Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Musiques Disperses Festival in Spain- the last performance under the Tree People name
Stephen Cohen (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 (Rich Hinrichsen and Stephen in high speed train in photo above) from Barcelona to Lleida, Spain, finally meets Musiques Disperses Festival director and Guessen Records executive Antoni Gorgues in person, after years of corresponding by e-mail and phone and releases of 3 Tree People albums by Guerssen Records.
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.
This photo was taken in front of the festival site, Cafe del Teatre.
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!
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| Stephen Cohen and Rich Hinrichsen, happy to be in Spain, happy to be performing later that evening! |
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| noon rehearsal at the festival site, Cafe del Teatre, on the day of the concert |
from left to right: Hector Beberide Farrus, Stephen Cohen, Rich Hinrichsen and Jordi Gallen.
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.
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| Hector and Stephen in rehearsal |
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| Hector, Stephen and Rich in rehearsal |
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| Stephen, Rich and Jordi in rehearsal |
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Stephen, Rich and Jordi in rehearsal  After the noon rehearsal, an afternoon break, and a sound check, Antoni 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. |
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Performance time! Stephen and Rich enjoying the moment. 4 musicians in the spotlight  Hector, Stephen, Rich and Jordi get into it! |
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!
Here are the songs, in order, that we performed at the Musique Disperses Festival:
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
curtain call: Rain, Rain, Rain, Space Heater
2nd curtain call: Goodnight, goodnight  |
| Rich, Mary and Stephen |
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| Stopping at the Placa de Sant Joan on the walk back to the train the day after our performance in LLeida, Rich and Stephen stop to rest, Stephen plays a song on his guitar, and some children stop to look and listen.   |
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| 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. Below: Bigott at the Musiques Disperses Festival:   One of the highlights of touring for me is seeing and meeting other musicians from all over the world. |
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Tree People in Spain soon!
www.musiquesdisperses.com
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.
Friday, January 07, 2011
The Tree People's "It's My Story" on Delire Musical's top 50 albums of 2010
The Tree People's "It's My Story" album is on Delire Musical's top 50 albums of 2010 list!
It is nice to be appreciated in Quebec!
You can find the list in the December 21, 2010 post at http://blog.monsieurdelire.com
Here is an excerpt from the post:
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.
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.
It is nice to be appreciated in Quebec!
You can find the list in the December 21, 2010 post at http://blog.monsieurdelire.com
Here is an excerpt from the post:
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.
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.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Wonderful 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 Audiophile Vinyl 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:
THE TREE PEOPLE
It's My Story
Guerssen
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.
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.
THE TREE PEOPLE
It's My Story
Guerssen
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.
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.
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The Tree People's new album, "It's My Story" now released!
2010-08-28
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 Guerssen Records of Spain!
THE TREE PEOPLE
Title.
It's my story
Format. LP, CD
Label. GUERSSEN
Description. Fathers of freak folk / folk psych pioneers The Tree People have incredibly made it again.
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.
Eleven new tracks, plus a new version of '' Space heater'' which was in their 1979 debut.
Includes insert with photos and liners by folk- psych connoisseur Gerald Van Waes.
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,
Guerssen Rec.
The Tree People : It's My Story (US,2010)****
The Tree People : It's My Story (US,2010)****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!
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.
Audio & info : http://www.myspace.com/musicofthetreepeople
Description on http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=t54f5j8775 & http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/tree.people.the.html
Label : http://www.myspace.com/guerssen & http://www.guerssen.com/And here, just in, in French and English, from the Monsieur Delire website:
THE TREE PEOPLE / It’s My Story (Guerssen - merci à/thanks to Forced Exposure)
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”.]
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!
A sound clip from “More than Yoko.”
and here, Casey Jarman's post about More than Yoko on the Willamette Week website:
The Tree People, “More than Yoko,” It’s My Story (Guerssen)
November 19th, 2010 [3:46PM] Posted by: Casey Jarman
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).
Keeping my thoughts short and sweet here (like the song), but you really should check out the Tree People.
and here is Casey Jarman's review of It's My Story in Willamette Week:
The Tree People It’s My Story (Guerssen)
[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.
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.
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.
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.
and here is Barbara Mitchell's review in the Oregonian:
The Return of Tree People
Published: Friday, November 12, 2010, 5:09 AM
Barbara Mitchell, Special to The Oregonian
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
-- Barbara Mitchell
Thursday, August 12, 2010
The Tree People and friends descend into the Cistern
These photos of the Dan Harpole Cistern are from the Centrum website.
As part of a wonderful Tree People Centrum Creative Residency, 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 Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington.
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.
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 Centrum. 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.
Here is a video of our first Cistern experience:
You can hear the first movement of the Cistern Symphony at our new facebook music page documenting the creation of the Cistern Symphony. You can also hear it at our myspace page: it is the 10th piece of music on the page.
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.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
New Tree People album, "It's My Story" to be released soon by Guerssen Records
Guerssen Records is now working on the release of our new album, It's My Story.
Printing and pressing of the vinyl album begins this week, with work on the CD soon to follow.
Antoni and his wonderful staff at Guerssen Records 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!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
The Tree People on myspace, The Tree People then and now
The Tree People are now on myspace!
Why? Another way to communicate with everybody.
On our first go round some years back, there was no myspace, no twitter, no facebook,
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.
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.
Why? Another way to communicate with everybody.
On our first go round some years back, there was no myspace, no twitter, no facebook,
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
"Grandfather" from "Human Voices" on Anthology's Top 50 songs for 2009
Our "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.
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!
posted 12/22/2009 3:19:01 PM
Anthology's Top 50 Songs for 2009
by stormchild
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...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ANTHOLOGY!!!
50. Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox
"Toucan Ocean"
49. Perry Leopold - Experiment In Metaphysics
"And Then The Snow Came"
48. Ray Camacho And The Teardrops - The Best Of Ray Camacho And The Teardops
"It's Time For Me To Love You"
47. Collage - s/t
"1-2-3"
46. Linval Thompson - Whip Them King Tubby!
"Everybody's Got To Be Free"
45. Big Boy Pete - The Margetson Demos
"My Love Is Like A Spaceship"
44. Marc Mundy - s/t
"How Can I Marry This Language"
43. Loop - Fade Out
"Black Sun"
42. Wasted Youth - Memorialize
"Wildlife"
41. Marine Girls - Lazy Ways / Beach Party
"In Love"
40 Horses - s/t
"Birdie In A Cage"
39. Ruthann Friedman - Hurried Life: Lost Recordings 1965-1971
"Windy"
38. Colin Newman - Commercial Suicide
"I'm Still Here"
37. Bob Lind - Since There Were Circles
"City Scenes"
36. Cooley Munson - In Debt
"Sightly Sue"
35. Traffic Sound - s/t
"Yesterday's Game"
34. The Factory - Path Through the Forest
"Try A Little Sunshine"
33. Dave Bixby - Ode To Quetzalcoatl
"Drug Song"
32. Van Duren - Are You Serious?
"Grow Yourself Up"
31. VA - Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk And Soul 1965-1975
Robbie Hill's Family Affair - "I Just Want To Be (Like Myself)"
30. Stack - Above All
"Do It"
29. Space Art - Trip In The Center Head
"Speedway"
28. Luie Luie - Touchy
"El Touchy"
27. Jack Blanchard And Misty Morgan - Life And Death (And Almost Everything Else)
"Yellow Bellied Sapsucker"
26. Charlie Tweddle - Fantastic Greatest Hits
"Untitled-2"
25. Andy Goldner - Infinity
"All Those Lives"
24. VA - Tape #1
Mofungo - "Speed"
23. La Sonora de Lucho Macedo - Vol. 1 - King on Mambos, Guarachas, Descargas And Cumbias
"Fue En La Playa"
22. Rodriguez - Cold Fact
"Rich Folks Hoax"
21. Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited - Gwindingwi Rine Shumba
"Shumba"
20. Sandy Bull - Still Valentines Day, 1969, Live At The Matrix, San Francisco
"No Deposit No Return Blues"
19. Warlus - Songs
"Girl Like You"
18. Bruce Haack - Haackula
"Party Machine"
17. Exmagma - Exmagma And Goldball
"Habits"
16. Fifty Foot Hose - Live In San Francisco: March 16, 2003
"If Not This Time"
15. Pau Riba - Pau Riba / Pau I Jordi
"Taxista"
14. Fox - s/t
"The Juggler"
13. Malvina Reynolds - s/t
"The Albatross"
12. Indestructible Beat - The Broad Church Of The Indestructible Beat
"When The Oil Runs Out"
11. Simon Finn - Pass The Distance
"Jerusalem"
10. Prefab Messiahs - Devolver
"The 16th Track"
9. The Newtown Neurotics - Live At Brunel University, England
"Airstrip One"
8. Tree People - Human Voices
"Grandfather"
7. Bill Quick - Maravillosa Gente
"Beautiful People"
6. Archaia - s/t
"Sur Les Trances Du Vieux Roy"
5. Househunters - Feeding Frenzy
"Don't Look Back"
4. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
"Chimacum Rain"
3. Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely
"Playboy Of The Western World"
2. Simply Saucer - Saucerland
"Clearly Invisible - 1975"
1. Telegraph Avenue - Volume 2
"Tookie Tookie"
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!
posted 12/22/2009 3:19:01 PM
Anthology's Top 50 Songs for 2009
by stormchild
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...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM ANTHOLOGY!!!
50. Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox
"Toucan Ocean"
49. Perry Leopold - Experiment In Metaphysics
"And Then The Snow Came"
48. Ray Camacho And The Teardrops - The Best Of Ray Camacho And The Teardops
"It's Time For Me To Love You"
47. Collage - s/t
"1-2-3"
46. Linval Thompson - Whip Them King Tubby!
"Everybody's Got To Be Free"
45. Big Boy Pete - The Margetson Demos
"My Love Is Like A Spaceship"
44. Marc Mundy - s/t
"How Can I Marry This Language"
43. Loop - Fade Out
"Black Sun"
42. Wasted Youth - Memorialize
"Wildlife"
41. Marine Girls - Lazy Ways / Beach Party
"In Love"
40 Horses - s/t
"Birdie In A Cage"
39. Ruthann Friedman - Hurried Life: Lost Recordings 1965-1971
"Windy"
38. Colin Newman - Commercial Suicide
"I'm Still Here"
37. Bob Lind - Since There Were Circles
"City Scenes"
36. Cooley Munson - In Debt
"Sightly Sue"
35. Traffic Sound - s/t
"Yesterday's Game"
34. The Factory - Path Through the Forest
"Try A Little Sunshine"
33. Dave Bixby - Ode To Quetzalcoatl
"Drug Song"
32. Van Duren - Are You Serious?
"Grow Yourself Up"
31. VA - Wheedle's Groove: Seattle's Finest In Funk And Soul 1965-1975
Robbie Hill's Family Affair - "I Just Want To Be (Like Myself)"
30. Stack - Above All
"Do It"
29. Space Art - Trip In The Center Head
"Speedway"
28. Luie Luie - Touchy
"El Touchy"
27. Jack Blanchard And Misty Morgan - Life And Death (And Almost Everything Else)
"Yellow Bellied Sapsucker"
26. Charlie Tweddle - Fantastic Greatest Hits
"Untitled-2"
25. Andy Goldner - Infinity
"All Those Lives"
24. VA - Tape #1
Mofungo - "Speed"
23. La Sonora de Lucho Macedo - Vol. 1 - King on Mambos, Guarachas, Descargas And Cumbias
"Fue En La Playa"
22. Rodriguez - Cold Fact
"Rich Folks Hoax"
21. Thomas Mapfumo And The Blacks Unlimited - Gwindingwi Rine Shumba
"Shumba"
20. Sandy Bull - Still Valentines Day, 1969, Live At The Matrix, San Francisco
"No Deposit No Return Blues"
19. Warlus - Songs
"Girl Like You"
18. Bruce Haack - Haackula
"Party Machine"
17. Exmagma - Exmagma And Goldball
"Habits"
16. Fifty Foot Hose - Live In San Francisco: March 16, 2003
"If Not This Time"
15. Pau Riba - Pau Riba / Pau I Jordi
"Taxista"
14. Fox - s/t
"The Juggler"
13. Malvina Reynolds - s/t
"The Albatross"
12. Indestructible Beat - The Broad Church Of The Indestructible Beat
"When The Oil Runs Out"
11. Simon Finn - Pass The Distance
"Jerusalem"
10. Prefab Messiahs - Devolver
"The 16th Track"
9. The Newtown Neurotics - Live At Brunel University, England
"Airstrip One"
8. Tree People - Human Voices
"Grandfather"
7. Bill Quick - Maravillosa Gente
"Beautiful People"
6. Archaia - s/t
"Sur Les Trances Du Vieux Roy"
5. Househunters - Feeding Frenzy
"Don't Look Back"
4. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
"Chimacum Rain"
3. Connie Converse - How Sad, How Lovely
"Playboy Of The Western World"
2. Simply Saucer - Saucerland
"Clearly Invisible - 1975"
1. Telegraph Avenue - Volume 2
"Tookie Tookie"
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Tree People "Human Voices" reissue on top 50 list, Delire Musical, CFLX- FM Quebec
Below is the Tree People "Human Voices" reissue album in a top 50 list in Canada.
Maybe one day a Tree People tour in Canada is in order!
2009-12-22
Le Top 50 des musiques éclectiques 2009 de DM / DM's 2009 Eclectic Top 50
Libellés : Délire Musical, Délire Musical - Top 50, Délire Musical - Top 50 - 2009
[English & list lower]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Les 50 meilleurs disques de l’année 2009 selon Délire Musical
Délire Musical's 2009 Eclectic Music Top 50
Format des notices : Artiste Titre Étiquette
Nouveautés et rééditions combinées. Présentation par ordre alphabétique.
Reference format: Artist Title Label
New releases and new reissues combined. Alphabetical order.
Artistes variés/Various artists An Outbreak of Twangin’ Psychic Circle
Artistes variés/Various artists Dante’s Inferno (The Divine Comedy - Part I) Musea
Artistes variés/Various artists Music for Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds for the Connoisseur Psychic Circle
Anthony & The Johnsons The Crying Light Secretely Canadian
Balmorhea All is Wild, All is Silent Western Vinyl
Beat Circus Boy from Black Mountain Cuneiform
Bird, Andrew Noble Beast Fat Possum Records
The Black Heart Procession Six Temporary Residence
Chance:Risiko Sleep Talking altrOck
Cordâme Migration Malasartes Musique
Do Make Say Think Other Truths Constellation
Dial M for Murder! Fiction of Her Dreams Tapete Records
Earth Explorer, The TEE Musea/Poseidon
Embassadors, The Coptic Dub Nonplace
Falaise, Bernard - Frank Martel À l’école du ara Monsieur Fauteux m’entendez-vous?
Finn. The Best Low-Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own Erased Tapes
Flippers, Los Pronto viviremos un mundo mucho mejor Guerssen
God is an Astronaut God is an Astronaut Revive Records
Gong 2032 G-Wave
Hammill, Peter Thin Air Fie!
The Hylozoists L’île de Sept Villes Outside Music
IQ Frequency InsideOut
Jono El Grande Neo Dada Rune Grammofon
KTU Quiver 7d Media
Late Call, The Leaving Notes Tapete Records
Magma Ëmëhntëtt-Rê Seventh Records
Matthews, Iain & Searing Quartet Joy Mining Fledg’ling
Minimum Vital Capitaines Musea
Mindflower Little enchanted void Musea
Miriodor Avanti! Cuneiform
Moraine Manifest Density Moonjune
Múm Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know Euphono Records
Neuburg, Amy X & The Cello ChiXtet The Secret Language of Subways Min Max Music
OSI Blood InsideOut
Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree Snapper
Roshi feat. Pars Radio The Sky and the Caspian Sea Geo Records
Rotfront Emigrantski Raggamuffin Essay
Sebkha-Chott De la persistance de la mythologie chotienne en ??? vélos Musea Parallele
Sharcüt Sharcüt ind.
SimakDialog Demi Masa Moonjune
Sinier, Raoul Tremens Industry Ad Noiseam
Sloche Stadaconé ProgQuébec
Spevack, Ysanne - Philip Clemo Soundzero ind.
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 3 Rune Grammofon
Tinariwen Imidiwan: Companion Outside Music
Tree People, The Human Voices Guerssen
Trembling Bells Carbeth Honest Jons Records
Vialka Succès planétaire international Vialka
Watson, Patrick Wooden Arms Secret City
Wilson, Steven Insurgentes kscope
Publié par Monsieur Délire à 7:59 AM
Maybe one day a Tree People tour in Canada is in order!
2009-12-22
Le Top 50 des musiques éclectiques 2009 de DM / DM's 2009 Eclectic Top 50
Libellés : Délire Musical, Délire Musical - Top 50, Délire Musical - Top 50 - 2009
[English & list lower]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Les 50 meilleurs disques de l’année 2009 selon Délire Musical
Délire Musical's 2009 Eclectic Music Top 50
Format des notices : Artiste Titre Étiquette
Nouveautés et rééditions combinées. Présentation par ordre alphabétique.
Reference format: Artist Title Label
New releases and new reissues combined. Alphabetical order.
Artistes variés/Various artists An Outbreak of Twangin’ Psychic Circle
Artistes variés/Various artists Dante’s Inferno (The Divine Comedy - Part I) Musea
Artistes variés/Various artists Music for Mentalists: Unexpected Sounds for the Connoisseur Psychic Circle
Anthony & The Johnsons The Crying Light Secretely Canadian
Balmorhea All is Wild, All is Silent Western Vinyl
Beat Circus Boy from Black Mountain Cuneiform
Bird, Andrew Noble Beast Fat Possum Records
The Black Heart Procession Six Temporary Residence
Chance:Risiko Sleep Talking altrOck
Cordâme Migration Malasartes Musique
Do Make Say Think Other Truths Constellation
Dial M for Murder! Fiction of Her Dreams Tapete Records
Earth Explorer, The TEE Musea/Poseidon
Embassadors, The Coptic Dub Nonplace
Falaise, Bernard - Frank Martel À l’école du ara Monsieur Fauteux m’entendez-vous?
Finn. The Best Low-Priced Heartbreakers You Can Own Erased Tapes
Flippers, Los Pronto viviremos un mundo mucho mejor Guerssen
God is an Astronaut God is an Astronaut Revive Records
Gong 2032 G-Wave
Hammill, Peter Thin Air Fie!
The Hylozoists L’île de Sept Villes Outside Music
IQ Frequency InsideOut
Jono El Grande Neo Dada Rune Grammofon
KTU Quiver 7d Media
Late Call, The Leaving Notes Tapete Records
Magma Ëmëhntëtt-Rê Seventh Records
Matthews, Iain & Searing Quartet Joy Mining Fledg’ling
Minimum Vital Capitaines Musea
Mindflower Little enchanted void Musea
Miriodor Avanti! Cuneiform
Moraine Manifest Density Moonjune
Múm Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know Euphono Records
Neuburg, Amy X & The Cello ChiXtet The Secret Language of Subways Min Max Music
OSI Blood InsideOut
Ozric Tentacles The Yumyum Tree Snapper
Roshi feat. Pars Radio The Sky and the Caspian Sea Geo Records
Rotfront Emigrantski Raggamuffin Essay
Sebkha-Chott De la persistance de la mythologie chotienne en ??? vélos Musea Parallele
Sharcüt Sharcüt ind.
SimakDialog Demi Masa Moonjune
Sinier, Raoul Tremens Industry Ad Noiseam
Sloche Stadaconé ProgQuébec
Spevack, Ysanne - Philip Clemo Soundzero ind.
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 3 Rune Grammofon
Tinariwen Imidiwan: Companion Outside Music
Tree People, The Human Voices Guerssen
Trembling Bells Carbeth Honest Jons Records
Vialka Succès planétaire international Vialka
Watson, Patrick Wooden Arms Secret City
Wilson, Steven Insurgentes kscope
Publié par Monsieur Délire à 7:59 AM
Sunday, December 06, 2009
The Tree People's "Human Voices" on New Yorker writer Sasha Frere-Jones' Best of 2009 list!
Here is our reissue album, Human Voices, at number #34 on the New Yorker magazine music writer Sasha Frere-Jones' Best of 2009 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.)
BEST OF 2009, Sasha Frere-Jones, December 7, 2009
ALBUMS
1. Sleigh Bells
2. Dirty Projectors “Bitte Orca” (Domino)
3. The-Dream “Love vs. Money” (Def Jam)
4. Neko Case “Middle Cyclone” (Anti-)
5. Mastodon “Crack The Skye” (Reprise)
6. Annie “Don’t Stop” (Totally/Smalltown Supersound)
7. Micachu & The Shapes “Jewellery” (Rough Trade)
8. Lily Allen “It’s Not Me, It’s You” (EMI/Capitol)
9. Sunn O))) “Monoliths & Dimensions” (Southern Lord)
10. Grizzly Bear “Veckatimest” (Warp)
11. Little Dragon “Machine Dreams” (Peacefrog)
12. Edan “Echo Party” (Five Day Weekend)
13. DJ Sega “Live at The Bowery Ballroom”
14. Mr. Chop “For Pete’s Sake” (5DW/Now Again)
15. Fever Ray (Rabid/Mute)
16. Raekwon “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Pt. 2” (Ice H20)
17. Sonic Youth “The Eternal” (Matador)
18. Lil Wayne “No Ceilings” (Young Money)
19. Harmonia & Eno ’76 “Tracks & Traces” (Grönland)
20. Freddie Gibbs “midwestgangstaboxframecadillacmuzik”
21. Prefuse 73 “Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian” (Warp)
22. Lady Gaga “The Fame” (Interscope)
23. Joker “Purple Wow Sound”
24. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “It’s Blitz!” (Interscope)
25. Black To Comm “Alphabet 1968” (Type)
26. Eugene McGuinness (Domino)
27. Mokira “Persona” (Type)
28. “Freedom, Rhythm and Sound: Revolutionary Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement 1963-82” (Soul Jazz)
29. Brad Paisley “American Saturday Night” (Arista)
30. Vowels “The Pattern Prism” (LOAF)
31. Here We Go Magic (Western Vinyl)
32. The Phenomenal Handclap Band (Friendly Fire)
33. N-Type “Rinse: 09” (Rinse FM)
34. The Tree People “Human Voices” (Guerssen)
35. Air “Love 2” (Aircheology/Astralwerks)
36. Erin McCarley “Love, Save The Empty” (Universal Republic)
37. Vladislav Delay “Tummaa” (Leaf)
38. The Arch Cupcake “Box of Bees” (Patriarch)
39. Dude ’N Nem “Tinted Incubators” (TVT)
40. Thee Oh Sees “Help” (In The Red)
41. “Sensacional Soul Vol. 2: 32 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1965/1972” (Vampisoul)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
some press for Friday night's concert at Mississippi Studios
Tree People, Foothills
Mississippi Studios Friday, November 27th, 9 PM $12 21+
(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 dryacoustic 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.
Casey Jarmin, Willamette Week
The Tree People – Back, New Album Out Next Year
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.
9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 27, Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Ave. 503-288-3895, $12
Monday, August 31, 2009
The Tree People recording session at Dead Aunt Thelma's Recording Studio, August 24, 2009, photos by Ben Sussman
photos by:Ben Sussman
musicians:Stephen, Jeff and Rich
engineer:
Dean Baskerville
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