Blog: Stereogum

Though the collection's title might make you think of über-American author John Steinbeck, Swedish "Young Folks"/ex-Concretes crooner Victoria Bergsman, aka Taken By Trees, recorded her new album East Of Eden in Pakistan. Once you know that, of course, the title takes on different, non-Salinas, CA resonances. She traveled with an engineer and one musician Andreas Soderstrom, filling in the instrumentation via the help of regional Sufi musicians. (She wanted to work with local female players, but this proved impossible due to various cultural obstacles.) Bergsman says about half of East Of Eden was recorded outside with [...]

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