Arborea

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Arborea latest Live set on WFMU with host Irene Trudel June 2nd, 2008 (split session with Fern Knight)


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“When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air, you can never capture it again.”- Eric Dolphy


"We should be developing our loyalties to this planet, and this Earth, and our future, our Descendents.....More than we should be to governing political systems that have created all these problems" John Trudell

REVIEWS and PRESS


"Arborea's brand of folk music is ethereal, bone-chilling and beautiful all at once" -Performing Songwriter Magazine

"Maine folk duo Arborea creates timeless music, haunted by deep shadows. Their songs are bathed in shimmering harmonics, spectral slide, and positively spooky banjo. The songs also evoke a kind of mysterious quality, in which you are never quite sure what the songs are about, but they seem to touch a place in your soul that instinctively understands." -Dirty Linen Magazine

"...Shanti and Buck Curran get it right, with memorable songs that linger in the ether long after the last track ends." -Robin Hilton, producer All Songs Considered, National Public Radio


"Magic you can visit, again and again."-Phil McMullen, Terrascope

"A Magical Mystery Tour" - Boston Globe

"Arborea remain singularly breathtaking" - Portland Phoenix

BBC 10 June 2009
"Arborea, who hail from the state of Maine, aren't strictly speaking folk, country, or ambient but during the 32 minutes of their third album, the record drifts smokily somewhere between them all. Husband and wife team, Buck and Shanti Curran, construct a fragile, resonant world with a lingering Americana after-taste, shimmering with the same wide-open spaces Ry Cooder's captured so well on Paris, Texas.
Sounding like frayed, half-remembered, hand-me-down tunes, shaped and altered with each retelling, the fluidity and the sparse application of instruments wherein Eastern and Western modes gently mingle is the secret of this album's startling beauty.
Like other artists operating from the USA's east-coast indie folk scene (Espers, Fern Knight, ex reverie, etc), the music also involves an affectionate backward glance to late 60s/early 70s UK folk rock, itself cross-pollinated by the USA's psychedelic scene.
Whilst it's true that what goes around so often comes around, Arborea's take on all of the above is imbued with its very own distinctive brand of delicate, beguiling minimalism.
Plucked banjo notes on Look Down Fair Moon possesses a koto-like solemnity whilst a hymnal harmonium spreads out radiant lines of melody, slowly unfurling like the sun at the start of a summer's day on In The Tall Grass. Sometimes Shanti's voice is little more than a frightened murmur, prompting comparisons to Vashti Bunyan, though not everything here is translucent or ephemeral.
A wry sensuality insinuates itself throughout Alligators, and for all her delicacy, Shanti's stylised articulation also carries an unexpected insistence instilled with an underlying menace on Beirut and the hypnotic Dance, Sing, Fight.
Here, her near-whispered reportage takes on an unsettling air, seeping through an intricate web of dulcimer and luminous slide guitar."
-Sid Smith

Member Since:

January 18, 2006

Members:

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Shanti - Vocals, Banjo, Percussion, Guitar, Bowed Strings, Ukelele, Harmonies
Buck - Acoustic guitar, Steel/slide guitar, Electric Guitar, Flutes, Vocals, Bowed Strings, and Banjo
additional: Helena Espvall - Cello
All recording, producing and mixing done by Buck and Shanti
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Influences:

Archaic Folk & Blues, Ingmar Bergman, Swimin' in the Sea, caravans in dark forests, Band of Gypsys, Maine & Sweden, Irish Mountains and Glens, Dublin, Wales, Spanish Castle Magic, Colorado, Skip James, Robbie Basho, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Sandy Denny, Ry Cooder, Pentangle, Martin Simpson, Sinead O'Connor, Gillian Welch, Chris Whitley...

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Sounds Like:

Seadrift - Video made by Shanti and Buck Curran
Onto The Shore - Video made by Buck and Shanti Curran
'River and Rapids' Film by Craig Saddlemire (http://www.roundpointmovies.org/)

'Beirut' live @ Roots and Tendrils filmed by Grace Kendall

'Seadrift' live filmed by Craig Saddlemire

'Arms & Horses' live filmed by Craig Saddlemire

Official video for 'Black Mountain Road' by Francesco Paladino

Arborea live in Valencia, Spain December 2008

Arborea - concierto casero from Zurdos.TV on Vimeo.

Record Label:

Fire Museum,Borne!(Europe),Darla, Apple iTunes