Orchards & Caravans

by The Birdtree

Orchards & Caravans cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2003
  • Label: 20 City
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.23/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating within the obscure fringes of the New Weird America movement, the project relies on fragile acoustic instrumentation, tape hiss, and organic field recordings. The highly improvisational and lo-fi nature of the tracks evokes a deep, almost mystical connection to rural environments and archaic folklore. It stands as a prime artifact of the era's profoundly uncompromising and experimental freak folk revival.

Genres

Descriptors: nature

Tracklist

  1. White Sundials Faced The Sun
  2. Pillar Of Clouds
  3. Animals Of The Summit
  4. Red Midnight Raven
  5. The Marsh
  6. Black Rainbows, Part 1 & 2
  7. Everyone Of Us A New Leaf
  8. Mary Ann
  9. Scorpions & Lions
  10. The Bluish Vapor Of Tall Eucalyptus Trees
  11. The Lost Sun
  12. Raven Returns/The Uppermost Forest
  13. Sleeper Under A Tree
  14. Leaffish

Credits

  • The Birdtree - primary artist
  • Glenn Donaldson - bouzouki, guitar, banjo [tenor], drums, tambourine, bells, keyboards [wurlitzer funmaker, casio sk-1], accordion [toy], harmonium, oud [cumbus], performer [pink fuzz], tape [cassettes]
  • Steven R. Smith - drums

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