Label: Folklore Tapes

当店激推しレーベル英Folklore Tapesの2025年作!!大友良英やSachiko M、Steve Beresford、Seymour Wrightらと共演している英サウンドアーティストBenedict Drew、同レーベル出版の英国フォルクローレに纏わるカセットシリーズ"Ceremonial County Series"に登場しているArianne Churchman、この二者が共作した樹木や森にまつわる民間伝承や神秘を探求し音像化した作品。樹木は菌糸体ネットワークを通して養分を吸収、この養分を音として捉えハルモニウム、アナログシンセ、生楽器にて重層的なタペストリーを構築。牧歌的でありながも奇怪なイメージ作りにも成功。





The Tree of the Left Hand is a journey through folk magic and theory fiction, delving into the folklore and mysteries of trees and woods, searching for future possibilities. We begin at the Tree, through mycelium networks the tree draws up its nutrients, these nutrients are sounds, flashes of musique concrete, minimalism and traditional song; a shared network that lurks deep in the stories of the wood. The tree sings an everlasting circle song and presents us with leaves, but leaves shaped like we have never seen before, leaves shaped like left hands. We notice that these form an archway, and through this we must go.

Through a tapestry of harmonium, analogue synthesisers, acoustic instruments and layered voice, we enter this new world of the left hand, and its visions. This world represents a dream space where everything is reversed and nothing is quite as we know it. We venture through this dream, inhaling its new scent and air, unfolding new dream sequences, new histories, visions and possibilities of being.

Recorded whilst on artistic retreat at Britten Pears Arts in Suffolk, in the haunted bungalow once belonging to artist Mary Potter. With later recordings made in London, and then remotely across Kent and London, with the tree always singing in the background.