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East of Eden by Taken By Trees Released: Sep 08 2009 Label: Rough Trade Get a free "Watch the Waves" 7" when you preorder East of Eden. 7" includes the non-LP track, "Summer Sigh." This offer is available exclusively to mail-order customers who preorder East of Eden, while supplies last.
Taken by Trees is the nom de plume of Victoria Bergsman, previously best known for her work with The Concretes and Peter Bjorn & John’s worldwide smash hit single "Young Folks". East Of Eden follows Taken By Trees debut album Open Field which was released in 2007.
Victoria Bergsman wanted to travel to record in a mysterious, relatively uncharted area avoiding the usual clinical studio experience, which she has always disliked and found to be an uncreative environment. She chose Pakistan. The rhythm, drums and flutes of Pakistani music had long captivated Victoria and this, coupled with a deep admiration for her favorite singers Abida Parveen and the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, helped her choose Pakistan as the place to record her new album. Another attractive factor was her interest in Sufi musicians who play in order to enter a trance like state, using music to transport themselves to another time and place.
Victoria is one of very few Western women, if not the only one, to record in this region, and the bureaucracy, cultural differences and prejudices she had to overcome to see this project through are almost beyond belief. It’s therefore little short of a miracle that this album was recorded at all. The new album will be accompanied by a short film that documents the recording.
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Video: National Geographic Mini-Documentary on Taken By Trees
“For her latest recording project Swedish musician Victoria Bergsman, known by her artist name Taken by Trees, wanted to record in a relatively uncharted location to create an artistic environment that transcended the clinical ambiance of modern recording studios… Through footage filmed in Pakistan and Bergsman’s personal reflections this mini-documentary recounts the project from conception to realization.” –National Geographic.
Watch the National Geographic Mini-Documentary on Taken By Trees’ forthcoming East of Eden (Rough Trade). The new album is due September 8th.
As an extra treat, download a remix of the Taken By Trees single ‘Mystery’ made with love by our Gothenburg friends Air France.
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All about| Taken By Trees
Taken by Trees is the latest project for artist Victoria Bergsman from Stockholm, Sweden. Bergsman was singer-songwriter for The Concretes for eleven years before deciding to leave the band in July 2006.
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Great writeup, I adore Victoria and her music….
-the portastylistic
Taken By Trees - Open Field (2007) *Debut*
The debut album Open Field was recorded in six days; it’s packed with stark, delicate pop melodies. Victoria has the sort of voice that stops you in your tracks and demands you listen. The album features Peter Bjorn and John’s John Eriksson, Electrelane’s Verity Sussman and Andreas Söderström (of Ass and Tape) on guitar.
Victoria appeared in the infectious single Young Folks and released 7” tour single Sweet Child O’ Mine (Sweet Child O’ Mine, Above You), a Guns N’ Roses cover.The album is available through Rough Trade records and the band can be found at www.takenbytrees.com.
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