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Trees (50th Anniversary Edition)

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shaun rogan
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shaun rogan Awesome box set where for once the plethora of extras truly add to the body of previously released work as evidenced by the brilliant remixes of On The Shore tucked away on this monumental box. Favorite track: Geordie (Remix).
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filauge Her voice, the style, the playing, this is 1970 folk rock of the highest order. Acoustic and electric, traditional and original songs, all a joy to listen to. They sound great on this reissue issue too. Favorite track: The Garden Of Jane Delawney.
nicholas (nick) hamnett
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nicholas (nick) hamnett Are you going to San Francisco? Er, no, mate - lockdown, innit.Plus, I can't even go to Spain now without a visa.But still, you can escape into the pretty flowerbeds, herb gardens, the charming mystical hinterlands of Ye Olde Britain with these wonderful folk tunes here. Brexiteers having taken us even further back, actually - to the economic Stone Age; nostalgia, fairy land, and the general hiding away from the future in the past, is all the rage now.Hey diddle DUMB! (Best folk band ever!). Favorite track: She Moved Thro' The Fair.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Boxset, 24pp booklet, DL card.
    On Ltd GOLD vinyl.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Trees (50th Anniversary Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited Edition of 100 Po Powell/Hipgnosis signed Photo Art Prints

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  • Ltd Edition Gold 4XLP Boxset + 2 Exclusive Art Prints
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    Boxset, 24pp booklet, DL card.
    On Ltd GOLD vinyl.
    Two exclusive art prints on 120g designed by David Costa.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Trees (50th Anniversary Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Ltd Edition 4XLP Boxset
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Boxset, 24pp booklet, DL card.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Trees (50th Anniversary Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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    Limited Edition of 100 Po Powell/Hipgnosis signed Photo Art Prints

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  • 4xLP Boxset + Tote Bag + T-Shirt Bundle
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    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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**** LP BOX REPRESS STARTS SHIPPING IN JUNE 2021****

“A beautiful hybrid, Trees found a unique space between intimate folk and freewheeling psychedelia. Musically ambitious yet brilliantly balanced, they have left an enduring legacy for those lucky enough to be in on the secret” Edd Gibson, Friendly Fires

· Beautifully packaged four-disc anniversary edition includes 12” book with liner notes from founder member David Costa and comedian Stewart Lee

· Features two new discs of alternate mixes, early demos, BBC session tracks and 2018 live recordings in London

· Includes lost demos of ‘Polly On The Shore’ and ‘Streets Of Derry’

It’s now over fifty years since Trees’ formation, a band who helped define ‘Acid Folk’, creating a sub-category in the lexicon of record dealers and music critics alike. Earth’s new Trees collection brings together both albums adding shiny alternate mixes of key tracks along with a selection of radio sessions and demos, all sounding brighter and cleaner than ever before.

Trees first album, ‘The Garden of Jane Delawney’ (1970) snuggles nicely into contemporary nu-folkies’ idea of the genre, and shares some of the pastoral-whimsy that characterised The Incredible String Band or Donovan, offset by some stunning interpretations of traditional material and Bias’ own songs, which were somehow part of the tradition Trees had adopted. Readings of ‘Lady Margaret’, ‘Glasgerion’ and the old standard ‘She Moved Thro’ The Fair’, and the extended fade of the group’s own ‘Road’, presage the explosive instrumental duelling that would come to characterise the follow up album, ‘On The Shore’.

There’s a definite shift between the records, the second being darker and more ambivalent. Here Trees don’t tell you what to think. You’re left to formulate your own response to this odd, opaque music.

The ‘Streets of Derry’ session version leans into the brain vibrating drone-groove they somehow found at the traditional tune’s centre. ‘Polly On The Shore’, another traditional tune, is one of the definitive moments of English folk rock.

This special expansive collector’s edition celebrates the bands 50th anniversary.

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released November 13, 2020

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