Video: Taken By Trees Records in Pakistan Documentary
- story Matthew Schnipper
Swede Victoria Bergsman aka Taken By Trees (who you may best know for being the female counterpart to Peter Bjorn and John on “Young Folks”), went to Pakistan to record her upcoming album, East of Eden. She had an occasionally difficult, if not enlightening, experience (as her fixer’s Facebook rant details), but ultimately came out with a lush album (and a cover of Animal Collective’s “My Girls”). Nat Geo spoke to her in a very nice field and cut that with some footage shot recording and elsewhere in Pakistan to compile a short documentary about the album from genesis to completion.
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- posted on Jul 23, 2009 in MUSIC, MUSIC VIDEO
- tags Pakistan, psych/folk, rock, Taken By Trees
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August 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
this is really interesting and i applaud bergmans sense of adventure and cosmopolitanism… to go out to a place in the world that is foreign to her to seek inspiration and do something new with her sound. i felt she was very senstive to the cultural differences by her spoken narrative, but at the same time i think she could have clarified further that it was not so much that she had to have her expectations be “lower” (as she said) but just be different. obviously a pakistani musical aesthetic, espcially in the genres of ghazal and qawwalis which she seemed to be drawing from, approach music making differently than the west. but that should be taken up as equal to and not “lower than” a western approach. also, i wonder if she sourced any of the pakistani artists she worked with?
August 14th, 2009 at 10:57 am
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