performances, I asked him if was interested in playing music with me. His name was Jeff Stier. He had a friend, a classical flautist named Rachel Laderman, who starting rehearsing and performing with us, and the original Tree People ensemble was in place. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">5. In 1979 you released your debut. I would like if you could share a whole story about the LP. What are some of the strongest memories from recording and producing this LP?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-AMmusfGPtKNNV1u7H1EMV-HtD7Cd8EM0aAn2I3PTZwX-JX9dImL69uyMr9l2PTjsxlURRD-CkMQ4cQVStiSqikP1IS8OhSqGLDuMpm4XZtBUpOLNfjMDislpDloKW4zjVSc/s1600/703587.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic-AMmusfGPtKNNV1u7H1EMV-HtD7Cd8EM0aAn2I3PTZwX-JX9dImL69uyMr9l2PTjsxlURRD-CkMQ4cQVStiSqikP1IS8OhSqGLDuMpm4XZtBUpOLNfjMDislpDloKW4zjVSc/s400/703587.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">My debut album, The Tree People, was recorded in a studio in the woods outside of Eugene, Oregon called Rockin’ A Ranch. It was all done in a single weekend with most everything recorded live and in one or two takes, with me on acoustic guitar and voice, Jeff Stier on recorders and percussion, Rachel Laderman on flute on a few pieces, and James Thornbury (a local blues musician at the time who later toured internationally with Canned Heat and now lives in Austrulia) sitting in on electric bass on a few pieces and on slide guitar and back-up vocals on Bring in the Water. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;"> My strongest memories from that weekend were the bond I felt with the other musicians and the studio owner/engineer while making the music, and the feeling that being in a studio was home for me. And when the engineer’s wife brought us some fresh baked cookies during a break I knew for sure we were in the right place. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Where did you record it?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Rocking’ A Ranch in Greenleaf, Oregon. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What can you say about the cover artwork?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">The cover artwork was the cover of the Tree People storybook that I mentioned above.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I drew it after napping under that tree in New Mexico and imagining what the Tree People might look like. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This was a private release, right? What more can you tell me and how many copies were made?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">1,000 vinyl copies were made. We sold most of them in Eugene, at local stores and at live performances. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">6. Did you play any shows?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">We played just about everywhere you could possibly play in Eugene: at coffeehouses, University events, at festivals, and in concerts at art galleries and small concert halls. . </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">7. A few years later you released another album called Human Voices and a year or so ago you released a new album called It's My Story, which is really amazing! In the meantime you had a solo carrier and you released four albums from 1995 to 2006. Would you like to tell me about this period of your carrier?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Soon after Human Voices was released (another private release, this time released only as a cassette with 300 copies, all sold in Eugene), Jeff moved to Washington, D.C. to work in politics and that phase of the Tree People story came to an end. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I continued composing music, writing songs, performing and recording and also started making my own original sculptural percussion instruments, which I used in my performances and recordings along with my guitar and voice. I moved to Portland, Oregon in 1996 and did many performances there and also performed in concert and at festivals across the United States. I also did workshops and residencies at schools and museums and recorded several albums, including a children’s album called Here Come the Band (suitable for adults as well!). </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I am now performing and recording with Rich Hinrichsen, the double bassist who played on the 3rd and last Tree People album, It’s My Story, and we are now called THE WALKING WILLOWS (you might say an offshoot of the Tree People). Future plans include a releasing a new album by the WALKING WILLOWS, and producing and creating some creative videos of some of our new songs to put up on the web. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">I am also working on a project called the Cistern Symphony, where I am putting music, photos and video created in a cavernous Cistern with incredible echoes together into a multimedia website. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">But most of all, I just plan to create, perform and record music for as long as I can. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">9. How do you like Guerssen re-release of your albums?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Antoni and his staff at Guerssen did a fantastic job with our albums and it was a pleasure and honor to work with Guerssen. I have nothing but good things to say about Guerssen!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">A highlight was going to Spain to perform at the Musique Disperses Festival (a festival that Antoni and Guerssen Records produce) this year!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">10. Thanks for your time, would you like to add something else, perhaps?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Thank you for your time. Music is a great form of communication. I am always happy when my music can reach some far corner of the world from my little corner of the world. </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<h1><a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/artists/the-tree-people">The Tree People</a></h1><h2>It's My Story</h2><h3>(Guerssen; US: 31 Aug 2010; UK: 21 Jul 2010)</h3></div></div><div class="FeatureInformationContainerMain ArticleMeta"><h1>The Tree People It's My Story</h1><div class="ArticleByline">By <a href="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/217">Ron Hart</a> <span class="DateLine">5 April 2011</span></div></div><div class="ArticleContentContainer"><span id="aptureStartContent"></span>Known as Oregon’s forefathers of freak folk, the Tree People were recording songs of heady, rustic psychedelia in an era when skinny ties and synthesizers were the prominent means of creative expression. The trio already has a pair of mellow masterpieces under its belt in its eponymous 1979 debut and the 1983 follow-up, <i>Human Voices</i>. Now, after a three-decade break from action, the tree men return with <i>It’s My Story</i>, 12 new songs for acoustic guitar, bass, recorder, flute and percussion that fit perfectly into the mood of the modern-day freakscene made famous by the likes of Vetiver, Wooden Wand and Six Organs of Admittance. The album also pays homage to the English Canterbury movement that gave us Fairport Convention and Pentangle. Highlights include the cheeky “More Than Yoko” and a new version of their classic song “Space Heater”. <br />
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<div class="RatingContainer"><span class="TextTitle">Rating:</span><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_dark.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_8.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_light.png" /><img src="http://www.popmatters.com/images/icons/rating_light.png" /></div></div>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-53469236945946158132011-03-28T04:53:00.000-07:002011-03-28T04:55:46.819-07:00"It's My Story" now available on iTunes<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/its-my-story/id411539838?ls=1">The 3rd, and last album by the Tree People, "It's My Story", is now available for downloading at all major downloading sites, including iTunes</a>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-44291037558851865522011-03-20T09:45:00.000-07:002011-04-17T09:24:08.637-07:00Musiques Disperses Festival in Spain- the last performance under the Tree People name<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<b>Stephen Cohen</b> (with hat and scarf) just after arriving in LLeida, Spain via train from Portland to Seattle, airplane from Seattle to Amsterdam to Barcelona, and high speed train <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<b>Rich Hinrichsen </b>and Stephen in high speed train in photo above)</span> from Barcelona to Lleida, Spain, finally meets Musiques Disperses Festival director and Guessen Records executive <b>Antoni Gorgues</b> in person, after years of corresponding by e-mail and phone and releases of 3 Tree People albums by Guerssen Records.<br />
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Antoni works tirelessly to promote the music he loves through the festival and his record company. It was a highlight of the trip to meet him.<br />
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This photo was taken in front of the festival site, Cafe del Teatre.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> all photos on this post by photographer Ben Sussman. Thanks Ben, for joining us on our great adventure in Spain, and documenting it all with your wonderful photographs! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">noon rehearsal at the festival site, Cafe del Teatre, on the day of the concert</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> from left to right: <b>Hector Beberide Farrus</b>, <b>Stephen Cohen</b>, <b>Rich Hinrichsen</b> and <b>Jordi Gallen</b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We had corresponded by e-mail weeks in advance of the concert with Spanish musicians Hector and Jordi, sending music, mp3s, and talking about musical arrangements. Now we were rehearsing in person. Hector and Jordi are fantastic musicians. One observer said it sounded like we had been playing together for years. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">After the noon rehearsal, an afternoon break, and a sound check, Antoni </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">took all of us, including Douglas (of Yoga Records, visiting from Los Angeles), Alex of Guerssen Records, the sound man, all the musicians (and our photographer) to dinner. The food was delicious, the conversation lively. We then made the short walk to the festival site, Cafe del Teatre, ready to play music. </span></td></tr>
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Hector, Stephen, Rich and Jordi get into it!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The best thing about it all was meeting people in a far away land, playing with one great musician from the United States and two great musicians from Spain, and sharing the language of music with a wonderful Spanish audience.We did two curtain calls and signed many autographs after the concert. A wonderful experience!</span></span></span><br />
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Here are the songs, in order, that we performed at the Musique Disperses Festival:<br />
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<i>It’s My Story, Sliding, Pot of Gold, Let’s All Root for the Home Team, Thomas, Melody for 4, Living with the Animals, Hearing Test, No More School, More Than Yoko, The Change in Kate, Grandfather, Walking Willow Tree, Legends of the Tree People</i> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal"> curtain call: <i>Rain, Rain, Rain, Space Heater</i></div> 2nd curtain call: <i>Goodnight, goodnight</i><i> </i><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our friend Mary, originally from the United States, but living in Barcelona for years, was a real angel to us, helping us get to the train to LLeida from Barcelona, translating for us along the way, sharing her knowledge of Barcelona and the customs to be aware of in Spain, and having us over to her alley apartment in Barcelona for dinner. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stopping at the Placa de Sant Joan on the walk back to the train the day after our performance in LLeida,<br />
Rich and Stephen stop to rest, Stephen plays a song on his guitar, and some children stop to look and listen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen and Rich in alley courtyard in LLeida on the way to the train. Rich has his double bass bow in a case. The festival provided a vintage double bass for Rich to play, since, or course, his own double bass would not fit on the plane.<br />
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</tbody></table>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-1057556994771800632011-02-20T09:06:00.000-08:002011-02-20T09:35:54.915-08:00The Tree People in Spain soon!<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody" style="font-size: small;">On March 12th, the Tree People will be in Lleida, Spain performing at the Cafe del Teatre as part of the Musiques Disperses Festival with Stephen on acoustic guitar and voice, Rich on double bass and voice, along with 2 Spanish musicians, Jordi on cello, and Hector on mandolin and accordion. Photographer Ben Sussman will join us to document the event. It should be quite an experience! </span></h6><div class="mvm uiStreamAttachments clearfix" data-ft="{"type":"attach"}"><div class="UIImageBlock clearfix"><a class="external UIImageBlock_Image UIImageBlock_MED_Image" data-ft="{"type":"media"}" href="http://www.musiquesdisperses.com/programacio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title=""><img class="img" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=75cfae461d4353ac8d727d3031e9c85d&w=90&h=90&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musiquesdisperses.com%2F4b.png" /></a><br />
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<div class="mts uiAttachmentDesc">Músiques Disperses és un festival de músiques folk en tota la seva varietat, amb una lleugera tendència a la vessant més propera al rock. Programem folk-rock, psicodèlic o progressiu, però també folk de cantautor, música tradicional o qualsevol tipus de neo-folk.</div></div></div></div>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-37356723347780660372011-01-07T14:31:00.000-08:002011-01-07T22:58:27.054-08:00The Tree People's "It's My Story" on Delire Musical's top 50 albums of 2010The Tree People's "It's My Story" album is on Delire Musical's top 50 albums of 2010 list!<br />
It is nice to be appreciated in Quebec!<br />
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You can find the list in the December 21, 2010 post at <a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/">http://blog.monsieurdelire.com</a><br />
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Here is an excerpt from the post: <br />
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Sherbrooke, December 21, 2010 — The eclectic music radio show Délire Musical (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Quebec) unveiled today the 50 albums selected by its team for its special year-end show. This list culls 50 highly diverse albums in genres as widely spread as folk, post-rock, progressive rock, singer-songwriter, world music, electronica, and much more.<a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/12/le-top-50-des-musiques-electiques-2010.html"><br />
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Délire Musical focuses on all forms of creative yet accessible music, everything off the commercial paths or valuing quality and sensitivity. “2010 has been a year filled with surprises, where artists who would have normally appeared on the short list were bested by newcomers!,” explains François Couture, co-producer of the show. “Of course, we’re not saying we’ve heard everything released in 2010! These are not THE best 50 albums this year, but OUR best 50!,” adds his colleague Daniel Ouellette.Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-8075153134283713092010-12-10T12:27:00.000-08:002010-12-10T21:55:11.229-08:00Wonderful review of "It's My Story" In HI-Fi World magazine (U.K.)There is a wonderful review of our "It's My Story" album in Hi-Fi World magazine (United Kingdom). It was one of their <i>Audiophile Vinyl </i>picks, along with an Elvis reissue vinyl album- so although we never shared a stage with Elvis, we can now say we shared a page with Elvis. Here is the review of our album:<br />
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THE TREE PEOPLE<br />
<i>It's My Story</i><br />
Guerssen<br />
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I have to hold my hands up and admit that I'd never heard of this outfit before who hail from Oregon, U.S.A. After some investigations I found that they released their first album (self-titled) in 1979 and then followed that up with another ("Human Voices") five years later. I knew that teachers had long holidays, but this is ridiculous because this album is the band's third release- was it worth the wait? The current incarnation consists of Stephen Cohen (acoustic guitar), Jeff Stier (flute) and Rich Hinrichsen (double bass) with the added occasional voices of Maeve Stier and Nicole Campbell. Their music is basically folk but it's not as simple as that. There's to many tweaks in their work for them to be labelled with such a simple word. Which is why you will see the words "freak folk", "psych folk", and "alt-folk" tagged rather uncertainly to them. <i> </i><br />
<i> </i>Whatever you call them, "It's My Story" is a wholly engaging album that, right from the start, pulls you into their head space. Beautifully melodic, the album is both busy and calming in its presentation. The title track, the first on Side One, grabs you immediately with a delicious selection of hooks while the next track on the side, "Sunday", takes you on an organic ambient journey of flute, double bass and acoustic guitar. And so it goes on, mixing instrumentals and vocal tracks throughout, in a wonderfully dreamy manner. For those wondering what the band was up to during its earlier days, you can get a flavour by checking out the track "Space Heater", which sits on Side Two and is a remake of the track which appeared on their debut release. A series of complicated ideas simply executed to form a magical album.<i> </i>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-62809335936634126172010-12-04T10:11:00.000-08:002010-12-05T13:30:39.268-08:00The Tree People's last United States performance, Spain in March up next, the music will live!<img id="msbeacon" src="http://b.myspace.com/%7Emyspace/beacon/b.ashx?dsid=2&dsv=1&b=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" style="display: none; height: 0px; left: -1px; position: absolute; top: -1px; width: 0px;" /> <header class="globalHeader"> </header><br />
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<div class="layout profileLayout"><div class="row row1 rowPath1 rowDepth0" id="row1"><div class="column column0 columnPath1_0 columnDepth1 firstColumn allowDrop" id="col1_0"><div class="module module1 columnModule0 odd SingleBlogModule" data-area="Profiles" data-mt="98"><div class="moduleMid"><div class="moduleMid1"><div class="moduleMid2"><div class="moduleBody"><div class="post blogEntry" id="post-541071664"><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><time class="post-date"></time>We gave our last United States performance as the Tree People at the Old Church in Portland on November 21, 2010. Our next, and last performance as the Tree People will be at the Musiques Disperses Festival in Spain on March 12th, 2011. Jeff Stier, who was with me, one of the two original founding members of the Tree People, is retiring from the performing life. Jeff brilliantly played recorders, flute and percussion on our 3 Tree People albums. He was part of so many performances and concerts during the 2 performing lives of the Tree People, from 1978 till 1985 and from late 2007 till early 2011. It has been an honor to collaborate with this intelligent and talented man in creating the Tree People music. I am so glad that the worldwide discovery or the Tree People led to our second performing and recording life. And I am so happy we could create our third, and we think best album, "It's My Story", an album Jeff considers a legacy, a real part of his life he can pass on to his young daughter. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">But the music will live on! I will continue to create, perform, and record music as long as I live. Me and Tree People double bass player Rich Hinrichsen are forming a new ensemble with a new name, new members, and new music, with plenty of Tree People songs thrown in for good measure. And we are just getting warmed up on promoting and sharing this last Tree People album.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">But back to the concert at the Old Church: It was a cold and rainy evening with a threat of snow in the air. But inside the warmth of the Old Church, a old style concert hall with perfect concert hall acoustics, we played a totally acoustic set of music from all 3 Tree People albums to a perfect listening audience. Our program included No More School, Sliding, Pot of Gold, the Pineapple Song and Morning Song from the 1st album; Thomas, Rain, Rain, and 3 Dances from the 2nd album, and It's My Story, Living with the Animals, x times y, Sunday, More than Yoko, Melody for 3, Legends of the Tree People, and Space Heater from the new album. It was a big thrill to have vocalist Nicole Campbell (a great singer-songwriter, musician in her own right) join us on It's My Story and Living with the Animals- she sang her parts beautifully! And as always, I felt I had the best seat in the house, where I could hear and see Jeff on my left and Rich on my right! </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Stephen Cohen, December, 2010</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">In attendance was Tony Coulter, a WFMU (a wonderful radio station that can be heard in the New York City area) ,music host and blogger who has recently moved to Portland. </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Here the blog (which has mp3s from our 2nd and 3rd albums) he posted after the concert on WFMU's Beware of the Blog: </div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br />
</div><div><div> Next up is a wonderful Oregon group (based initially in Eugene, and then in Portland), whose two founding members -- Stephen Cohen (guitar, vocals) and Jeff Stier (flute, recorder, percussion) -- have developed their own subtle and refined, yet emotionally gripping brand of psych folk. The band's first LP, self-titled and from 1979, has slowly built a well-deserved reputation, and on its reissue it got a fair amount of airplay on WFMU (as you can see <a href="http://www.msplinks.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" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>). The group's second and third albums, though, have garnered comparatively little attention -- and no hearing on FMU. This seems to me to likely be for two reasons: the second album -- <i>Human Voices</i>, from 1984 -- originally appeared only as a limited-edition cassette, and thus made no impact whatever outside of Eugene; while the third album, <i>It's My Story</i>, came out just this year, after a 26-year gap. Frankly, many fans of the early material would probably assume that the group couldn't possibly be as good as it used to be -- but it is ... and the proof is below. </div><div>Sadly, the Tree People broke up almost as soon as their new album was released -- Jeff Stier has decided to retire from performance. Stephen Cohen, always the principal songwriter, and bassist Rich Hinrichsen do plan to continue with new collaborators under a new name, however (you can keep abreast of developments <a href="http://www.myspace.com/threehandstephen" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>). For my part, I'm just glad I was able to catch the group's final U.S. concert -- which, oddly, doubled as a CD-release event. Wish you could have been there.</div><div>The Tree People: <i>Human Voices</i> (1984/ RE: Guerssen, 2009) cassette, vinyl, CD<br />
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</ul>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-31566215912329757352010-09-01T11:55:00.000-07:002010-11-20T16:42:42.850-08:00The Tree People's new album, "It's My Story" now released!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjKCza1qVUSMKOLL-rCjaZOGFLia9lqHc_nkBcgb_5zpVagiRSGaAKogc2FPaTWZ9gvzCvdEJ2UYnjWswlTarOCu-mwQZnj_JzPOlIOz4TTT2J9-oIvNa2kL2-gBXeWLLwv4iPA/s1600/cover+for+The+Tree+People+It%27s+My+Story+Album.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5512025541749308162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjKCza1qVUSMKOLL-rCjaZOGFLia9lqHc_nkBcgb_5zpVagiRSGaAKogc2FPaTWZ9gvzCvdEJ2UYnjWswlTarOCu-mwQZnj_JzPOlIOz4TTT2J9-oIvNa2kL2-gBXeWLLwv4iPA/s320/cover+for+The+Tree+People+It%27s+My+Story+Album.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
2010-08-28<br />
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We are very, very happy to announce the August 31st, 2010 release of the new album by The Tree People, "It's My Story", by <a href="http://www.guerssen.com/">Guerssen Records</a> of Spain!<br />
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THE TREE PEOPLE<br />
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Title.<br />
It's my story<br />
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Format. LP, CD<br />
Label. GUERSSEN<br />
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Description. Fathers of freak folk / folk psych pioneers The Tree People have incredibly made it again.<br />
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Responsible of two awesome works in the late 70's and early 80's, here they are now with a new album and we can tell you sound exactly as they did 30 years ago. This could be their best work ever. Mellow, tender freak folk with acoustic guitar, double bass, recorder, flute and percussion.<br />
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Eleven new tracks, plus a new version of '' Space heater'' which was in their 1979 debut.<br />
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Includes insert with photos and liners by folk- psych connoisseur Gerald Van Waes.<br />
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Here are the liner notes by Gerald Van Waes, which also, along with reviews of the 2 earlier albums by The Tree People, can be found on his site, <br />
<div class="extra" style="display: inline; margin-right: 5px;"><a class="gl" href="http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/TreePeople.html" target="_blank">http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/TreePeople.html</a> <a class="sim" href="http://search.earthlink.net/search/track?id=1010742&vars=area,q,style&url=/search&area=earthlink-ws&style=&q=related:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychedelicfolk.com%2FTreePeople.html"><br />
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<div style="color: black;"><span class="size10 Helvetica10"><i>Guerssen Rec.</i></span><span class="size10 Helvetica10"><img alt="" border="0" class="lpxtab" src="http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/tp.gif" width="30" /><img alt="" border="0" class="lpxtab" src="http://www.psychedelicfolk.com/tp.gif" width="30" /> </span><span class="size10 Helvetica10"><b>The Tree People</b></span><span class="size10 Helvetica10"> : It's My Story (US,2010)****</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 Helvetica10"><br />
</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 Tahoma10">A few years ago Johan Wellens from Tiliqua Records (at that time living in Tokyo, but he was an Antwerp friend of mine before he left) told me, knowing I loved the acid folk genre, I should check out Tree People. For him their albums were amongst his favourites of the genre and he was going to rerelease their first album. Also the second album was going to be released on the label too but Guerssen took over the job, and now we have this, third album which fitted perfectly with the previous recordings. In fact it might even be the best of the three. And that is a strange thing because it is recorded some 31 years later as the first album without having lost any of its early charm. I did not even realise when I first heard the master that I was listening to a new recording at all!</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 Tahoma10"><br />
</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 Tahoma10">One of the elements which I liked very much from the beginning are the open, natural improvisations, leading to the more epic moments of songs, which reminded me like in the first album also of Ptarmigan, which I took as an example because such calm, breathy, natural landscapes of atmospheres working like breathing seashores around islands of songs are rarely dug out as inspirational sources in musical albums. These pieces are built from picking, double bass, glockenspiel and marvellous flute improvisations. The songs have touches of humour before they start like this child imitating an old women or the dog barking its share into the song, but also the songs themselves take life from the lightest side of seriousness. One of Stephen Cohen’s stronger later songs from his Stephen and the Talk Talk band reappears here as a perfect introduction as if saying musicians want to share the music. They have to share them like stories. Whatever people do with them does not matter. These stories take their own life. Stephen Cohen after Tree People (before the group was re-established again just recently) had gained experience in the narrative and epic field, after having worked with children and made also an album with songs for them (perhaps a part of that period relived in some songs like in “Living with the animals”). And this experience helped in picking out the right tracks to focus upon in this album. Also a new version of "Space Heater" from the first Tree People album reappears, but for the rest they are new songs. But more amazing are the improvisations, how after all these years Stephen succeeded to make this style advance so much after all these years. Perhaps not only this is the best Tree People album, I’m sure this will be a future classic too.</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size10 Helvetica10"><br />
</span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size9 Arial9">Audio & info : </span><span class="size9 Arial9"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/musicofthetreepeople" target="_self">http://www.myspace.com/musicofthetreepeople</a></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size9 Arial9">& </span><span class="size9 Arial9"><a href="http://treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com/" target="_self">http://treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div align="justify" style="color: black;"><span class="size9 Arial9">Description on </span><span class="size9 Arial9"><a href="http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=t54f5j8775" target="_self">http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=t54f5j8775</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9"> & </span><span class="size9 Arial9"><a href="http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tree.people.the.html" target="_self">http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tree.people.the.html</a></span></div><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: #ffcc99;">Label : </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: #ffcc99;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/guerssen" target="_self">http://www.myspace.com/guerssen</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: #ffcc99;"> & </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: #ffcc99;"><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/" target="_self">http://www.guerssen.com/</a></span><br />
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And here, just in, in French and English, from the <a href="http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2010/08/2010-08-28-tree-people-sourdeline-mixed.html%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20">Monsieur Delire</a> website: <br />
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THE TREE PEOPLE / It’s My Story (Guerssen - merci à/thanks to Forced Exposure)<br />
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J’ai pleuré de joie en écoutant It’s My Story. Sans blague. La simple existence de ce disque m’émeut. J’ai adoré le deuxième album de The Tree People, une cassette du début des années 80 rééditée par Guerssen l’an dernier. Et voilà que, suite au succès d’estime de la réédition des deux seuls albums du groupe, le trio de l’Oregon s’est reformé. Et ce tout nouveau disque efface nonchalamment 30 ans d’inactivité (du moins sur disque). Stephen Cohen a toujours cette voix innocente d’enfant émerveillé par les banalités de la vie. Les arrangements (souvent guitare acoustique/flûte/contrebasse) sont encore aussi légers, tendres et d’un mélodisme intemporel. C’est beau, c’est rêvé, c’est impossible, et pourtant il est là, ce disque, je l’écoute, il existe, contre toute attente. Encore! Je t’en prie, Stephen, raconte-nous quelques histoires de plus! [Ci-dessous: Un extrait de “More Than Yoko”.]<br />
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Damn, I actually cried while listening to It’s My Story. No kidding. The very existence of this record moves me to tears. I love The Tree People’s second album, a cassette form the early ‘80s, reissued last year by Guerssen. And now, due to the critical praise for the reissue of the band’s two albums, the Oregon trio has reconvened. AND this new record effortlessly bridges the 30-year gap. Stephen Cohen still has this wonderfully innocent voice of child in wonderment of life’s simplest things. And the arrangements (usually, acoustic guitar/flute/doublebass) are still as light, tender, and timelessly melodic as ever. It’s beautiful, it’s a dream come true, it’s impossible, and yet it’s here, in my hands, I’m listening to it, it exists against all odds and it’s JUST AS GOOD as the music they were doing three decades ago. More! I want more! Please, Stephen, tell us more of your stories! <br />
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A sound clip from “<a href="http://www.honestjons.com/media/The%20Tree%20People/It%27s%20My%20Story/preview/03.Tree.mp3">More than Yoko</a>.”<br />
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and here, Casey Jarman's post about <em>More than Yoko</em> on the Willamette Week website:<br />
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The Tree People, “More than Yoko,” It’s My Story (Guerssen)<br />
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November 19th, 2010 [3:46PM] Posted by: Casey Jarman <br />
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It’s hard to set a poem to a song and not have it just sound like a poem and a song, competing for attention. The Tree People manage it on “More than Yoko.” I’m a big fan of Stephen Cohen’s delivery, and he’s all alone on this particular tune, so he gets to set the pace and the tone with just his guitar and his vocals. It’s a little moment, one imagines the exchange taking place under covers in a warm room with rain falling outside. Or maybe in the car on the way to the airport (because no one says goodbye AT the airport anymore. In that regard, the terrorists have won).<br />
Keeping my thoughts short and sweet here (like the song), but you really should check out the Tree People.<br />
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and here is Casey Jarman's review of It's My Story in Willamette Week:<br />
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The Tree People It’s My Story (Guerssen) <br />
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[MINIMAL FOLK] Following up a great album is hard to do. Following it up after a 26-year recording hiatus is just dumb. And yet, the Tree People have picked up right where they left off. The Portland-via-Eugene psychedelic folk group’s reunion disc, It’s My Story, is an album that showcases the same off-kilter beauty of its predecessor, Human Voices, a disc released in 1984 and widely considered a lost folk gem until its reissue last year. <br />
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The Tree People are a hard outfit to explain, because on paper the music sounds like your standard country fair fare: They’re called the Tree People, for chrissakes, and the instrumentation includes stand-up bass, panpipes, penny whistle and “throat singing.” But the band—multi-instrumentalists Stephen Cohen, Jeff Stier and Rich Hinrichsen—share a vision that’s more Sendak than Tolkien, and more Van Morrison than Donovan. <br />
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This is especially true of the vocal tracks: The title track proves that the group’s singer-songwriter, Cohen (a guy who can pull off a beret), remains an expert of vocal pacing and delivery. “The Change in Kate” has the jazzy feel of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” (“You can hear soulful singing when she talks/ You can see joyous dancing where she walks,” he sings) without the heroin-chic. Cohen’s strength is in a childlike wonder and charm that hasn’t diluted over the years. <br />
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In fact, if the disc has a weakness, it’s that we could use a little more of Cohen’s striking vocals. “X Times Y”—a Danny Elfman-esque psych-folk instrumental with strings that sound like pigeons overhead or the upstairs neighbors’ squeaky box spring—fares well without a voice, as does the touching “Melody for 3,” but “Sunday” and “Hearing Test” feel like freak-funk jams without the funk, and will probably leave pop-oriented listeners hitting skip. Still, Cohen uses his limited time on the mic to its fullest. “More Than Yoko” is a 30-word beat poem set to song, and it comprises two of the album’s strongest minutes—another reason the Tree People deserve your attention. CASEY JARMAN.<br />
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and here is Barbara Mitchell's review in the Oregonian:<br />
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The Return of Tree People <br />
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Published: Friday, November 12, 2010, 5:09 AM <br />
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Barbara Mitchell, Special to The Oregonian <br />
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There's a platitude that holds that everything happens at the right time, in the right place and for the right reason. It's taken 26 years for the Tree People to release a third album, but "It's My Story" feels like it's been delivered exactly on time. <br />
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Devendra Banhart and his cohorts may have revitalized the genre, but freak/acid-folk has deep roots -- roots that wrap around the Tree People, who released their first album way back in 1979. <br />
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While a lot has changed in the world at large, time has stood still in the best possible way in this kingdom. Finger-picked guitar, simple lyrics and whimsical flute/recorder lines create an alternate world of innocence and improvisation saturated by love and nature. <br />
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Mainstays Stephen Cohen and Jeff Stier reunited in 2007, but there's a lot that could be attributed to 1967 here. Like a time machine devoted to transporting the listener back to a kinder, gentler, more wide-eyed age, this is a ticket to the Autumn of Love -- there's both beauty and sadness in the instrumental tracks, and Cohen's almost childlike vocals carry a weight (and a hope) that scores an emotional, complex bulls-eye. <br />
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Cohen intones on "Legends of the Tree People." If you're allergic to patchouli, there's nothing to see here. If part of you secretly yearns for a positive pied piper to help you transcend the here and now, you should reacquaint yourself with the Tree People. <br />
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-- Barbara MitchellStephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-82315887301136339902010-08-12T11:50:00.000-07:002010-10-26T13:00:08.331-07:00The Tree People and friends descend into the Cistern<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">These photos of the Dan Harpole Cistern are from the <a href="http://www.centrum.org/residencies/cistern.html">Centrum</a> website.</span><br />
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As part of a wonderful Tree People <a href="http://www.centrum.org/residencies">Centrum Creative Residency</a>, where we spent 5 very special days creating, rehearsing, recording and performing music, two of the Tree People (Stephen Cohen and Rich Hinrichsen) and friends (Bruce Cowan and Mike Naughton) descended into the <a href="http://www.centrum.org/residencies/cistern.html">Dan Harpole Cistern</a> at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington. <br />
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After some experimentation of the echoes and with the sound possibilities of the Cistern, we were able to spontaneously create and record a piece of music with voices and found objects in the Cistern that will be the first movement of a Cistern Symphony that we will plan to complete in the next year. The piece starts with Bruce (Bruce becomes the lead found horn player on the piece) blowing into a metal tube he found on the floor of the Cistern and it continues with Stephen (Stephen becomes the lead found percussionist on the piece) dropping various pieces of metal found on the Cistern floor back on the floor, while Rich, Bruce (Rich and Bruce become the lead voices on the piece), Mike and Stephen engage in chanting, and it proceeds from there, with the 4 participants using their voices and any scrap metal they can find to move the piece forward. <br />
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It was all recorded on a hand held recording device that Rich had fortunately purchased just a week before our residency. And it all happens because of the fantastic acoustics and spirit inside the Cistern. And it could not have happened without <a href="http://www.centrum.org/residencies">Centrum</a>. Thanks also go out to Deborah Petersen, who kept watch from above, and the Fort Worden ranger who opened the entrance to the Cistern before our descent in and closed it after our descent out. Tree People member Rich Hinrichsen said later that the descent into the Cistern was was one of his best musical experiences ever.<br />
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Here is a video of our first Cistern experience: <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxjyA6rN1ktCROArOz8mRScHcstzxutMa27hSIJvFK_2UBg3CMQQgpjGqN5PSqUcC1CW_Gt-2azVmU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>You can hear the first movement of the Cistern Symphony at our new <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1634856463#%21/pages/The-Tree-People-and-friends-descend-into-the-Cistern/129352743777082?ref=sgm">facebook music page documenting the creation of the Cistern Symphony</a>. You can also hear it at our <a href="http://myspace.com/musicofthetreepeople">myspace page</a>: it is the 10th piece of music on the page. <br />
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We plan to complete a Cistern Symphony by composing, creating and recording several more movements, instrumental and vocal, in 2011, with several more guest artists joining us in our second descent into the Cistern.Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-49868241937322709232010-06-27T23:44:00.000-07:002010-06-28T00:41:33.548-07:00New Tree People album, "It's My Story" to be released soon by Guerssen Records<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzB4_tsW_qFkEpXsZe0CMQc5Dx5WCQjirvQdWEk8ur0RXcSEFfsC03Wg7j8M-S8wW5SjxK9uWWmuZBWF5zNgRlJcE0YveCq_kTxhNc_0sEU0vhoJlfjkjC0vYs0Alaa3XssuXLw/s1600/cover+for+The+Tree+People+It%27s+My+Story+Album.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzB4_tsW_qFkEpXsZe0CMQc5Dx5WCQjirvQdWEk8ur0RXcSEFfsC03Wg7j8M-S8wW5SjxK9uWWmuZBWF5zNgRlJcE0YveCq_kTxhNc_0sEU0vhoJlfjkjC0vYs0Alaa3XssuXLw/s320/cover+for+The+Tree+People+It%27s+My+Story+Album.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487717553457743266" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.guerssen.com">Guerssen Records</a> is now working on the release of our new album, <span style="font-style: italic;">It's My Story. </span><br />Printing and pressing of the vinyl album begins this week, with work on the CD soon to follow.<br />Antoni and his wonderful staff at <a href="http://www.guerssen.com">Guerssen Records</a> in Spain, plus our stellar cast of studio engineers, photographers and others here in the United States have made this all possible. We are very happy with this new work. Now, after two recent reissue albums, we are so excited that the first new Tree People album in 26 years will see the light of day this year!<br /></span></span>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-42868389491931139242010-04-25T17:24:00.000-07:002010-08-23T00:39:21.067-07:00The Tree People on myspace, The Tree People then and nowThe Tree People are now on <a href="http://myspace.com/musicofthetreepeople">myspace</a>!<br />Why? Another way to communicate with everybody.<br /><br />On our first go round some years back, there was no <a href="http://myspace.com/musicofthetreepeople">myspace</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/TheTreePeople">no twitter</a>, no <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1634856463#!/pages/The-Tree-People-and-friends-descend-into-the-Cistern/129352743777082?ref=sgm">facebook</a>,<br />no internet. We just made our connections locally using the telephone, the mail, and doing a lot of things in person. Now, thanks to the internet we have been able to work with nice independent record companies, first in Japan with Tiliqua, now in Spain with Guerssen, and we have been able to start getting our music out to a wider audience.<br />What has not changed is live performances- there is still nothing like filling the air with music in a room or field full of kindred spirits.Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-64626000920656976812009-12-23T09:09:00.000-08:002009-12-23T09:44:33.518-08:00"Grandfather" from "Human Voices" on Anthology's Top 50 songs for 2009Our "Human Voices" reissue album continues to find its way into some "Best of 2009" lists. "Grandfather" from "Human Voices" is listed as the number 8 song in Anthology Recordings Top 50 Songs for 2009. When we originally recorded this album in 1984 and released just 300 limited edition cassettes in Eugene, Oregon, we knew we had some of our best work completed, but didn't know if very many people would ever hear it. <br />Now 25 years later, some people are hearing it, thanks to the Guerssen Records CD and vinyl reissues. We love those nice surprises that life can sometimes bring! <br /> <br /><br />posted 12/22/2009 3:19:01 PM<br />Anthology's Top 50 Songs for 2009<br />by stormchild<br /><br />As we near the completion of a great year here at Anthology, we'd like to share with you some of our favorite tracks from reissues we've released throughout the 2009 year. It was extremely difficult to only pick 50 gems from our 300+ releases from this year, but we sure had a blast making this list and we hope you enjoy! Be sure to check us out in the new year for more reissues and rarities...<br /><br />HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ANTHOLOGY!!!<br /><br /><br />50. Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox<br />"Toucan Ocean"<br /><br />49. Perry Leopold - Experiment In Metaphysics<br />"And Then The Snow Came"<br /><br />48. Ray Camacho And The Teardrops - The Best Of Ray Camacho And The Teardops<br />"It's Time For Me To Love You"<br /><br />47. Collage - s/t<br />"1-2-3"<br /><br />46. Linval Thompson - Whip Them King Tubby!<br />"Everybody's Got To Be Free"<br /><br />45. Big Boy Pete - The Margetson Demos<br />"My Love Is Like A Spaceship"<br /><br />44. Marc Mundy - s/t<br />"How Can I Marry This Language"<br /><br />43. Loop - Fade Out<br />"Black Sun"<br /><br />42. Wasted Youth - Memorialize<br />"Wildlife"<br /><br />41. Marine Girls - Lazy Ways / Beach Party<br />"In Love"<br /><br />40 Horses - s/t<br />"Birdie In A Cage"<br /><br />39. Ruthann Friedman - Hurried Life: Lost Recordings 1965-1971<br />"Windy"<br /><br />38. Colin Newman - Commercial Suicide<br />"I'm Still Here"<br /><br />37. Bob Lind - Since There Were Circles<br />"City Scenes"<br /><br />36. Cooley Munson - In Debt<br />"Sightly Sue"<br /><br />35. Traffic Sound - s/t<br />"Yesterday's Game"<br /><br />34. The Factory - Path Through the Forest<br />"Try A Little Sunshine"<br /><br />33. Dave Bixby - Ode To Quetzalcoatl<br />"Drug Song"<br /><br />32. Van Duren - Are You Serious?<br />"Grow Yourself Up"<br /><br />31. VA - Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk And Soul 1965-1975<br />Robbie Hill's Family Affair - "I Just Want To Be (Like Myself)"<br /><br />30. Stack - Above All<br />"Do It"<br /><br />29. Space Art - Trip In The Center Head<br />"Speedway"<br /><br />28. Luie Luie - Touchy<br />"El Touchy"<br /><br />27. Jack Blanchard And Misty Morgan - Life And Death (And Almost Everything Else)<br />"Yellow Bellied Sapsucker"<br /><br />26. Charlie Tweddle - Fantastic Greatest Hits<br />"Untitled-2"<br /><br />25. Andy Goldner - Infinity<br />"All Those Lives"<br /><br />24. VA - Tape #1<br />Mofungo - "Speed"<br /><br />23. La Sonora de Lucho Macedo - Vol. 1 - King on Mambos, Guarachas, Descargas And Cumbias<br />"Fue En La Playa"<br /><br />22. Rodriguez - Cold Fact<br />"Rich Folks Hoax"<br /><br />21. Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited - Gwindingwi Rine Shumba<br />"Shumba"<br /><br />20. Sandy Bull - Still Valentines Day, 1969, Live At The Matrix, San Francisco<br />"No Deposit No Return Blues"<br /><br />19. Warlus - Songs<br />"Girl Like You"<br /><br />18. Bruce Haack - Haackula<br />"Party Machine"<br /><br />17. Exmagma - Exmagma And Goldball<br />"Habits"<br /><br />16. Fifty Foot Hose - Live In San Francisco: March 16, 2003<br />"If Not This Time"<br /><br />15. Pau Riba - Pau Riba / Pau I Jordi<br />"Taxista"<br /><br />14. Fox - s/t<br />"The Juggler"<br /><br />13. Malvina Reynolds - s/t<br />"The Albatross"<br /><br />12. Indestructible Beat - The Broad Church Of The Indestructible Beat<br />"When The Oil Runs Out"<br /><br />11. Simon Finn - Pass The Distance<br />"Jerusalem"<br /><br />10. Prefab Messiahs - Devolver<br />"The 16th Track"<br /><br />9. The Newtown Neurotics - Live At Brunel University, England<br />"Airstrip One"<br /> <br />8. Tree People - Human Voices<br />"Grandfather"<br /><br />7. Bill Quick - Maravillosa Gente<br />"Beautiful People"<br /><br />6. Archaia - s/t<br />"Sur Les Trances Du Vieux Roy"<br /><br />5. Househunters - Feeding Frenzy<br />"Don't Look Back"<br /><br />4. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms<br />"Chimacum Rain"<br /><br />3. Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely<br />"Playboy Of The Western World"<br /><br />2. Simply Saucer - Saucerland<br />"Clearly Invisible - 1975"<br /><br />1. Telegraph Avenue - Volume 2<br />"Tookie Tookie"Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-74224035988286688532009-12-22T13:42:00.000-08:002009-12-22T14:10:54.547-08:00Tree People "Human Voices" reissue on top 50 list, Delire Musical, CFLX- FM QuebecBelow is the Tree People "Human Voices" reissue album in a top 50 list in Canada. <br />Maybe one day a Tree People tour in Canada is in order!<br /><br />2009-12-22<br />Le Top 50 des musiques éclectiques 2009 de DM / DM's 2009 Eclectic Top 50<br />Libellés : Délire Musical, Délire Musical - Top 50, Délire Musical - Top 50 - 2009<br /><br />[English & list lower]<br /><br /><br />Sherbrooke, le 22 décembre 2009 — L’émission radiophonique éclectique Délire Musical (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Québec) annonce aujourd’hui la liste des 50 disques retenus par son équipe pour son émission de fin d’année. Cette liste regroupe 50 titres aussi variés qu’étonnants, dans des genres disparates comme le folk, le post-rock, le rock progressif, la chanson, les musiques du monde, l’électronique et bien plus.<br /><br />Délire Musical s’intéresse à toutes les musiques créatives mais accessibles, tout ce qui sort des sentiers battus ou qui fait preuve de qualité et de sensibilité. « Évidemment, nous ne prétendons pas avoir tout entendu ce qui s’est fait en 2009!, souligne François Couture, coréalisateur de l’émission. Ce ne sont pas LES 50 meilleurs disques de l’année, mais bien NOS 50 meilleurs! » « Et 2009 a été particulièrement relevée; plusieurs de nos artistes favoris ont publié cette année », renchérit Daniel Ouellette, l’autre coréalisateur.<br /><br />Une édition spéciale de trois heures de Délire Musical sera diffusée ce soir (22 décembre), de 19 h à 22 h (heure de l’Est), sur les ondes de CFLX. Messieurs Couture et Ouellette y improviseront une sélection musicale à partir des 50 disques en question, dont la liste est publiée ce matin sur le blogue Monsieur Délire (blog.monsieurdelire.com). On peut syntoniser CFLX au 95,5 FM dans la région de Sherbrooke ou sur le web au www.cflx.qc.ca.<br /><br /><br />Sherbrooke, December 22, 2009 — The eclectic music radio show Délire Musical (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Quebec) unveiled today the list of the 50 albums selected by its team for its special year-end show. This list culls 50 highly diverse albums in genres as widely spread as folk, post-rock, progressive rock, singer-songwriter, world music, electronica, and much more.<br /><br />Délire Musical focuses on all forms of creative yet accessible music, everything off the commercial paths or valuing quality and sensitivity. “Of course, we’re not saying we’ve heard everything released in 2009! These are not THE best 50 albums this year, but OUR best 50!”, explains François Couture, co-producer of the show. “And 2009 proved to be a stand-out year, with several of our personal favorite artists releasing albums this year”, adds his colleague Daniel Ouellette.<br /><br />A special three-hour edition of Délire Musical will be broadcast tonight (December 22), from 7 pm to 10 pm (EST), on CFLX. Couture and Oueillette will be improvising a playlist from the 50 albums selected, a list of which was posted this morning on the French/English blog Monsieur Délire (blog.monsieurdelire.com). You can tune in to CFLX at 95.5 FM in the Sherbrooke area, or anywhere over the web at www.cflx.qc.ca.<br /><br /><br />Les 50 meilleurs disques de l’année 2009 selon Délire Musical<br /><br />Délire Musical's 2009 Eclectic Music Top 50<br /><br />Format des notices : Artiste Titre Étiquette<br /><br />Nouveautés et rééditions combinées. Présentation par ordre alphabétique.<br /><br />Reference format: Artist Title Label<br /><br />New releases and new reissues combined. Alphabetical order.<br /><br />Artistes variés/Various artists An Outbreak of Twangin’ Psychic Circle<br /><br />Artistes variés/Various artists Dante’s Inferno (The Divine Comedy - Part I) Musea<br /><br />Artistes variés/Various artists Music for Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds for the Connoisseur Psychic Circle<br /><br />Anthony & The Johnsons The Crying Light Secretely Canadian<br /><br />Balmorhea All is Wild, All is Silent Western Vinyl<br /><br />Beat Circus Boy from Black Mountain Cuneiform<br /><br />Bird, Andrew Noble Beast Fat Possum Records<br /><br />The Black Heart Procession Six Temporary Residence<br /><br />Chance:Risiko Sleep Talking altrOck<br /><br />Cordâme Migration Malasartes Musique<br /><br />Do Make Say Think Other Truths Constellation<br /><br />Dial M for Murder! Fiction of Her Dreams Tapete Records<br /><br />Earth Explorer, The TEE Musea/Poseidon<br /><br />Embassadors, The Coptic Dub Nonplace<br /><br />Falaise, Bernard - Frank Martel À l’école du ara Monsieur Fauteux m’entendez-vous?<br /><br />Finn. The Best Low-Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own Erased Tapes<br /><br />Flippers, Los Pronto viviremos un mundo mucho mejor Guerssen<br /><br />God is an Astronaut God is an Astronaut Revive Records<br /><br />Gong 2032 G-Wave<br /><br />Hammill, Peter Thin Air Fie!<br /><br />The Hylozoists L’île de Sept Villes Outside Music<br /><br />IQ Frequency InsideOut<br /><br />Jono El Grande Neo Dada Rune Grammofon<br /><br />KTU Quiver 7d Media<br /><br />Late Call, The Leaving Notes Tapete Records<br /><br />Magma Ëmëhntëtt-Rê Seventh Records<br /><br />Matthews, Iain & Searing Quartet Joy Mining Fledg’ling<br /><br />Minimum Vital Capitaines Musea<br /><br />Mindflower Little enchanted void Musea<br /><br />Miriodor Avanti! Cuneiform<br /><br />Moraine Manifest Density Moonjune<br /><br />Múm Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know Euphono Records<br /><br />Neuburg, Amy X & The Cello ChiXtet The Secret Language of Subways Min Max Music<br /><br />OSI Blood InsideOut<br /><br />Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree Snapper<br /><br />Roshi feat. Pars Radio The Sky and the Caspian Sea Geo Records<br /><br />Rotfront Emigrantski Raggamuffin Essay<br /><br />Sebkha-Chott De la persistance de la mythologie chotienne en ??? vélos Musea Parallele<br /><br />Sharcüt Sharcüt ind.<br /><br />SimakDialog Demi Masa Moonjune<br /><br />Sinier, Raoul Tremens Industry Ad Noiseam<br /><br />Sloche Stadaconé ProgQuébec<br /><br />Spevack, Ysanne - Philip Clemo Soundzero ind.<br /><br />Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 3 Rune Grammofon<br /><br />Tinariwen Imidiwan: Companion Outside Music<br /><br />Tree People, The Human Voices Guerssen<br /><br />Trembling Bells Carbeth Honest Jons Records<br /><br />Vialka Succès planétaire international Vialka<br /><br />Watson, Patrick Wooden Arms Secret City<br /><br />Wilson, Steven Insurgentes kscope<br /><br />Publié par Monsieur Délire à 7:59 AMStephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-61987184556165629632009-12-06T21:07:00.000-08:002009-12-22T14:04:53.368-08:00The Tree People's "Human Voices" on New Yorker writer Sasha Frere-Jones' Best of 2009 list!<h3 class="title">Here is our reissue album, <span style="font-style: italic;">Human Voices</span>, at number #34 on the New Yorker magazine music writer Sasha Frere-Jones' <span style="font-style: italic;">Best of 2009</span> album list. We love the New Yorker, it is one of our favorite magazines, and we are honored to be on their music writer's list. (Note: we have been on and off this list, which changes daily, for the last few weeks, but we were definitely on the list for awhile (see list below)and that is a good thing. We hope Sasha from the New Yorker will be listening to our new album when it is released in 2010.)<br /></h3><h3 class="title"><br /></h3><h3 class="title">BEST OF 2009, Sasha Frere-Jones, December 7, 2009<br /></h3> <p><img alt="112308lolaDJstation.jpg" src="http://www.sashafrerejones.com/112308lolaDJstation.jpg" width="499" height="375" /></p> <p><b></b><b>ALBUMS</b><br />1. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sleighbellsmusic"><strong>Sleigh Bells</strong></a><br />2. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dirtyprojectors">Dirty Projectors</a></strong> “Bitte Orca” (Domino)<br />3. <strong><a href="http://the-dreammusic.com/">The-Dream</a></strong> “Love vs. Money” (Def Jam)<br />4. <strong><a href="http://www.nekocase.com/">Neko Case</a></strong> “<a href="http://www.myspace.com/nekocase">Middle Cyclone</a>” (<a href="http://www.anti.com/home/">Anti-</a>)<br />5. <strong><a href="http://www.mastodonrocks.com/">Mastodon</a></strong> “Crack The Skye” (Reprise)<br />6. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/anniemusic">Annie</a></strong> “Don’t Stop” (Totally/Smalltown Supersound)<br />7. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/micayomusic"><strong>Micachu & The Shapes</strong></a> “Jewellery” (Rough Trade)<br />8. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic">Lily Allen</a></strong> “<a href="http://www.lilyallenmusic.com/">It’s Not Me, It’s You</a>” (EMI/Capitol)<br />9. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/flightofthebehemoth">Sunn O)))</a></strong> “<a href="http://blog.southernlord.com/?p=177">Monoliths & Dimensions</a>” (Southern Lord)<br />10. <strong><a href="http://www.grizzly-bear.net/">Grizzly Bear</a></strong> “Veckatimest” (Warp)<br />11. <strong><a href="http://www.little-dragon.se/">Little Dragon</a></strong> “Machine Dreams” (<a href="http://www.peacefrog.com/">Peacefrog</a>)<br />12. <strong>Edan</strong> “<a href="http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/10/edan-echo-party">Echo Party</a>” (Five Day Weekend)<br />13. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/djsegatheblackknight">DJ Sega</a></strong> “<a href="http://3.ly/segabowery">Live at The Bowery Ballroom</a>”<br />14. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mrchopchop">Mr. Chop</a></strong> “<a href="http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/10/mr-chop-for-petes-sake">For Pete’s Sake</a>” (5DW/Now Again)<br />15. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/feverray">Fever Ray</a></strong> (<a href="http://www.rabidrecords.com/">Rabid/Mute</a>)<br />16. <strong>Raekwon</strong> “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2” (Ice H20)<br />17. <strong>Sonic Youth</strong> “The Eternal” (Matador)<br />18. <strong>Lil Wayne</strong> “<a href="http://sharebee.com/5664f70e">No Ceilings</a>” (<a href="http://www.weareyoungmoney.com/">Young Money</a>)<br />19. <strong>Harmonia & Eno ’76</strong> “Tracks & Traces” (<a href="http://www.groenland.com/2006/default.asp">Grönland</a>)<br />20. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/freddiegibbs">Freddie Gibbs</a></strong> “<a href="http://www.zshare.net/download/6522296537351138/">midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik</a>”<br />21. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/prefusion1973">Prefuse 73</a></strong> “Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian” (Warp)<br />22. <strong><a href="http://www.ladygaga.com/splash.aspx">Lady Gaga</a></strong> “The Fame” (Interscope)<br />23. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thejokerproductions">Joker</a></strong> “<a href="http://smokelessfuels.blogspot.com/2008/12/joker-purple-wow-sound-mix.html" target="_blank">Purple Wow Sound</a>”<br />24. <strong><a href="http://site.yeahyeahyeahs.com/default.aspx">Yeah Yeah Yeahs</a></strong> “<a href="http://www.myspace.com/yeahyeahyeahs">It’s Blitz!</a>” (Interscope)<br />25. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/legostar">Black To Comm</a></strong> “<a href="http://typerecords.com/releases/alphabet-1968">Alphabet 1968</a>” (Type)<br />26. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/eugenemcguinness">Eugene McGuinness</a></strong> (Domino)<br />27. <strong><a href="http://www.repeatle.com/">Mokira</a></strong> “Persona” (Type)<br />28. “<a href="http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=17577">Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Revolutionary Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement 1963-82</a>” (Soul Jazz)<br />29. <strong>Brad Paisley</strong> “American Saturday Night” (Arista)<br />30. <strong>Vowels</strong> “The Pattern Prism” (<a href="http://www.l-o-a-f.com/">LOAF</a>)<br />31. <strong><a href="http://herewegomagic.com/">Here We Go Magic</a></strong> (Western Vinyl)<br />32. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/phenomenalhandclap">The Phenomenal Handclap Band</a></strong> (<a href="http://www.friendlyfirerecordings.com/">Friendly Fire</a>)<br />33. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/djntype">N-Type</a></strong> “Rinse: 09” (Rinse FM)<br />34. <strong>The Tree People</strong> “<a href="http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=z0S3NzFJ0Dw">Human Voices</a>” (<a href="http://www.guerssen.com/">Guerssen</a>)<br />35. <strong>Air</strong> “Love 2” (Aircheology/Astralwerks)<br />36. <a href="http://www.erinmccarley.com/"><strong>Erin McCarley</strong></a> “Love, Save The Empty” (Universal Republic)<br />37. <strong><a href="http://www.vladislavdelay.com/">Vladislav Delay</a></strong> “Tummaa” (<a href="http://www.theleaflabel.com/en/index.php">Leaf</a>)<br />38. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thearchcupcake">The Arch Cupcake</a></strong> “Box of Bees” (<a href="http://www.patriarchrecordings.com/">Patriarch</a>)<br />39. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dudennem">Dude ’N Nem</a></strong> “Tinted Incubators” (TVT)<br />40. <strong><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ohsees">Thee Oh Sees</a></strong> “Help” (In The Red)<br />41. “Sensacional Soul Vol. 2: 32 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1965/1972” (<a href="http://www.vampisoul.com/home.htm">Vampisoul</a>)</p>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-66237065531172911032009-11-25T20:28:00.000-08:002009-11-25T20:45:31.032-08:00some press for Friday night's concert at Mississippi Studios<div class="content post"> <h2>Tree People, Foothills </h2><h2><span style="font-size:85%;">Mississippi Studios</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Friday, November 27th, 9 PM<span style="font-weight: normal;"> $12 21+</span></span><br /></h2><span style="font-size:130%;">(Fathers of Freak Folk) Having seen two of their early albums reissued in recent years, Oregon's own Tree People are currently transitioning from rehashing their heyday material to working on some new stuff. The spirit of the project has not changed. Early tracks "Legends of the Tree People" and "More Than Yoko" mix dry<br />acoustic guitar flourishes with other acoustic dreamy elements to create ethereal folk that feels whimsical and wierd. "She said I love you even more than Yoko could ever love John," front man Stephen Cohen sings on the latter. There's a reason the band reissues have found a cult audience, and it looks like the Legend of the Tree People will live to see a few more chapters.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Casey Jarmin, </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Willamette Week</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span><br /><h2><br /></h2><h2><a href="http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/2009/11/18/the-tree-people-back-new-album-out-next-year/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to The Tree People – Back, New Album Out Next Year">The Tree People – Back, New Album Out Next Year</a></h2> <div class="post_title_meta"> by <a href="http://oregonmusicnews.com/blog/author/bmitchell/" title="Posts by Barbara Mitchell">Barbara Mitchell</a> on November 18, 2009 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Oregon Music News</span><br /></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="http://oregonmusicnews.com/files/2009/11/the-Tree-People-in-front-of-Dead-Aunt-Thelmas-color.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8220" src="http://oregonmusicnews.com/files/2009/11/the-Tree-People-in-front-of-Dead-Aunt-Thelmas-color-300x200.jpg" alt="the Tree People in front of Dead Aunt Thelma's- color" width="300" height="200" /></a></p> <p>Portland’s acoustic-folk pioneers the Tree People are indeed back in action, and preparing to release their first album in 26 years in 2010. The band’s gently meandering tunes have been rediscovered thanks to reissues of their first two albums (originally released in ’79 and ’84) and a renewed interest in off-kilter folk music in general. Whether you were an original fan or a newbie who’s just getting hip to the band’s earthy, wide-eyed positivity, this is good news.</p> <p><strong>9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 27, Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm2cP3aYCQY4dVKsGHH-KK_y4tP7JhHeirlU0KZHL2Sr89_-mt8Oz-mcPCxCtPiopfpAiVdjHmANQLo0uRh54CYyXFsI9IaO_ZhEzL8eT_pFQVxtQ5bmoxYvC892D580ioft6ZWg/s1600-h/another+Rich+playing+double+bass+at+recording+session.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm2cP3aYCQY4dVKsGHH-KK_y4tP7JhHeirlU0KZHL2Sr89_-mt8Oz-mcPCxCtPiopfpAiVdjHmANQLo0uRh54CYyXFsI9IaO_ZhEzL8eT_pFQVxtQ5bmoxYvC892D580ioft6ZWg/s320/another+Rich+playing+double+bass+at+recording+session.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376201511162625522" border="0" /></a>musicians:<br />Stephen, Jeff and Rich<br /><br />engineer:<br />Dean BaskervilleStephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-11353235155466937242009-08-18T23:10:00.000-07:002009-08-28T23:24:06.601-07:004 recent reviews of "Human Voices"<table width="972" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="tabsbg" valign="bottom" height="30"><table style="width: 308px; height: 18px;" class="tab" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="tab_null_" id="end">Reviews are always interesting because each reviewer has unique preferences, unique frames of reference, and unique backgrounds to bring to the listening.<br />Some gravitate towards the songs and lyrics, some the instrumentals, some the core atmosphere and feeling of the album.<br /><br />Here are 4 recent reviews of <span style="font-style: italic;">Human Voices</span><br /><br /></td> </tr></tbody></table></td> <td class="tabsbg" width="170" align="right" height="30"><br /></td> <td class="tabsbg" width="5" height="30"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="shadowbar" height="16"><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" /></td> <td class="shadowbar_c" width="170" height="16"><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" /></td> <td class="shadowbar" width="5" height="16"><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" /></td> </tr></tbody></table> <!--End Tabs --> <!--Start Content Area --> <!--Wrapper Table--><!--Begin Content--><!--Begin Section Header--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="titlebar" style="padding-bottom: 15px;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td width="20"><div style="padding-top: 5px;"><a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=50:abfqxz80ldte%7ER" id="player_A" rel="album"><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/themes/cranberry/listen.gif" alt="Listen Now" title="Listen Now" style="padding-top: 0px;" /></a></div></td><td class="titlebar"><span class="title"> Human Voices</span><br /><a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kcfpxz9gldke" class="subtitle">The Tree People</a></td><td class="titlebar" align="right"><div id="sendto"><a 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/></td></tr><tr><td class="sub-text" style="padding-left: 5px;"> Human Voices</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><!--Begin Rating and Pick--><td colspan="3" class="styles_moods"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div id="left-sidebar-title"><span>Rating</span></div></td></tr><tr><td class="rating-stars"><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/pages/site/stars/st_r6.gif" alt="3.5 Stars" title="3.5 Stars" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="artist"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div id="left-sidebar-title"><span>Release Date</span></div></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td></tr><tr><td class="sub-text" style="padding-left: 5px;">Jun 23, 2009</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="artist"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div id="left-sidebar-title"><span>Recording Date</span></div></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td></tr><tr><td class="sub-text" style="padding-left: 5px;">1984</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="artist"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><div id="left-sidebar-title"><span><br />Label</span></div></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td></tr><tr><td class="sub-text" style="padding-left: 5px;">Guerssen</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><!--Begin Genre/Styles--><td colspan="3" class="artist"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><!--Genre Title--><td><br /></td></tr><tr><!--Begin Genre Listing--><td class="list-cell" style="width: 86px;"><br /></td><!--Genre Listing--></tr></tbody></table></td><!--End Genre/Styles--></tr><tr><td colspan="3" class="artist"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><img src="http://allmusic.com/i/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" /></td></tr><tr><td class="sub-text" style="padding-left: 5px;"><pre> </pre></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><!--Begin "Corrections to this Entry"--><td colspan="3" class="corrections"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><!--"Corrections to this Entry?" Title--><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><!--End "Corrections to this Entry"--></tr></tbody></table></td><!--End Left SideBar--><!--Begin Center Content--><td style="padding: 0px 10px 10px;" valign="top" width="582"><div id="results-table"><div id="bio"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td class="title" align="left">Review<br /><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td class="author" align="right">by François Couture, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Allmusic</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td><td class="author" align="right"><br /></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding-bottom: 4px;" valign="top"><p>The discreet Oregon band the Tree People released their second album, <i>Human Voices</i>, as a cassette, in 1984. A minor folk gem, it remained unavailable on CD until 2009. This album contains peculiar underground folk songs and acoustic guitar-and-flute instrumentals. The writing is delicate, careful, almost fragile at times, and features occasional dissonances and complex chords that keep the emotional charge in the murky waters of melancholia, indecision, and disappointment. There is a strong influence from <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:a9fpxq85ldfe">Pearls Before Swine</a> and the kind of American freak folk that happened outside of the major urban centers and didn't get much exposure (or get recorded) back in the day. With hindsight, one could easily put the Tree People near the roots of the tree whose branches would give birth to a flurry of groups usually lumped together (rightfully or not) under the label "New Weird Underground." That said, this trio is closer to <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:difexqr5ld0e">Simon & Garfunkel</a> than bands like <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:g9foxqwkldke">In Gowan Ring</a> or <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifexqykldhe">Jackie-O Motherfucker</a> would ever get. However, in the vocal delivery and use of recorder, one could hear a precursor of <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:g9foxqwkldke">In Gowan Ring</a> ("Opus II" falls somewhere between that band and one of <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifwxqe5ld0e">Steve Hackett</a>'s instrumental tunes). Guitarist and main composer <a href="http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:fifoxqusldhe">Stephen Cohen</a> has a pleasant understated voice, with something of a childlike tone in the phrasing, as if he was pouting. The songs "Grandfather" and "Thomas" sport exquisite melodies supporting strong lyrical content, and "If That's Entertainment" is a surprising song/tirade about what the people want and what the artist is willing to give them. On the instrumentals front, the highlights are "Things Fall Apart" and "Opus II," two tracks that could appeal to a wide range of people, if they were given exposure. <i>Human Voices</i> is not a life-changing record, but it is definitely above average, has a timeless quality (already obvious upon its release in 1984 -- rarely has an album from that year sounded so un-mid-'80s), and it sweats honesty through every pore. 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Reminding me slightly of Ptarmigan with its flute improvisations and endless shoreline waves of skimming fingerpickings in between some very strong songs I understand how Tree People became one of Johan’s (Tiliqua records) favourite bands. By some reasons the reissue now was released in Spain instead of in Japan, reaching hopefully a wider public. The two songs I meant that pop out very well in between the improvisations or drowned in its atmosphere songs are “Thomas” and “If That’s entertainment”, two very conscious songs which I think beg to be covered some day, for they will remain actual and recognisable, as strong statements. The opener, “Human voices” is the only track which has a triple voice arrangement, of an almost religious introduction. The song “Grandfather” is moving too, about someone who passed away and leaves their traces of being there amongst his family members. This song is drawn into the atmosphere, with some dreamy sadness. A very strong album, that should be regarded as a classic for the genre.</span><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="size9 Verdana9" style="color: rgb(197, 221, 151);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Audio</span> : "</span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/grandfather.mp3">grandfather</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >","</span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/human_voices.mp3">human voices</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >","</span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/opus_II.mp3">opus II</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >","</span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/thomas.mp3">thomas</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >" (or </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://localcut.wweek.com/mp3/thomas.mp3">here</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" >)<br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Info & audio</span> : </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=z0S3NzFJ0Dw">http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/release.asp?album=z0S3NzFJ0Dw</a><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Info</span> : </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-voices-reissue-released-by.html">http://treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-voices-reissue-released-by.html</a><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">&</span> </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com/2007/02/story-of-human-voices-second-tree.html">http://treepeoplechronicles.blogspot.com/2007/02/story-of-human-voices-second-tree.html</a><br /></span></div><div align="justify"><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Article</span> : </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://localcut.wweek.com/2008/01/02/the-tree-people-thomas-from-human-voices/">http://localcut.wweek.com/2008/01/02/the-tree-people-thomas-from-human-voices/</a><br /></span></div><div align="left"><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Homepage Stephen Cohen</span> : </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ethreehandstephen/">http://home.earthlink.net/~threehandstephen/</a></span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" > & </span><span class="size9 Arial9" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" ><a target="_self" href="http://www.myspace.com/threehandstephen">http://www.myspace.com/threehandstephen</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Foxy Digitalis</span> website:<br /><br /> <!-- MAIN RECTANGLE --> <img style="margin: 0px 3px 0px 0px; float: left;" src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/admin/reviews/fic/The_Tree_People5572.jpg" /> <div style="text-align: left;" class="title-big">The Tree People "Human Voices"</div> <div class="text-nrml"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/guerssen" target="_blank">Guerssen</a></div><br /><div class="text-nrml"><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating.gif" width="14" height="13" /><img src="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/images/site/rating_n.gif" width="14" height="13" /></div><br />This is a welcome 25th anniversary reissue of this Oregon trio’s rare, cassette-only sophomore effort. Dreamy, mellow folk tunes paved the way for the current new folk movement and unique touches like the echoed vocals on “Grandfather” and the tinkling bells on “Rain, Rain” make this something special. Jeff Stier’s flute and recorder establishes a warm, floating vibe throughout the mostly instrumental album, and the liner notes from main composer Stephen Cohen are both historical and informative. The Spanish air to Cohen’s guitar on the lengthy “Things Fall Apart” is both hesitant and inviting, and draws the listener in to Stier’s recorder/flute flourishes, transporting the listener to an otherworldly plane, part gypsy dance, part ominous bullfight. (Note: The bonus track, “Sketches,” also benefits from this earthy, European vibe and is generously dedicated to the band’s part-time drummer, Denis Mochary, who played on it and several other tracks and who passed away in Japan several years ago.)<br /><br />“Thomas” is a live favorite that’s part Simon & Garfunkle, part Peter, Paul & Mary and 100% fun – the harmonies are particularly well-arranged, weaving wonderfully around Stier’s recorders. This is one for those rainy day dreamaways where you find your mind wandering off to lonely strolls through the park, or navel gazing under the old apple tree out back. And if you can’t get up and do the jolly jig to “Dance,” then your get up and go has got up and gone and it’s time to return to your armchair traveling…back to the kinder, gentler times of 1984 to climb up and build a tree house to hang out with The Tree People and mellow out to “Human Voices.”<br /><a class="name-link" href="http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/writers.php?which=73">Jeff Penczak</a> <span class="date-nrml"> (11 August, 2009)</span><br /></div><span class="size10 Helvetica10" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" ><br /></span><h2><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The review below is definitely entertaining and positive despite Casey's allergic reaction to flutes. </span>One correction- the words to the song <span style="font-style: italic;">Human Voices</span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">are:</span> </h2><h2 style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">in the morning when you're still sleeping</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">when you have those crazy nightmares<br /></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">I swear I hear, within the bird song</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;font-size:100%;" >human voices joining along in a laughing song</span></h2>(so that's why people print out the words on albums! I guess we will print the words on the new album when it is ready!)<br /><h2><b>The Tree People </b> <i>Human Voices</i></h2><h2><span style="font-size:100%;">(Guerssen)</span></h2><span class="author" style="text-align: left;">BY CASEY JARMAN, <span style="font-style: italic;">Willamette Week<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);font-size:85%;" >[July 8th, 2009]</span><br /><p> <img src="http://wweek.com/extra/3535/review1.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: right;" /> </p><p> [FLUTE FOXES] Within the first 30 seconds of the Tree People’s reissued sophomore album, <i>Human Voices,</i> the psych-folk trio tests an aughties listener’s threshold for both the weird and the tender: “In the morning when you’re still sleeping/ When you have those crazy nightmares/ I swear I’m here within the birdsong/ Human voices joining along in our loving song.” These trippy lines are beautifully delivered—spooky three-part harmonies paired with unpredictable chord and tempo changes rattling out from a finger-picked guitar. But when the flute swoops in like an excitable raven, cynicism and years of anti-Renaissance Fair conditioning creep into one’s opinion. </p><p> About half of <i>Human Voices</i> is instrumental, with Stephen Cohen’s voice and acoustic guitar canoodling with Jeff Stier’s expertly played flutes and organic percussion. And while the wordless compositions—anchored by Stephen’s brother Jeremy on bass—are coolly melodic, it’s a side of the recently rebuilt trio that is going to be tough for modern audiences to contextualize. Oregon was a gentler place in 1984, it would seem. Still, the Tree People’s lyrically driven songs are both accessible and modern. The haunting “Grandfather” evokes Lou Reed more than Donovan; disc highlight “Thomas” is a Simon and Garfunkel-esque story song, and the earnest “That’s Entertainment” is both relatable and thrillingly told. </p><p> Picking up a <i>Human Voices</i> isn’t quite like discovering Nick Drake or John Fahey—musical spirits who seem more natural now than they ever did when they were in their prime songwriting years. Instead, one has to meet Treepeople halfway between now and then. But <i>Human Voices,</i> like the trio’s fascinating 1979 self-titled debut, provides another excellent reason to do so. </p></div>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10463868.post-66715392507188816032009-08-06T23:23:00.000-07:002009-08-06T23:33:36.649-07:00"Human Voices" vinyl edition now released by Guerssen Records<span style="color:#003800;"><b>The vinyl edition of "Human Voices" has now been released by Guerssen Records. They did a wonderful job with the vinyl edition and it is amazing to see this recording, which we did so long ago (in 1984), get new life! Who could guess in 1984 that vinyl would come back in in the 21st century, and that both our 1979 and 1984 albums would be reissued as CDs , downloads and vinyl records?<br /><br />TREE PEOPLE</b><br /><br /></span> Title.<br /><span style="color:#3d7639;">Human voices<br /><br /></span> Format. <span style="color:#3d7639;">LP</span><br /> Label. <span style="color:#3d7639;">GUERSSEN</span><br /><br /> <p align="justify">Description. <span style="color:#3d7639;">Watch out for this rarity. You know the Tree People, late 70s predecessors of the ongoing new folk movement in the USA. You know their 1979 debut album and you know it's a masterpiece….. but oh well, did you know about their second album??? Surely not, especially because it was a cassette only release at the time with a very short print.<br /><<br />Luckily enough, the Tree People guys kept the mastertapes of these recordings and we're proud to be making this wonderful music available now.<br />After the CD version released last month, here's the vinyl also with splendid sound quality.<br /><br />The music here is equally as good, if not better, than the self- titled debut and a real must for any folk and psych- folk lover. Acoustic guitars, subtile percussions, wonderful flute work and some warm vocals, but overall a real big dose of quality and originality that makes the Tree People music be absolutely ahead of its time and therefore so much admired today. A real beauty!<br /><br />Comes with an insert including liners by the band's leader Stephen Cohen, as well as some pictures. </span></p> Ref. <span style="color:#3d7639;"><b>GUESS055</b></span> <img src="http://www.guerssen.com/_internal/cimg%210/3mph8f8owlvkbhyx" width="200" border="0" height="200" /> <br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/grandfather.mp3"><img src="http://www.guerssen.com/pic/mostra.png" border="0" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/grandfather.mp3" class="mostra">grandfather</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/human_voices.mp3"><img src="http://www.guerssen.com/pic/mostra.png" border="0" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/human_voices.mp3" class="mostra">human voices</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/opus_II.mp3"><img src="http://www.guerssen.com/pic/mostra.png" border="0" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/opus_II.mp3" class="mostra">opus II</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/thomas.mp3"><img src="http://www.guerssen.com/pic/mostra.png" border="0" /></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.guerssen.com/fotos//mostres/thomas.mp3" class="mostra">thomas</a></td></tr></tbody></table>Stephen Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03664181153932576522noreply@blogger.com0