{"id":569,"date":"2008-04-14T11:20:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2008\/04\/14\/taken-by-trees\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T11:48:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T16:48:48","slug":"taken-by-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/music\/2008\/04\/14\/taken-by-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"~Taken By Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/taken_by_trees.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Taken By Trees\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/Taken_by_Trees_CD.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"348\" alt=\"Taken By Trees - CD\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here comes another great CD, <em>OPEN FIELD<\/em>, in English by a group from Sweden. This time it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Victoria Bergsman  and her solo project band, TAKEN BY TREES.<\/p>\n<p>From 1995 to 2006 she was a founding member and lead singer of that well-established pop collective &#8211; the Concretes.  She was also the female vocalist on the Peter Bjorn and John hit, &#8220;Young Folks&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The vocals on this CD remind me of the Brazilian singer and bassist Isabel Monteiro of the cool 90\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s British group, Drugstore, and also Mazzy Star &#8211; while the music has its own unique relaxed tempo as a result of the many (19) different musicians, and their instruments.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a Chinese music influence in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Cedar Trees\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is really interesting. This lovely, and deceptively simply, and quiet, music made by this new collective &#8211; will make even the hard-hearted swoon.<\/p>\n<p>GRAPHIC DESIGN BY OLOV SUNDSTROM<\/p>\n<p>TAKEN BY TREES, <em>OPEN FIELDS<\/em>, copyright 2007 ROUGH TRADE RECORDS LTD <\/p>\n<p>watch !!:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/overdrive\/?artist=960980&amp;vid=82924\">VICTORIA BERGSMAN sing &#8220;Chosen One&#8221; &#8211; with the Concretes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>sample the music: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/takenbytreesmusic\">TAKEN BY TREES\/myspace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takenbytrees.com\/\">&#8216;HAVE YOU BEEN TAKEN&#8217; &#8211; their official website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here comes another great CD, OPEN FIELD, in English by a group from Sweden. This time it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Victoria Bergsman and her solo project band, TAKEN BY TREES. From 1995 to 2006 she was a founding member and lead singer of that well-established pop collective &#8211; the Concretes. She was also the female vocalist on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}