Robbie Basho

photo by Ron May

Buck has curated a tribute to Robbie Basho, a labor of love that will be released by Important Records in early 2010. The record is titled We Are All One, In the Sun and will feature Meg Baird, 2 pieces by Steffen Basho Junghans (to celebrate all of his hard work in keeping the memory of Robbie Bahso Alive), Glenn Jones, Arborea, Cian Nugent, Helena Espvall, Fern Knight, and Rahim Alhaj. There will also be additional tracks by Yair Yona, Joseba Irazoki, and Cam Deas available as part of a digital album version. The album will be dedicated to Jack Rose.

For more info on Robbie Basho visit the Robbie Basho Archives maintained by Steffen Basho Junghans: Basho Archives or go here http://www.bluemomentarts.de/bma/rbasho/en/

and visit Important Records

Jack Rose

Jack Rose, Down in the Green Room, Time of Rivers Festival, Portland Maine Autumn 2007

Jack Rose live at the Hall Mall, Iowa City, IA Arpil 5th, 2006


Jack Rose live in Berlin January 21, 2007

The World has Lost a Great Guy, and one of the Hardest Working and most Brilliant Musicians I've ever known! I'll miss your kindness and hearing your unabashed Honesty when we talked...and the sheer joy of being in a room watching and listening to you merciless and graceful attack on your guitar strings. You could really make a guitar roar like a cannon and sing like a siren. Love You Brother!
~Buck

Jack Rose in Belgium November 2009

Jack Rose @ Chapelle Saint-Roch en Volière from B.RUffian on Vimeo.

Recent Jack Rose performance 11 November, 2009 Liege Belgium at Chapelle Saint-Roch en Voliere

Folk Radio UK Arborea Mix

Photo by Shanti

Folk Radio UK

The Folks at Folk Radio UK recently asked Buck and Shanti to create a mix. Buck has this to say about the mix:

Life can appear to be a mad rush as I let myself get caught up in the maelstrom of living. When I take time to pause, close my eyes, and listen...
A good song can slow down time and radiate with infinite magic. Each song in this collection takes me to that Much needed place.
~Buck

Click here to listen to the mix:
Folk Radio UK Arborea Mix
or go here http://www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/buck-and-shantis-arborea-mix/

or go here to read the introduction
Folk Radio UK Arborea Mix
or go here:
http://www.folkradio.co.uk/index.php/reviews/578-new-mix-buck-and-shanti-arborea

Sean Smith - Death Courier and Light Emitter

"Sean Smith LIVE at the Verdi Club, San Francisco, April 23rd 2009"

"A Bull Emerges from the Ram's Dark Tomb" by Sean Smith (Gnome Live Free Mp3 download) 2009 Download Performance Here
or follow this link http://gnomeliferecords.com/ss_live_free.html

[Painting of Sean (as death courier and light emitter) by Fletcher Tucker.]

Beirut Live @ Roots and Tendrils

'Beirut' live @ Roots and Tendrils
Filmed by Grace Kendall

photo by Shanti Curran


Shanti created this image years ago, altering a photograph in her darkroom, of an image she captured in North Carolina. Her teacher at the time ridiculed the image saying it wasn't photography. It's one of my favorite photos that she has created ~Buck

Early Autumn in Maine

photo by Liam Curran/editing by Shanti Curran

photo taken at the Schoener Preserve, Georgetown Island, Maine

Lewiston Maine

photo/art by Shanti Curran

Lewiston is a Mill Town in Maine that came to prominence during the Industrial Revolution. Shanti created this image, that for me, defines this town's industrial past ~Buck

Arborea S/T Black Mountain Road

Photo by Shanti Curran and Grace Kendall

This was the Photo used for the cover of Arborea's S/T record that was released in 2008 by Fire Museum Records. Shanti imagined this artwork for over a year before this photo was finally Realized.

NPR reviewed the album on 8 September 2009, featuring the song Black Mountain Road
NPR Arborea Feature
or go here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94426447

River and Rapids

Film by Craig Saddlemire

This Little Light of Mine video - Wears the Trousers Odetta Tribute

Film by Craig Saddlemire

iTunes Beautiful Star: Songs of Odetta

Odetta tribute compilation

Arborea is excited to be a part of the 'Wears the Trousers' curated benefit compilation cd 'Beautiful Star': The Songs of Odetta

released November 30, 2009 (download / limited edition CD)

01 Linda Draper, ‘Sail Away Ladies’
02 Ane Brun, ‘If I Had A Ribbon Bow’
03 Gemma Ray, ‘900 Miles’
04 Anaïs Mitchell, ‘All My Trials’
05 Haunted Stereo, ‘Santy Anno’
06 Madam, ‘Waterboy’
07 Sandy Dillon, ‘Can’t Afford To Lose My Man’
08 Ora Cogan, ‘Motherless Child’
09 Josephine Oniyama, ‘The Gallows Pole’
10 Pepi Ginsberg, ‘Beautiful Star’
11 Society Of Imaginary Friends, ‘Another Man Done Gone’
12 Marissa Nadler, ‘All My Trials’
13 Kelli Ali, ‘All The Pretty Little Horses’
14 Katey Brooks, ‘What A Friend We Have’
15 Liz Durrett, ‘Chilly Winds’
16 Arborea, ‘This Little Light Of Mine’

Visit www.myspace.com/songsofodetta
or http://wearsthetrousers.com/ for more info.

October in Maine, Reid Sate Park and Music @ the Hogfarm

Photos by Shanti Curran

Sondra Sun-Odeon @ Hogfarm Bidderford, Maine October 9th, 2009

Photos by Buck Curran/editing by Shanti Curran

Cursillistas at Guthries/Lewiston, Maine

Photo by Shanti Curran Aug, 2009

More photos from the BBC

Arborea on the cover of Rockerilla Magainze

Arborea shares the lineup of feature articles, alongside Tim Buckley and Alice in Chains, in the October/November 2009 issue of Italy's Rockerilla Magazine

http://www.rockerilla.com/

Summer in Maine

Photos by Buck Curran

Much of August was spent at the ocean with our children...taking some time out for ourselves, no music except the wind and the sound of the waves. It was a perfect summer, and this was a perfect memory.

Arborea gets a great write up in the last issue of Performing Songwriter

Arborea was featured in the very last issue of Performing Songwriter magazine. In the 'Just Push Play' section, in the June 2009 issue (Odds and ends that the staff of 'Performing Songwriter' have been obsessing over) Beth Walker wrote:

Husband-and-wife duo Arborea are undoubtedly located on the folkier side of life. And their brand of folk is ethereal, bone-chilling and beautiful all at once. House of Sticks has a very organic feel, as one may imagine simply from perusing some of the song titles - "River and Rapids," "Look Down Fair Moon" and "In the Tall Grass"- and it has the uncanny ability to transport the listener into a vastly different, dreamier world.
~Beth Walker