Lost in the Trees
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| Ari Picker | guitar/vocals Emma Nadeau | french horn/vox/bells/accordion Drew Anagnost | cello Jenavieve Varga | violin Mark Daumen | tuba/bass/bells ...a work of vaulting ambition, a cathedral built on loss and transformation. In the summer of 2009, Ari Picker lost his mother, an artist in her own right, when she took her own life. Picker set about transforming the events into a musical tribute, composing and writing with his mother’s picture above his desk: the same picture that will now grace the album’s cover. “I wanted to give her a space, in the music, to be, and to become all the things she didn’t get a chance to be when she was alive,” Picker says. Trekky Records |
music biography
by William Ruhlmann
Lost in the Trees
is the brainchild of
singer/guitarist
singer/guitarist
Ari Picker,
a Chapel Hill native
who started his career
who started his career
as a member
of the B-Sides.
of the B-Sides.
Picker's studies
at the Berklee College of Music
led him to attempt an orchestral effort,
and he adopted
the moniker
the moniker
Lost in the Trees
for the project.
After assembling a small group of musicians,
he recorded a folk-influenced EP,
Time Taunts Me,
Time Taunts Me,
and released it
on Trekky Records
in early 2007.
on Trekky Records
in early 2007.
School work prevented him
from touring
in support
of the EP's
release,
from touring
in support
of the EP's
release,
and Picker didn't return
to
the
Lost in Trees
project
until
2008,
to
the
Lost in Trees
project
until
2008,
when he graduated
from Berklee
and moved back
to North Carolina.
from Berklee
and moved back
to North Carolina.
Picker began
putting together
a new lineup
for his band,
calling upon several members
of the Trekky Records crew
as well as
putting together
a new lineup
for his band,
calling upon several members
of the Trekky Records crew
as well as
the University of North Carolina's
orchestra program
to help him out.
orchestra program
to help him out.
Once formed,
the group recorded
All Alone in an Empty House,
a lush sophomore album
that featured
strings, horns,
and full orchestration.
strings, horns,
and full orchestration.
The record was released
in 2008
and reissued
two years later,
following the group's signing
with Anti- Records.
with Anti- Records.