Hush Arbors is the brainchild of Keith Wood. After years of self-released and small-run CDRs, Wood's debut release is finally available in a wider format. This release follows a successful tour of the Eastern United States opening for Six Organs of Admittance. This CD sees the nine tracks of his first CDR remastered and reborn.
Over these 43 minutes of blissed out forest folk also finds itself knee-deep in organic drones. Wood's high-pitched voice is the focal point which the music swirls around, and these songs emanate from the cosmos like a cathartic release from the sky. But don't be fooled, despite these cosmic aspirations this is music straight from the earth, covered in bark and soaked in soil. Hush Arbors is a relic.
Or perhaps you should just take it from Ben Chasny from Six Organs of Admittance who wrote the liner notes for this reissue:
"The difference between "a scientist" and "scientists" is the difference between speaking to one lonely dude collecting his records from the mail and speaking to humanity. That is a little funny thing.
This music is for you who love your perfect clothes caked in mud. This music is for you who could have been scientists but realized that most scientists are thrown into the back of an anonymous van and sold into slavery for their government. And at that point, you said, "Fuck it. I love the stars and germs and shit, but I'd rather not have a gun to my head."
Hush Arbors is currently touring the UK with Sunburned Hand of the Man and is a regular member of Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice. He will also be touring with Six Organs of Admittance later this year as a regular member of Ben Chasny's backing band.