And Also The Trees
And Also the Trees is a post-punk / gothic rock band formed in 1979 in Worc… Read Full Bio ↴And Also the Trees is a post-punk / gothic rock band formed in 1979 in Worcestershire, UK.
The group started in the dawn of the 1980s in Inkberrow, a small village in Worcestershire, far in the countryside. They never had the pressure to move to London. Inspired by the ideology of a still-developing post-punk movement, the band was influenced almost exclusively by the landscape and history of the rural environment that surrounded them.
A home demo tape was sent to The Cure which led to a friendship between both bands. In 1981 And Also the Trees played several shows in support of The Cure's UK tour. Their second demo tape "From Under the Hill" (1982) was partly co-produced with Robert Smith and Mike Hedges.
Their first two single releases Shantell, The Secret Sea and their debut album, simply called "And Also the Trees" was produced by Laurence Tolhurst and was released in 1983. The debut album reflected the early, tentative post-punk roots. They got the attention of John Peel and were invited to do a session on April 7th, 1984 produced by Dale Griffin for broadcast on April 24th.
After a second tour with The Cure in 1984, they severed their musical relationship and developed their very own sound. The EP "A Room Lives in Lucy" (1985) introduced the mandolin-like guitar sound which became their trademark for the next few years. Justin Jones in 1985 on the first releases: "I think our musical progression is similar to that of Joy Division's. If you listen to 'Warsaw' and then 'Joy Division', their awareness of atmosphere increases. Creating an ambience is very important."
Primarily influenced by their rural English environment the band released "Virus Meadow" (1986), an album of rich, pagan melancholy & disturbing laments. There is no sane urbanity here; only heretic nature. And Also the Trees are acutely attuned to their environment: the band employ language to communicate, rather than to satiate.
In the same year the band went on their first European tour of which the live album "The Evening of the 24th" (1987) gives a testimony. Another EP "The Critical Distance" was released in 1987. The violent nature of the material shows a band fighting their way back to creativity from the first creative block they had endured in the time after the release of "Virus Meadow".
With regained inspiration And Also the Trees polished and matured the sound they had began with "Virus Meadow" the following years. Audible proof can be found in the singles "Shaletown" and "The House of the Heart" and the next album "The Millpond Years" (1988) which sees the coming of the keyboard producer Mark Tibenham. The issue of a modern, industrial society carving its way through the heart of a rural idyllic is something that was a prevalent lyrical theme throughout this period in the band's evolution.
This is also true to the highly acclaimed "Farewell to the Shade (1989), an album influenced by personal memories and inspired by poets and painters from the early 19th century. 1989 also saw the single releases of "Lady D'Arbanville", a completely revised Cat Stevens cover of a song the Jones's brothers had grown up with and the French-only 'Misfortunes' single. These years marked their greatest commercial success. With the last albums and exhaustive touring the band created a strong following all over Europe and also got some attention in Japan, far away from the quick fashions of London. The Paris concert in 1989 where the band was playing in front of a huge audience is remembered as one of the most remarkable moments in the bands career.
1990 was a year of introspection with only three European dates. They changed their management, made a US tour (1991) and reactivated contact with The Cure which resulted in the U.S.-only release of the EP The Pear Tree featuring a remix by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders.
In 1992 the band released the last album produced by Mark Tibenham called "Green Is the Sea" in which the keyboard was more prominent. New characters embark on ghost ships, across dangerous seas and drifting by new mirages of love and truth. It is perhaps the band's most accessible work which they promoted with a two-legs European tour including Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France with many sold-out dates.
A hard nucleus of fans pushed them for a digital remastering of their singles and EPs. So "From Horizon to Horizon", a CD collection of primarily single and non-album tracks between 1983-1992 was released.
A new chapter followed in 1993. Elaborated in Cornwall during the tempest of the summer and recorded in front of a wildly furious sea "The Klaxon" features an increasing mix of urban moods. Trumpet, acoustic percussions, mandolin and bright sounds dominate assisted by a Hammond organ. But there's not only urbanization. The bad working streetlights then turn into red sunrises, chaotic intersections become green hills, doves circuit the sky and in lace white fields, we cut the violets and smell the perfume of the corn where time has stopped.
1994 sees the band touring which resulted in the release of the live album 'Le Bataclan' and a tour video from the concert in Hamburg.
In 1995 a project called G.O.L. between Justin Jones and Mark Tibenham along with Antonia Reiner resulted in the electro-ethno-ambient release of the album "Sensations of Tone" and the single "Soma Holiday". The album features a cover version of the early And Also the Trees song 'There Were No Bounds'. Meanwhile Steven and Nick moved to London and Simon to Switzerland.
The band's seventh regular studio album "Angelfish" (1996) sees the band venture deeper into American themes, abandoning the guitar sounds they became synonymous for now mostly using a 50's guitar sound instead. With an increased interest in different forms of American art like painting, literature or different films and directors the band tried to include these influences into the music to create a British perception of "Americana".
"Silver Soul (1998) follows the path of Angelfish using a more heterogeneous approach with more poetry elements present in the lyrics than on the former release and introducing some Jazz influences. Silver Soul takes the listener on a musical and lyrical road-movie through a long deserted street across endless open spaces. References in sound and voice had been made in reviews regarding Chris Isaak and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and is maybe the band's most atypical album. "Silver Soul" was the band's first new release on their own label. With Nailed the band released an EP the same year.
After a five year break And Also the Trees released "Further From the Truth" (2003) recorded in the Worcestershire countryside and co-produced with Matt Devenish. With this album the band left the 50's sound of the predecessors behind and tried what they felt was natural for them to play. With a mellow and again more original sound they returned to their trademark rural romanticism imbued with a newly acquired edginess and realism by means of a much darker tone; recalling emotions of nostalgia drawn on contemporary influences.
In 2004 and 2005 And Also the Trees played a few shows at some huge festivals like the Paleo Festival and the Wave-Gotik-Treffen. They celebrated the 25th anniversary with a best-of "1980-2005" compilation and special shows on a Parisian boat and a celebrated church in Germany.
The long awaited first And Also the Trees live DVD was released August 2005. Next to the show in Geneva from the 'Further From the Truth' tour it features three music video films: \21 York Street, The Untangled Man and Hard Stone Day. The individually numbered digi-packaged DVD was a small mail-order only release.
November 2007 saw the release of "(Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man", their latest album. It takes us on a dreamlike journey through dark landscapes populated by stray nursery rhyme characters, mysterious women who peer into the psyche and pools of light that appear like reflections of their pastoral upbringing. The album was recorded on the estate of an 11th century manor house in rural Herefordshire and finished in a Victorian chapel in the East End of London - settings that exemplify the vividly spectral quality of this album. A policy of using 'real' instruments, including a double bass, zither and piano has resulted in a rich, organic sound, coloured further by a guitar that brings to mind the trademark sound of And Also the Trees' formative years.
Members
Current line-up
Simon Huw Jones - vocals (1979–present)
Justin Jones - guitar (1979–present)
Steven Burrows - bass (1983–present)
Ian Jenkins - bass, double bass (2004–present)
Paul Hill - drums (1997–present)
Emer Brizzolara - keyboards (2007–present)
Former members
Graham Havas - bass (1979-1983)
Nick Havas - drums (1979-1997)
The group started in the dawn of the 1980s in Inkberrow, a small village in Worcestershire, far in the countryside. They never had the pressure to move to London. Inspired by the ideology of a still-developing post-punk movement, the band was influenced almost exclusively by the landscape and history of the rural environment that surrounded them.
A home demo tape was sent to The Cure which led to a friendship between both bands. In 1981 And Also the Trees played several shows in support of The Cure's UK tour. Their second demo tape "From Under the Hill" (1982) was partly co-produced with Robert Smith and Mike Hedges.
Their first two single releases Shantell, The Secret Sea and their debut album, simply called "And Also the Trees" was produced by Laurence Tolhurst and was released in 1983. The debut album reflected the early, tentative post-punk roots. They got the attention of John Peel and were invited to do a session on April 7th, 1984 produced by Dale Griffin for broadcast on April 24th.
After a second tour with The Cure in 1984, they severed their musical relationship and developed their very own sound. The EP "A Room Lives in Lucy" (1985) introduced the mandolin-like guitar sound which became their trademark for the next few years. Justin Jones in 1985 on the first releases: "I think our musical progression is similar to that of Joy Division's. If you listen to 'Warsaw' and then 'Joy Division', their awareness of atmosphere increases. Creating an ambience is very important."
Primarily influenced by their rural English environment the band released "Virus Meadow" (1986), an album of rich, pagan melancholy & disturbing laments. There is no sane urbanity here; only heretic nature. And Also the Trees are acutely attuned to their environment: the band employ language to communicate, rather than to satiate.
In the same year the band went on their first European tour of which the live album "The Evening of the 24th" (1987) gives a testimony. Another EP "The Critical Distance" was released in 1987. The violent nature of the material shows a band fighting their way back to creativity from the first creative block they had endured in the time after the release of "Virus Meadow".
With regained inspiration And Also the Trees polished and matured the sound they had began with "Virus Meadow" the following years. Audible proof can be found in the singles "Shaletown" and "The House of the Heart" and the next album "The Millpond Years" (1988) which sees the coming of the keyboard producer Mark Tibenham. The issue of a modern, industrial society carving its way through the heart of a rural idyllic is something that was a prevalent lyrical theme throughout this period in the band's evolution.
This is also true to the highly acclaimed "Farewell to the Shade (1989), an album influenced by personal memories and inspired by poets and painters from the early 19th century. 1989 also saw the single releases of "Lady D'Arbanville", a completely revised Cat Stevens cover of a song the Jones's brothers had grown up with and the French-only 'Misfortunes' single. These years marked their greatest commercial success. With the last albums and exhaustive touring the band created a strong following all over Europe and also got some attention in Japan, far away from the quick fashions of London. The Paris concert in 1989 where the band was playing in front of a huge audience is remembered as one of the most remarkable moments in the bands career.
1990 was a year of introspection with only three European dates. They changed their management, made a US tour (1991) and reactivated contact with The Cure which resulted in the U.S.-only release of the EP The Pear Tree featuring a remix by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders.
In 1992 the band released the last album produced by Mark Tibenham called "Green Is the Sea" in which the keyboard was more prominent. New characters embark on ghost ships, across dangerous seas and drifting by new mirages of love and truth. It is perhaps the band's most accessible work which they promoted with a two-legs European tour including Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France with many sold-out dates.
A hard nucleus of fans pushed them for a digital remastering of their singles and EPs. So "From Horizon to Horizon", a CD collection of primarily single and non-album tracks between 1983-1992 was released.
A new chapter followed in 1993. Elaborated in Cornwall during the tempest of the summer and recorded in front of a wildly furious sea "The Klaxon" features an increasing mix of urban moods. Trumpet, acoustic percussions, mandolin and bright sounds dominate assisted by a Hammond organ. But there's not only urbanization. The bad working streetlights then turn into red sunrises, chaotic intersections become green hills, doves circuit the sky and in lace white fields, we cut the violets and smell the perfume of the corn where time has stopped.
1994 sees the band touring which resulted in the release of the live album 'Le Bataclan' and a tour video from the concert in Hamburg.
In 1995 a project called G.O.L. between Justin Jones and Mark Tibenham along with Antonia Reiner resulted in the electro-ethno-ambient release of the album "Sensations of Tone" and the single "Soma Holiday". The album features a cover version of the early And Also the Trees song 'There Were No Bounds'. Meanwhile Steven and Nick moved to London and Simon to Switzerland.
The band's seventh regular studio album "Angelfish" (1996) sees the band venture deeper into American themes, abandoning the guitar sounds they became synonymous for now mostly using a 50's guitar sound instead. With an increased interest in different forms of American art like painting, literature or different films and directors the band tried to include these influences into the music to create a British perception of "Americana".
"Silver Soul (1998) follows the path of Angelfish using a more heterogeneous approach with more poetry elements present in the lyrics than on the former release and introducing some Jazz influences. Silver Soul takes the listener on a musical and lyrical road-movie through a long deserted street across endless open spaces. References in sound and voice had been made in reviews regarding Chris Isaak and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and is maybe the band's most atypical album. "Silver Soul" was the band's first new release on their own label. With Nailed the band released an EP the same year.
After a five year break And Also the Trees released "Further From the Truth" (2003) recorded in the Worcestershire countryside and co-produced with Matt Devenish. With this album the band left the 50's sound of the predecessors behind and tried what they felt was natural for them to play. With a mellow and again more original sound they returned to their trademark rural romanticism imbued with a newly acquired edginess and realism by means of a much darker tone; recalling emotions of nostalgia drawn on contemporary influences.
In 2004 and 2005 And Also the Trees played a few shows at some huge festivals like the Paleo Festival and the Wave-Gotik-Treffen. They celebrated the 25th anniversary with a best-of "1980-2005" compilation and special shows on a Parisian boat and a celebrated church in Germany.
The long awaited first And Also the Trees live DVD was released August 2005. Next to the show in Geneva from the 'Further From the Truth' tour it features three music video films: \21 York Street, The Untangled Man and Hard Stone Day. The individually numbered digi-packaged DVD was a small mail-order only release.
November 2007 saw the release of "(Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man", their latest album. It takes us on a dreamlike journey through dark landscapes populated by stray nursery rhyme characters, mysterious women who peer into the psyche and pools of light that appear like reflections of their pastoral upbringing. The album was recorded on the estate of an 11th century manor house in rural Herefordshire and finished in a Victorian chapel in the East End of London - settings that exemplify the vividly spectral quality of this album. A policy of using 'real' instruments, including a double bass, zither and piano has resulted in a rich, organic sound, coloured further by a guitar that brings to mind the trademark sound of And Also the Trees' formative years.
Members
Current line-up
Simon Huw Jones - vocals (1979–present)
Justin Jones - guitar (1979–present)
Steven Burrows - bass (1983–present)
Ian Jenkins - bass, double bass (2004–present)
Paul Hill - drums (1997–present)
Emer Brizzolara - keyboards (2007–present)
Former members
Graham Havas - bass (1979-1983)
Nick Havas - drums (1979-1997)
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And Also The Trees Lyrics
21 York Street I went to York Street Saw the house where I was…
A Room Lives in Lucy Captured in this paradise of light I can only feel lost No…
Anchor Yard She stands beneath the arch in anchor yard And pulls her…
Belief in the Rose The rose bows its head From the hedge to the shade, In…
Blind Opera My dead lords...my dead lords Your strange ringed fingers t…
Count Jefferey For he is Count Jefferey For he is the servant of…
Dialogue Doves circuit the sky. In the room where I woke I heard…
Feeling Fine Feeling high now She says She says I'm feeling high now She …
Genevieve Genevieve living in Velvet Street Turns back the curtains t…
Gone Like the Swallows Balancing on the wind Leaning on the cliff edge wind, in…
He Walked Through the Dew He walked through the dew and his feet were getting…
Headless Clay Woman Under amillion scattered stars >From rippled earth that's cr…
Impulse of Man True or false, the life of man Beneath her dress, so…
In a bed in Yugoslavia Here in this my home Where the light shines through my…
In My House In my house there's a light for our sins There's a…
Jack Jack went out one stormy day To see where his feet…
Jacob Fleet My name is Jacob Fleet. I feel the solid world Revolve ben…
Macbeth's Head How beautiful and unexpected it was To wake and see the…
Maps in Her Wrists & Arms In the tent of powder and lace Vultures pick at a…
Mary of the Woods When I woke I thought of you Looked out of the…
Men of Absolute Oh men of absolute no more The angel's taken back your…
Mermen of the Lea An owl hoots. The moon searches from the sky. pierced with…
Midnight Garden I see it fall, I watch it fall, I let…
Misfortunes I would chase the moons cold eye Into the bitterest day An…
Out of the Moving Life of Circles I could be the money Scattered in the ash You could be…
Pale Sun Through the holes in the green grid I saw a young…
Red Valentino In my stone solemn head I chase the paradise Beyond the st…
Rive Droite I felt her hand open in mine It made me think…
River of Flame River of flame River of flame The lightening is his slave.…
Scarlet Arch Lie in the pale summer heat Find a clock as it…
Scythe & Spade Of all the deaf old bones Sceptre and crown Of all the…
Shaletown On the blue-green rising, falling tide Breathing in the pebb…
Shantell On the blue-green rising, falling tide Breathing in the peb…
Shrine Material folds >From rough, modest clothes Slabs of cold sac…
Simple Tom and the Ghost of Jenny Bailey The day flees the town with a drunkard's yell Silence from…
Slow Pulse Boy Somewhere the blast furnace explodes Plumes of amber in the …
So This Is Silence The boy walked round the jagged rocks caught between ideals …
Stay Away From the Accordion Girl If you see the accordion girl Better walk the other way Unde…
Talk Without Words We look up, silently Without quite music My face four days o…
The Beautiful Silence I came upon a house In a place I'd never been…
The Critical Distance We look up, silently Without quite music My face four days…
The Cyclone Through the back door The cyclone sailed her heart Through…
The Dust Sailor I am the dust sailor Drifting deep on the southern breeze. …
The Fruit Room The jasmine grows In through the walls, Into the fruit roo…
The Headless Clay Woman Under amillion scattered stars >From rippled earth that's cr…
The House of the Heart You stand beneath a racing sky You don't know why you…
The Legend Of Mucklow Waist high in the wild oats Goose-grass burrs on his old…
The Man Who Ran Away There's something in the air An emptiness that creeps alone…
The Millpond Years As a voice beneath the millpond sings >From her past the…
The Reply It's quarter past seven when I hold you A head floats…
The Sandstone Man The sandstone man I feel my head fall to the ground Gaping…
The Saracen's Head But where are you going my little girl Without a candle…
The Secret Sea She swims the secret sea of sleeps cocoon Its soothing hand…
The Ship In Trouble The sails are torn We know only darkness and fear Lost eyes…
The Soul Driver The rain was fresh on the streets The camber of the…
The Street Organ The street organ plays Its blithe tune through the town,, …
The Suffering of the Stream There is a place where she would always be Where the…
The Tease the Tear Your features Looking so happy inside Don't let them see dow…
The Untangled Man Take a breath Take a stride Might bring you happiness Mig…
The Way The Land Lies The old man's come to see The way the land lies…
The Willow Broken are the boughs of the willow She walks beneath them…
The Woodcutter He tried to say That she meant nothing at all, Walk down…
There Was a Man of Double Deed There was a man of double deed Who sowed his garden…
This Ship In Trouble The sails are torn We know only darkness and fear Lost eyes…
Twilights Pool Transparent babies we walk like men Across the marshes and b…
Vincent Craine It was late afternoon She sat watching never come to Vincent…
Virus Meadow Rattled chime, slow ringing echo Roll around in virus meadow…
Wallpaper Dying The cold it penetrates so deep The leaves cry drops of…
Your Guess I can't know you Guess my face my eyes Your Guess is…