Artist: Arborea

Arborea Arborea Fire Museum April 28, 2008 Soundless stories on a drop of sap. Number one: Forewarned, your life consists in being constantly drawn by some kind of pen you cannot fathom. You may sing a little. Number two: You will fall down every day; it is your vital movement. Backward movement, backward sounds. Number three: You [...]

• Arborea - Black Mountain Road

( photo by ZB ) sharron kraus brigid 2008 arborea swan 2008 (française version) Au milieu des souvenirs, enfouis dans ce trou obscur où je me tiens, silencieux et [...]

• Arborea - Swan
• Sharron Kraus - Brigid

A beautiful and stirring second album from the Maine duo of Buck and Shanti Curran, known better as Arborea. Lilting and desolate folk that's as beautiful as it is lonesome; and as their name might suggest tinged with dark earthen overtones. The eponymous album feels almost disconnected from urbanity, the calm dry heat of songs like "Ides of March" choke your throat with the dust of stretched gravel roads, the endless repetition of wheat. Elsewhere the pair turns decisively off the path, with rolling clouds replaced by a canopy of trees and twigs underfoot. The sweet loneliness of isolation mixed [...]

• Arborea - Red Bird
• Arborea - Seadrift

arborea dance, sing, fight 2006 (française version) L'été voyageur s'est arrêté en Ikhtonie. Pendant vingt sept minutes et trois dizaines intenses de secondes. "Je ne m'inquiète pas pour vous, m'a dit le type". A l'arrêt de bus. Je l'interrogeais sur ma future tristesse quand l'été prendrait congé. "Je ne m'inquiète pas pour vous, il vous suffira de remettre le disque dans le lecteur." [...]

• Arborea - Dance, Sing, Fight