LOST IN THE TREES PREMIERES “GOLDEN EYELIDS” VIDEO AT BROOKLYN VEGAN
NPR Broadcasts Live Performance From NYC
Brooklynvegan.com is premiering a striking new video from the band Lost In The Trees today. The clip is for the group’s song “Golden Eyelids” from the band’s revered new album A Church That Fits Our Needs which Billboard Magazine called “Stunningly beautiful.” In the video, watery translucent imagery provides an potent visual accompaniment to the intensely personal emotions conveyed in this affecting song.
In addition, this Wednesday April 11th the NPR show All Songs Considered will be featuring a LIVE video and audio broadcast of Lost In The Tree’s April 11th live performance at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC.
The new Lost In The Trees record A Church That Fits Our Needs is an immensely ambitious work inspired by loss and transformation. In the summer of 2009, the group’s writer, composer and singer, Ari Picker, lost his artist mother when she took her own life. Picker has transformed the event into an evocative and moving musical tribute. Far from being a somber affair, the classically trained composer has utilized rhythm as its own emotional language, never losing the propulsive vitality of great rock and roll.
Critical Acclaim For Lost In The Trees’ “A Church That Fits Our Needs”:
“Stunningly gorgeous” – Los Angeles Times
“This 12-track song cycle is as moving and life affirming as it is moribund and gut wrenching… A Church That Fits Our Needs succeeds on nearly every level.” – All Music
“It’s as if a soul is being lifted to the heavens.” – Under The Radar
“Picker’s high and warbling voice conveys the fragility of existence with nearly every phrase, and the orchestral songs elucidate the intense wonder of life.” – The New Yorker
“Stunningly intimate songs that deserve unmitigated attention” – Wall Street Journal
NPR FIRST LISTEN PREMIERES NEW LOST IN THE TREES RECORD
“Breakthrough Album†A Church That Fits Our Needs Out March 20th
Multi-Continent Tour Kicked Off at All Tomorrow’s Parties on March 11th
Today, March 12th, NPR’s First Listen Series will premiere the highly anticipated new
LOST IN THE TREES album A Church That Fits Our Needs. The album will be in stores
March 20th via Anti- Records.
This is the follow up to the North Carolina ensembles 2010 album All Alone In An Empty Housewhich the Huffington Post called “spellbinding in its musical ambition, touching in its intimacy, and often overwhelming in its emotional honesty†and The LA Times described as “a collection of classically enhanced pop that’s as fit for a chamber hall as it is a rock club.”
The band’s newest, A Church That Fits Our Needs, declared a “breakthrough album†by Billboard Magazine, is an ambitious work inspired by loss and transformation. In the summer of 2009, the group’s writer, composer and singer, Ari Picker, lost his artist mother when she took her own life. Picker has transformed the event into an evocative and moving musical celebration. Far from being a somber affair, the classically trained composer has utilized rhythm as its own emotional language, never losing the propulsive vitality of great rock and roll.
To stream this exhilarating new record in its entirety, just go to: http://goo.gl/l7MF3
LOST IN THE TREES kicked off their international touring with a performance at the Jeff Mangum curated All Tomorrow’s Parties UK on March 11th, followed by their March 12th NPR First Listen honorary celebration tonight in London, a run of high-profile shows at South By Southwest this week in Austin, Texas and then a full North American tour with Fleet Foxes members Christian Wargo’s and Casey Wescott’s project Poor Moon (Sub Pop) in tow.
Lost In The Trees / SXSW 2012
WED 03/14 7:00am KUT LIVE / Four Seasons 98 San Jacinto
THURS 03/15 2:10pm ADA/WMG Day Party / La Zona Rosa 612 W 4th
8:30pm Ari Picker w/Big Star’s Third “LIVE” / Paramount Theater 713 Congress
FRI 03/16 12:30pm Under The Radar / Flamingo Cantina 515 E 6th
3:30pm PlayNetwork Day Party / Speakeasy 412D Congress
1:00am Billions Corp SXSW Showcase / Antone’s 213 West 5th
“A Church That Fits Our Needs†North American Tour Dates (w/Poor Moon)
03-12 The Lexington, London UK
03-16 Antone’s (SXSW) Austin, TX
03-20 The Loft San Diego CA
03-22 The Echo Los Angeles CA
03-23 Bottom of the Hill Oakland CA
03-24 Arcata Playhouse Arcata CA
03-25 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR
03-27 Tractor Tavern Seattle WA
03-28 Neurolux Boise ID
03-29 The State Room Salt Lake City UT
03-30 Hi Dive Denver CO
03-31 Slowdown Omaha NE
04-02 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis MN
04-03 Schubas Tavern Chicago IL
04-04 Space Evanston IL
04-05 Wexner Center Columbus OH
04-09 Burlington City Arts Center Burlington VT
04-10 Space Gallery Portland ME
04-11 Le Poisson Rouge New York NY
04-13 Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
04-14 Black Cat Washington DC
04-20 Cats Cradle Carrboro, NC
For further information, please contact Hilary Okun at Hilary@epitaph.com.
Group To Tour In Support Of New Album Out March 20th
This Tuesday February 20th, influential Los Angeles public radio station KCRW will premiere a song called “Golden Eyelids†from the upcoming new album by acclaimed ensemble Lost In The Trees. The lush and poignant track is from the group’s new record called A Church That Fits Our Needs set for release this coming March 20th via Anti Records.
A Church That Fits Our Needs is an ambitious work inspired by loss and transformation. In the summer of 2009, the group’s writer, composer and singer, Ari Picker, lost his artist mother when she took her own life. Picker has transformed the event into an evocative and moving musical tribute. Far from being a somber affair, the classically trained composer has utilized rhythm as its own emotional language, never losing the propulsive vitality of great rock and roll.
Lost in the Trees will begin touring with a special performance at All Tomorrow’s Parties UK at the invitation of Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum. They will then travel across North America including performances at the renowned SXSW Festival.
Lost In The Trees Tour Dates:
2012-03-09/10/11 All Tomorrow’s Parties UK , Butlins Holiday Centre, Minehead, UK
2012-03-12 The Lexington, London UK
2012-03-16 Antone’s (SXSW) Austin, TX
2012-03-19 Plush Tucson AZ
2012-03-20 The Loft San Diego CA
2012-03-22 The Echo Los Angeles CA
2012-03-23 Bottom of the Hill Oakland CA
2012-03-24 Arcata Playhouse Arcata CA
2012-03-25 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR
2012-03-27 Tractor Tavern Seattle WA
2012-03-28 Neurolux Boise ID
2012-03-29 The State Room Salt Lake City UT
2012-03-30 Hi Dive Denver CO
2012-03-31 Slowdown Omaha NE
2012-04-02 Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis MN
2012-04-03 Schubas Tavern Chicago IL
2012-04-04 Space Evanston IL
2012-04-05 Wexner Center Columbus OH
2012-04-06 The Drake Toronto ON
2012-04-07 Il Motore Montreal QC
2012-04-09 Burlington City Arts Center Burlington VT
2012-04-10 Space Gallery Portland ME
2012-04-11 Le Poisson Rouge New York NY
2012-04-13 Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
2012-04-14 Black Cat Washington DC
2012-04-20 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro NC
The Apples in stereo to Reissue Watershed Indie-Rock Record, Fun Trick Noisemaker, on Vinyl
January 24, 2011 – The Apples in stereo and Yep Roc Records are excited to announce the reissue of the watershed indie-rock record Fun Trick Noisemaker on vinyl on January 24. Originally released in 1995, the album has not been available on vinyl in over fifteen years. The reissue will include all of the original artwork, liner notes, rephotographed paintings by Steve Keene, and a four-color poster insert.
Upon its original release in the spring of 1995, All Music Guide called The Apples in stereo’sdebut full length “one of those records that marks a sea change in musical attitudes.†Fun Trick Noisemaker facilitated such a shift by moving the focus away from the negativity of the grunge era, towards a sunnier, more psychedelic vision of rock music. As one of the flagship members of the famed Elephant 6 Collective, The Apples in stereo spearheaded a seismic shift in indie-rock consciousness towards a more optimistic worldview. Their recordings echoed and helped revive interest in the likes of Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Arthur Lee, Syd Barrett and even Burt Bacharach.
“It was a concept album about growing up, about summertime and the end of summer vacation, sunny but bittersweet,†says Robert Schneider. “We spent our entire recording budget on microphones, compressors and an eight-track tape machine, with almost no idea how they worked, then we set out to create a perfect hybrid of Sixties psych-pop and the lo-fi scene we identified with, a fusion of Pet Sounds, Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain.â€
The Apples in stereo have been a hugely influential force in indie rock for nearly 15 years. Fun Trick Noisemakerwas the first full-length installment in the musical journey that has grown out of front man Robert Schneider’sinfatuation with recording techniques; ranging from four-track bedroom recordings to100-track studio experiments, to creating newmusical scales and mind-controlled synthesizers. That creative journey continues until this day.But more than just a starting point, Fun Trick Noisemaker stands on its own today as a masterpiece and featuressome of the band’s most loved and indelible tracks such as “Green Machine†and “Tidal Wave.â€
In the summer of 2009 writer, composer, and general architect of the group, Ari Picker, lost his mother, an artist in her own right, when she took her own life. Picker set about transforming the events into a musical tribute, composing and writing with his mother’s picture above his desk: the same picture that now graces the album’s cover.
“I wanted to give her a space, in the music, to be, and to become all the things she didn’t get a chance to be when she was alive,†Picker says.
The result is an album that can stand alongside, not only musical journeys like Neil Young’s “Tonight’s the Night†and Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago,†but also such literature of loss as Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking.â€
While this might sound like a somber affair, A Church That Fits Our Needs is anything but. Picker, a classically trained composer, utilizes rhythm as its own emotional language, never losing the propulsive inevitability and vitality of great rock and roll. Above all this is pop music, in the way that “A Day In the Life†or Radiohead’s “No Surprises†are pop music, seeking to present complex ideas to the widest possible audience.
Lost In The Trees’ Anti-Records 2010 debut album All Alone In An Empty House was a triumph with critics and music fans alike. Bob Boilen of NPR called it his “surprise album of the year†and “mighty potent stuff.” The Washington Post said “the band’s rich, fully realized arrangements elevate Picker’s heartfelt songwriting to memorable heights.” While the Huffington Post said the record “is spellbinding in its musical ambition, touching in its intimacy, and often overwhelming in its emotional honesty. Lost in the Trees is verging on creating a new genre of music.â€
As on All Alone In An Empty House, Picker has once again surrounded himself with musicians who bring his vision to life with verve and sensitivity. A special contribution comes in the vocals of Emma Nadeau, whose soaring wordless melodies counter Picker’s ecstatic vocals throughout. Recorded and produced by Picker in North Carolina, the album was mixed by the legendary Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck), bringing out the lush tones of the orchestrations in their full grandeur. At end of day, A Church That Fits Our Needs is the album Picker set out to make, a moving testament to the power of music to heal and transcend.
(New York, NY): Nearly 40 years after its recording and release, Brian Eno’s Here Come The Warm Jets is just as relevant and exciting as ever. Recorded in 1973 and released in 1974, this epic finger-waving flip-off, rated 9.2 by Pitchfork and considered inspirational for musicians of all ages, has never have been performed song-for-song, note-for-note in live presentation prior to this production*. “Here Come The Warm Jets†makes its Joe’s Pub debut on January 8th, 2012. Showtime is 9:30 pm.
In early 2011, as a birthday present to himself, Rob Christiansen, a recording engineer (Labradford, Unrest, Tuscadero) for WFMU and WNYC (programs Spinning on Air, Soundcheck and New Sounds), and multi-discipline composer / sound designer (music:
East Ghost West Ghost, Eggs; sound-design: Sue DeBeer’s 2004 Whitney Biennial,
Christian Bruno and Natalja Veckich film scores, NPR’s Radio Lab) decided to transcribe the entire album and perform it live in keeping with Eno’s original thoughts on “Here Come The Warm Jets†– with special musical guests.
“…one of the things that I tried to do with Warm Jets was to bring musicians together who would normally never play together and to play a music that they couldn’t agree upon. The music would come from the chemistry,” Brian Eno, 1974.
To this end, the evening’s emcee will be WNYC’s John Schaefer (New Sounds and Soundcheck) and the first round of announced featured musicians will be Joan Wasser (Joanaspolicewoman), noted guitarist Vernon Reid (Living Color) and Travis Morrison (The Dismemberment Plan), as well as Sohrab Habibion from Obits (Sub Pop), Knitting Factory / Partisan Records upstarts Paul Duncan (Warm Ghost) and Dom Cippola (Phantom Family Halo). More performers are to be announced.
 “Solid and throbbing primitivo all the way but with the strangest increment of avant-garding… Eno is the real bizarro warp factor for 1974…The drums are pounding and the guitars are screaming every whichaway in a precisely orchestrated cauldron of terminal hysteria muchly influenced by though far more technologically advanced than early Velvet Underground. Don’t miss it; it’ll drive you crazy.†– Lester Bangs, Creem Magazine, 1974
Check out this NY Magazine / Vulture article in which Greg Gillis aka Girl Talk has put together his Summer BBQ Mix. It includes The Apples in stereo’s classic “Tidal Wave” from their debut album “Fun Trick Noisemaker.”
Lost In The Trees: Re-Orchestrate Bon Iver “Lump Sum”!
Ari Picker, singer-songwriter for North Carolina classical folk rock ensemble Lost In The Trees has re-orchestrated the haunting track ‘Lump Sum’ off the acclaimed debut album For Emma Forever Go by Bon Iver. The song’s original recording was a Thoreau like tale of rebirth through isolation, with songwriter Justin Vernon isolated in a Wisconsin cabin alone with some instruments. Read Full Post »
Lost in the Trees Invited By Jeff Mangum To Perform At All Tomorrow’s Parties UK
Collective to Mark UK Debut Alongside Fleet Foxes, Boredoms, Low, The Apples in stereo, The Fall and Others
Chapel Hill music collective Lost in the Trees have been asked by curator and Neutral Milk Hotel leaderJeff Mangum to perform at the illustrious All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival scheduled for December 2-4 in Minehead, UK. It will mark the band’s UK debut.
LOST IN THE TREES PREMIERES “GOLDEN EYELIDS” VIDEO AT BROOKLYN VEGAN
Chapel Hill music collective Lost in the Trees have been asked by curator and Neutral Milk Hotel leaderJeff Mangum to perform at the illustrious All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival scheduled for December 2-4 in Minehead, UK. It will mark the band’s UK debut.
