thanks to the wonderfully eclectic curators over at motel de moka for this great psych/outsider folk playlist featuring the trees community..

“In the summer of our youth in 1970, in the heat and curiousity of Manhattan, we stumbled through the never-locked door of a semi-abandoned building, up four flights of dark and broken steps, we carried the shadows and brokenness of our young lives… Sincere openness and longing carried us from discussion through meditation into prayer… From this personal awakening we stirred to a shared communion, sounded in spontaneous music, whose mystery and magic defied explanation. Most who took part of the early gathering never wanted to leave, including a cult deprogrammer sent by a worried mom.” from http://thetreescommunity.com

“Sometimes it was as if thousands of voices were joining and pouring through our own, like several Mellotrons being played at once in different keys, the music liquid, dynamic, ever changing. One night we might travel along a hot, dusty road in Ancient Egypt, with the sounds of donkey’s hooves and clanging pots. Another night we were adrift in a foggy sea, the boat groaning and creaking and a distant bell tolling. We were part of a living, breathing unrehearsed story — a symphony.” from http://www.somedarkholler.com (the label responsible for re-issuing the trees community’s album “the christ tree”)

also see the trees community myspace.