And Also the Trees - The Bone Carver - VINYL LP

Saxophonist, producer, and composer Brian Allen Simon channels darker, dreamlike states under his Anenon alias on Dream Temperature, a deeply evocative album that brings electronic processing to the foreground through digitized winds and uncanny atmospherics reminiscent of his mid-to-late 2010s work. A Los Angeles native and longtime resident, Simon follows the revered Petrol (2016), Tongue (2018), and the entirely acoustic Moons Melt Milk Light (2023) with a new focus on wind synthesizer, acoustic piano, and tenor saxophone, with electronics literally driven by his breath and shaped via laptop processing, added textures, and field recordings. Across it's 31 minutes, the record moves between urban grit and pastoral drift, capturing the lingering weight of half-remembered dreams; solo and part-solo piano interludes ('Last Sun 1' and '2') cut through the haze with a tender melancholy, while pieces like 'Nulle Part 1+2' pit saxophone flourishes against noisy drones and digital detritus. Recorded at home at dusk and night between September 2024 and October 2025, Dream Temperature expands Simon's sonic universe-from the compact title track's sub-bass and digital sax rasps to the grittier 'When The Light Appears, Boy' and the enveloping ambience of 'Toyama'-with personal location recordings from Sardinia, Japan, Big Sur, and LA surfacing unexpectedly, resulting in a haunting, elegant coalescence of his electronic and acoustic practices. Album Tracks 1. June Gloom 2. Piano Haze Bass Melt Cry 3. Last Sun 2 4. Dream Temperature 5. Nulle Part 1+2 6. Mirror 7. When the Light Light Appears, Boy 8. Last Sun 1 9. Room Tone 10. Toyama 11. Postscript

Double vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. '(Listen for) The Rag and Bone Man' was the album that marked the renaissance of the band in 2007, bringing them out of the quietest and most hermetic period of their existence and setting them back on course to establishing themselves as the global, underground phenomenon that they are today. This new, remastered, edition includes six previously unreleased pieces, written during the same period but not included on the original album. A work that takes us on a dreamlike journey through dark landscapes coloured by a guitar that brings to mind the trademark sound of their formative years and populated by characters as diverse as the nursery rhyme like 'A man with a drum' to William Faulkners 'Candace'. Album Tracks 1. Domed 2. The Beautiful Silence 3. Rive Droite 4. Mary of the Woods 5. The Way the Land Lies 6. The Legend of Mucklow 7. Untitled 8. Candace 9. Stay Away from the Accordion Girl 10. The Saracen's Head 11. On This Day 12. A Man with a Drum 13. Under the Stars 14. Fellows (Demo) 15. Autumn Girl (Demo) 16. Fold & Fold Again (Demo) 17. Burn (Demo) 18. Keep the Flame (Demo) 19. This Way (Demo)

Vinyl LP pressing. 2024 . And Also the Trees' compelling album, Mother-of-Pearl Moon, was born from a series of extraordinary electric guitar improvisations created by guitarist Justin Jones in the pre- and postdawn hours during a month of solitude in 2020. Each piece then developed in it's own way - the guitar, often left in it's raw, unaltered form, is accompanied by the voice of his brother Simon, bringing imagery and narrative, Colin Ozanne's clarinet and piano adding poise, color and harmony, Paul Hill's percussion creating depth... on occasion an autoharp, a Moog... all leading the listener from the depths of the English countryside far out in all directions of the compass. The music is often filmic, reminiscent of various film genres from the '50s to the '70s. And Also the Trees (AATT) formed during the original post-punk era in rural Worcestershire, an environment that has provided a constant inspiration to a group whose music has often explored the dark underbelly as well as the beauty of the British countryside. They are renowned for their captivating live performances, a unique style of mandolin-like electric guitar, evocative lyrics and dark jazz rhythms - not to mention a creative independence fiercely preserved for over four decades. Album Tracks 1. Intro 2. The Whaler 3. Town Square 4. Mother-Of-Pearl Moon 5. This Path Through the Meadow 6. Valdrada 7. No Mountains, No Horizon 8. Visions of a Stray 9. Field After Field 10. Ypsilon 11. Away from Me