Ended the week and welcomed the weekend with Hills by Thuja, released on Jewelled Antler in 2001.

"'Hills' is a startling document, a collective of eviscerated dream tones and cavernous psychoacoustics. The unforced, luxuriant development of Thuja's music - a misty fold of keyboard drones, tinkling piano, clusters of percussives, shuttling and scrabbling strings and other things - often asks for metaphor from the natural world."

https://rosehobart.bandcamp.com/merch/thuja-hills-lp

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The Deer Lay Down Their Bones by Thuja, released in 1999 on tUMULt.

Thuja are a quartet based out of San Francisco. They play improvisational music and mostly lay down live takes, no processing. Glenn Donaldson and Stephen Smith were former members of psychedelicists Mirza, sound collagist Loren Chasse has worked with Id Battery, and pianist Rob Reger provides the most distinctive element of the band's sound-- his piano lines add a slight sense of structure to the instrumental meanderings. Thuja don't write songs, per se. Rather, their albums flow together like field recordings of poltergeists romping through abandoned factories. It's intense, sometimes dissonant music, but often highly rewarding. - Emperor Jones

https://www.emperorjones.com/thuja.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27AUWJ9qjA&list=RDh27AUWJ9qjA&start_radio=1

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