ARTiST: Taken By Trees

TiTLE: Open Field

LABEL: RoughTrade

GENRE: Indie

TiME: 34:25 min

SiZE:  42,1 MB

BiTRATE: VBRkbps

RiP DATE: Jun-17-2007

RELEASE DATE: Jun-18-2007

WEBSiTE: www.takenbytrees.com



Track List:



01. Tell Me                                    03:38

02. Julia                                      04:00

03. The Legend                                 03:54

04. Sunshine Lady                              02:29

05. Lost And Found                             02:57

06. Open Field                                 03:17

07. Hours Pass Like Centuries                  01:51

08. Too Young                                  04:30

09. Only Yesterday                             02:38

10. Cedar Trees                                05:11



Release Notes:



Ex-Concrete Victoria Bergsman's new project Taken By

Trees releases a stunning debut.



You may recognise Victoria's utterly unique voice as

that which formerly graced The Concretes. Victoria

was singer and songwriter for that all-girl outfit

for eleven years up until deciding to leave her

bandmates Maria Eriksson and Lisa Milbergin in July

of last year. Then again you may just recognise

Victoria's voice from one of the biggest and most

popular singles of last year - namely, Peter Bjorn &

John's infectious Young Folks single.



Deliberation



Now, after much deliberation and thought, Victoria

has decided to follow her instincts and record a

debut album of her own. Aided and abetted by fellow

Peter, Bjorn & John co-horts Bjorn Yttling on

various instruments and string arrangements and John

Eriksson on all 'very personal' percussion

instruments, marimba and vibraphone. The album also

features guitar by Andreas Soderstrom, plus Verity

Susman from Electrelane, who provided piano

arrangements as well as backing vocals. Victoria and

Bjorn produced the album together.



The name 'Taken By Trees' was chosen for this new

musical adventure partly because of Victoria's

explicit love of trees. Which is illustrated by the

band's website: www.takenbytrees.com which has both

a storytelling 'tree' section and a series of

beautiful photos of outdoor life and particularly

trees. Victoria has clearly returned to the basic

things that she loves in order to move forward

creatively with her music and this inherently

beautiful record is the stunning result. The album

was deliberately recorded in a fast and spontaneous

manner.



Six Days



It was recorded in six days straight with Victoria

refusing the musicians the chance to get to know the

songs too well beforehand in a conscious attempt to

keep the recordings alert, full of energy and not

overcook them. The songs were developed from the

vocal melody up, with only that instrumentation

deemed entirely necessary added, keeping the songs

true to the ideas which inspired them, as Victoria

says: "To see how my voice can stand almost alone".



You'll find Open Field packed with stark, delicate

pop melodies. Victoria has the sort of voice that

stops you in your tracks and demands you listen. Her

hauntingly poignant voice, at times brimming with

uplifting spirit and then by turns disarmingly

plaintive is deeply beguiling. We think it's fair to

say that this is a very very special record, nothing

short of gorgeous in fact.



For more information visit the group's website at:

www.takenbytrees.com as well as the site of her

former band The Concretes here: www.theconcretes.com