Pine Cone Temples by Thuja, released on Strange Attractors Audio House in 2005.

"Thuja's albums on Emperor Jones, tUMULT, and a host of CDRs showcase their idiosyncratic improvisations in varying degrees, but none go deeper to
the core of perception as does Pine Cone Temples, Thuja's darkest and most sensitive exploration of inner and outer space to date. By incorporating real-time recordings of natural sounds from their particular surroundings, the four members of Thuja play off each other and the space they inhabit with impeccable instinct, succeeding in creating eerie yet strikingly melodic compositions. The end result is a
total immersion of the senses, for both the player and the listener..." - Strange Attractors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsi0D7kK7jM

#Thuja #StevenRSmith #FreeFolk #Ambient #Drone #JewelledAntler #Music #FieldRecordings #Improvisation

Tunnels To Other Chambers by The Buried Civilizations, released on Jewelled Antler in 2004.

One-off album by members of Thuja, Ov and Franciscan Hobbies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v_YDkKQNXA

#TheBuriedCivilizations #FreakFolk #FreeFolk #Drone #ambient #JewelledAntler #Thuja #Ov #FranciscanHobbies #Music

All Strange Beasts Of The Past by Thuja, released on Emperor Jones in 2002

Brandan Stosuy wrote for Pitchfork:

"Listening to Thuja, it's hard not to imagine a pantomiming circle of witches. Or warlocks, I guess. All Strange Beasts of the Past, the quartet's fourth album, is especially backwoods esoteric.."

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8052-all-strange-beasts-of-the-past/

Review by Ned Raggett

One of the entries in the Jewelled Antler Library series, All Strange Beasts of the Past balances between six shorter selections of improvisation and a lengthy concluding piece, all untitled. It shows the Thuja collective in good creative health, here focusing on calmer, quieter numbers in general, though hardly lacking in the mysterious, almost antique feeling that pervades their work at its best...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yTlJV9tKHE&list=PLpj-LsviZeqzMw9gj4yMEEwFtexW2cShl&index=6

#Thuja #JewelledAntler #FreakFolk #Drone #Ambient #Music

The Jewelled Antler Library, a box set compiling releases on the label of the same name, released in 2008.

"The Jewelled Antler library was originally a 12 month subscription series of 3" CD-r's compiled in 2003."

"With 13 groups, 59 tracks and over 4 hours and 40 minutes of music and sounds, the Jewelled Antler Library box-set brings together experimental music from the U.S., Finland, and New Zealand that ranges from psychedelic, abstract drone, soft psych, noise, folk and field recordings, to the outright strange and bizarre...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JblptZqPyns

#JewelledAntler #Fursaxa #Uton #LorenChasse #Tomes #TheIvytree #HalaStrana #DeadRavenChoir #TheFamousBoatingParty #Claypipe #Muons #Thuja #KemiallisetYstavat #TheWaysofGodtoMan #psychedelia #Drone #Noise #FolkMusic #Finland #FieldRecordings #Music

Suns by Thuja, released on Emperor Jones in 2002.

Chris Dahlen wrote for Pitchfork:

..What's ultimately so pleasing about the sound of Thuja's latest record is the way that they emulate nature, both in the sound-- a wide-open, lo-fi shape, what you'd expect if you recorded a hike in the woods with a ten-dollar Dictaphone-- and in their performance, which like all their work is completely improvised. While their first two records approached the open feel of these recordings, neither of them follows the concept so rigidly as Suns; where their earlier pieces often picked up clear rhythms or patterns, everything here is fluid...

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8049-suns/

#Thuja #Drone #Improvisation #Music #StevenRSmith #FieldRecordings

Ghost Plants by Thuja, released on Emperor Jones in 2002.

Christoper Dare wrote for Pitchfork:

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...

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8050-ghost-plants/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9b0WrY3D3s

#Thuja #Drone #StevenRSmith #EmperorJones #Improvisation #Music

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

#Thuja #JewelledAntler #GlennDonaldson #GregBianchini #LorenChasse #RobReger #StevenRSmith #Ambient #FreakFolk #Music #Drone

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

#Thuja #GlennDonaldson #GregBianchini #LorenChasse #RobReger #StevenRSmith #Drone #Ambient #FreakFolk #Music

In the Winter Light

Digital

#thuja

Canon AV-1 + Kodak Gold 200

#BelieveInFilm #autumn #thuja