She had sung previously on stage and in several groups, but wanted to stop. But when the pair found their singing was not working, they asked Moore's girlfriend (and future wife ), Dagmar Krause to sing. They recorded it in Faust's studio with Faust's rhythm section backing them. They said, "we'll take the piss out of pop." Ĭalling themselves Slapp Happy, Moore and Blegvad wrote the song "Just a Conversation" in 20 minutes. Moore obliged and asked his American friend, Peter Blegvad to come to Hamburg and help him write some pop songs. When he presented them with a third album, they rejected it, stating that they wanted something more commercial. Moore had recorded two avant-garde/experimental solo LPs at Faust's studio in Wümme, Bremen, Germany for Polydor Records. Dinosaur Jr.Slapp Happy was formed in 1972 in Hamburg, Germany by British experimental composer Anthony Moore. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come Vampire Rodents - Lullaby Land Rip Rig & Panic - God Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa This Heat - This Heat Mission of Burma - Vs. Nice blog! Here are some good albums I uploaded for other folks, many of them very rare: Lennie Tristano - Descent into the Maelstrom Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated Sun Ra - Strange Strings Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox Jon Hassell - Aka-Dabari-Java Jon Hassell - Dream Theory in Malaya Hash Jar Tempo - Well Oiled Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei David Thomas - Monster Walks the Winter Lake David Thomas - The Sound of Sand David Thomas - Variations on a Theme Dirty Three - Dirty Three Dirty Three - Ocean Songs Dirty Three - Whatever You Love You Are Dirty Three - Horse Stories Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Tortoise - TNT Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r. Packaged in a super deluxe Japanese miniature gatefold style cd sleeve, with a printed obi, and extensive liner notes in English and Japanese!įor more about The Tree People, check Stephen Cohen's own blog: Either way, this is absolutely essential.
Hard to say whether it speaks to the prescience of the Tree People, or just to how much these modern bands have actually been 'borrowing'. Obviously, fans of the current crop of modern folk troubadours will find this absolutely essential, Devandra, Vetiver, Espers, Newsom, whatever your particular poison, the Tree People will fit in frighteningly well. And considering the current love of all things freaky and folky, it's sort of amazing that stuff like this was already being made 27 years ago! Elsewhere, the same jams evolve into more tranquil acoustic dreaminess, with the flutes floating over sweet lilting melodies, but even then, the songs will be peppered with sudden bursts of buzzing slide guitar, or brief squalls of atonal fingerpicking. Very Comus-like at times (especially on track two, "Sliding"), wild steel string excursions, dense tangles of fingerpicked melodies and aggressive strummed riffs, with a definite raga like vibe, all over a smattering of hand drums and tablas, a glorious drifting buzzing steel string dronefolk, that just sounds so incredibly timeless.
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The majority of the record however is spent in full on hippy jam mode. Which definitely gives the songs a subtly dark undercurrent. But even at it's sweetest and softest, the record seems to always have a hint of melancholy, sometimes even a trace of ominous foreboding.
Mostly acoustic guitars, flute and vocals, the Tree People had two distinct sounds, the first, a lilting melancholy moonlit folk, like Cat Stevens or Van Morrison, a gorgeous lazy drawl, rich and lustrous, over simple folk and fluttering flutes, dreamy and gorgeous, sounding like some lost folk classic one minute, a strange "Girl From Ipanema" style shuffle the next. This is so entirely original (especially for the time) and genuine sounding. But keen ears would certainly be able to tell.
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Now, here we are nearly three decades later, and whattaya know? There's a whole movement of modern free folk, 'freak' folk and the like, and if you didn't know better, pretty sure we could pass this off as some strange super limited cd-r by some modern folk revivalists. This disc was originally released as a super limited lp way back in 1979 and managed to quietly disappear. Not to be confused with Doug Martsch's amazing nineties outfit, the Treepeople, -these- Tree People are equally amazing, but are a whole different proposition.
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