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Perfume Tree were originally a group of disc jockeys from Vancouver (Canada) who used to perform live shows at the border between Throbbing Gristle’s industrial music, dub and hip hop. The core of Pete Lutwyche (samples, guitar, beats), Jane Tilley (vocals, guitar) and Bruce Turpin (mix, samples) got together in 1991 and coined the moniker Perfume Tree.
Bell Jar, on the cassette album Dust (Zulu, 1992), and the EP Remote (Zulu, 1993) established their credentials, expanding gradually from a “rockier” song format to a “freer” trance-oriented format that also borrows from hip hop, dub and electronica. The album delivers an ultra-atmospheric pop (sort of Cocteau Twins’ dream-pop stretched into ambient territory like Dead Can Dance could do and adorned with psychedelic overtones a` la Sky Cries Mary).
The Sun’s Running Out (Zulu, 1994) and the EP Fathom The Sky (1995) enhanced the ethereal quality of their music, with cryptic vocals floating over shoegazing wails of guitars, floating dub bass lines, clouds of keyboard effects and hypnotic funky beats.
That style achieved an almost baroque intensity on A Lifetime Away (Zulu, 1995), derivative of Bjork’s quirky pop with a touch of Enya’s atmospheric world-music.
Bell Jar, on the cassette album Dust (Zulu, 1992), and the EP Remote (Zulu, 1993) established their credentials, expanding gradually from a “rockier” song format to a “freer” trance-oriented format that also borrows from hip hop, dub and electronica. The album delivers an ultra-atmospheric pop (sort of Cocteau Twins’ dream-pop stretched into ambient territory like Dead Can Dance could do and adorned with psychedelic overtones a` la Sky Cries Mary).
The Sun’s Running Out (Zulu, 1994) and the EP Fathom The Sky (1995) enhanced the ethereal quality of their music, with cryptic vocals floating over shoegazing wails of guitars, floating dub bass lines, clouds of keyboard effects and hypnotic funky beats.
That style achieved an almost baroque intensity on A Lifetime Away (Zulu, 1995), derivative of Bjork’s quirky pop with a touch of Enya’s atmospheric world-music.
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A Lifetime Away
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Feeler
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Dust
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Never Pass This Way Again
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See Me Smile
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So Far Away
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Flare
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Uneasy
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Shoutbox
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annillusion wrote:
maybe I judged too hurry. Amazing band, very unique
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annillusion wrote:
I'm hearing "Dust", and unless the other albums were compleatly different, this is for sure NOT trip hop
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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
Dust is the only album I have own where I am in passionate love with everyone song. It is a pure and utter masterpiece in every sense of the word.
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THee-BeAtNiK wrote:
:-)
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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
And now they're an obsession.
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CovinS wrote:
As much as I really enjoy their last couple releases, the absence of the awesome bass lines that made their first few so great really inhibit me from thoroughly enjoying them... It's all amazing though.
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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
It has taken me a very long time, but they are growing on me.
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CovinS wrote:
Is it just me or did they take in a few IDM influences for Tide's Out and Feeler?
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MokraNiunia wrote:
anyone have uneasy in mp3? full? mail me please then.
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miss_tremond wrote:
great..just great :)
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
Bell Jar!
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CovinS wrote:
If you dig Perfume Tree, there's a good chance you'll like Cybo. Look her up, it's good stuff.
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CovinS wrote:
I have acquired most of their catalogue... It's stunning
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
brand new group with perfume tree : n i g h t l o u n g e
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CovinS wrote:
AHHHH, the iTunes tracklists are all mistagged and it's driving me nuts. Even Perfume Tree's website lists them in the wrong order -_-
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
I love the subversive, lo-fi atmosphere of Bruce (it's an unlisted outro on Remote). Somehow the wind bells manage to make what's definitely the most creepy song on that EP. When you thought it's over, Bruce Turpin "phones" you and says: Hey, it's me, Bruce. I'm just realigning my chakra and balancing my veins (I have doubts regarding 'veins' though). And then he ends as fast as he "called", with the disturbing sound of the wind bells leaving a scar on your mind.
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CovinS wrote:
Virgin is so beautiful...
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
My precious nightmare jacket!
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DiffusionOfTime wrote:
OMG Flooded is amazingly beautiful...
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Selenaru_Negrea wrote:
A Lifetime Away might just be one of the best trip-hop albums ever made.
News
2 unreleased perfume tree songs for download
13 Apr 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/perfumetree
Hello All,The wheels of life are turning, new lives are starting, and perfume tree is shaking off its long sleep and beginning to work on new material. …
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20 Sep 2006 | from blog.myspace.com/perfumetree
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wired34341 added Perfume Tree to wired34341’s library. Tuesday evening
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Taeronai tagged Perfume Tree with electronic, ethereal and trip-hop. Monday evening
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BatsBelfry-WMBR tagged Perfume Tree with bats in the belfry, ethereal and trip-hop. last week
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ficoaqui tagged Perfume Tree with singer-songwriter, ethereal, electronic and 4 other tags. October 2009
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ficoaqui, ProAnorexia, mollijo and 4 other people added Perfume Tree to their libraries. October 2009
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parfy66 tagged Perfume Tree with ‘flora core’. August 2009
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