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The Raven and the Rose - With Guests

by Wisdom of the Trees

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In A Waking Dream (an introduction) - vocals: Jules Hill 00:46
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Dream Queen - vocals: Nigel Boyd Robinson 03:23
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Rambling Man - vocals: Nigel Boyd Robinson 03:47
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On My Merry Way 00:16
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The River's Daughter - vocals: Nigel Boyd Robinson 04:18
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Scarlet Fever (Amor Viva) - vocals: Nigel Boyd Robinson 03:42
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Come Away With Me - vocals: Nigel Boyd Robinson 03:12
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A Waltzing Out The Door 04:06
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Under The Moonlight - performed by: Steve Smith 02:29
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Under The Moonlight (reprise) 01:46
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While You Were Sleeping (I Wrote You a Song) - vocals: Jules Hill 05:07
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I Belong With The Wind In The Grass / Ghost (The Ending) - spoken word: Nigel Boyd Robinson 04:36

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Many thanks to all vocalists and performers for working on this album of songs.

Nigel Boyd Robinson
Steve Smith - soundcloud.com/fiddlinero
Jules Hill - soundcloud.com/julesbury

Most modern music is made for all the wrong reasons, be it the desire to be a career musician or to get that 15 minutes of fame, a means to an end and a very shallow end at that. That is what I appreciate about Wisdom of The Trees and Will Elmore, the man at the heart of these wonderful musical projects, he is the total opposite of that star chasing ethic. Every so often a new album pops up on the radar, no fanfare, no fuss, just a sonic message in a creative bottle being dropped into the ocean to see who will find it and what they will make of it. Music made for all the right reasons, a creative outpouring, the need to communicate, the desire to build something.

And if last time around Fragments of Sound was an eclectic collection of trippy, ambient dance instrumentals, this time the focus is more song based and having gathered a collection of guest vocalists, with Nigel Boyd Robinson taking the lions share and doing a sterling job, to add the required lyrical dimension and the result is a wonderfully smooth, pastoral folktronic journey.

The titles and subject matter suggest some very familiar, traditional motifs being played with but it is the reimagining of these standard forms into hazy, drifting post-folk gems that is the real charm of the album. Come Away With Me plays with buoyant east European grooves and Under The Moonlight revels in 60’s folk revivalism and then you have songs such as Rambling Man which somehow captures a strange, smokey 80’s Hall and Oates pop vibe whilst still staying well within the albums remit. For me it is The River’s Daughter that is the highlight of the collection, a mercurial blend of The Incredible String Band and the bucolic pop of The Lilac Time.

It’s a fantastic collection of music, it shows just one future path of folk toward the potential of the new roots sunrise. Folk music has been with us since the first proto-human banged a stick on a fallen tree trunk to create rhythm and then stuck his finger in his ear to better harmonise with it, and so its reinvention every generation or so is only natural, necessary even. What The Raven and The Rose does so well is help keep the evolutionary forces at work, it may not seem like much but it is the most vital job in the musical landscape.

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released December 28, 2016

Nigel Boyd Robinson
Steve Smith - soundcloud.com/fiddlinero
Jules Hill - soundcloud.com/julesbury

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Wisdom of the Trees UK

www.facebook.com/anotherdawnwisdomofthetrees/

a music project based in the UK.
Main genres are ambient trance folk electronica.

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instruments and sound production.

Jules Hill,
Nigel Boyd Robinson,
Jaime Bullock,
Steve Smith,
Tracey Baker Stewart,
Tom Drexl,
Andrew Barber,
vocalists and musicians who have appeared on tracks
many thanks

background photo location Avebury Wiltshire UK. ... more

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