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We are Wood to Release Heaven’s People Oct. 26

Posted in Whathaveyou on October 15th, 2018 by JJ Koczan

This is why you sign up for record store mailing lists. I haven’t seen anything about this release of We are Wood‘s debut LP, Heaven’s People, anywhere, but I got the newsletter from Sound Effect Records in Greece and the Swedish band happened to catch my eye in there. A little cursory investigation later and I found the track “When the Bees Made Honey from Edelweiss” on their Bandcamp and a few more on a Soundcloud page, and I’m pretty much hooked. Mellow Stones-via-Velvet Underground psych that’s all sunshine and warmth and just an absolute pleasure on the ears.

The outing is set to see issue through Soundcave Records, and I can’t find much about the label except as a substore through Avantgarde Music specializing in various extremities, so I don’t think that’s related. Either way, they’re linked up with 88mph booking and have a sound suitably back to the future to coincide. The track hit a nerve and I wanted to share it.

Here’s the info from Sound Effect‘s release page. If their Soundcloud dates are anything to go by, the project goes back at least four years:

we are wood

We Are Wood provide the nostalgic euphorical sound of the colourful and mind-altering festivals and spiritual journeys of the late 60s that you were never around to experience first hand first time around. However, with We Are Wood, the circles of time are perfectly looped, and you get to ride a kaleidoscopic sound wave and jump an entirely new tour bus of trippy sounds which these days are more relevant and multi-layered than ever! Leaving you not completely sure of where it will take you, but drop-dead-certain that you wanna go, We Are Wood take you off road and down the spiraling paths of psychedelia, leading towards an entirely new musical era!”

The collective’s first full length release “Heavens’s People”, took more than one year to complete, and contains performances of musicians from some of Gothenburg’s finest acts, including: Den Stora Vilan, IKONS, GOAT, Hills, Lamagaia, SonSon, Cult Of Boyda and URAN. Heaven’s People represents the curiosity of exploring music, blending of different sounds and experimental recording. Tracks such as “LOU REED” and “Härryda Commune” concists of sound collages and editing together multiple takes in an experimental, playful way, an element that is present through out the entire record. While “In The Sun”, “Antelope” and “Can’t Come Back” make a display of the collectives love for “The Wall Of Sound”. “Heaven’s People”, is for you to enjoy, take your favourite seat, close your eyes and have the musical trip you never had!

We Are Wood was formed in Gothenburg, however, members are not sure when it occurred. But with an ever-changing line-up, and unconditional love for music, the collective creates its own version, blends old with new, but also at the same time gazes into the future.

https://www.facebook.com/wearewoodband/
https://wearewoodband.bandcamp.com/releases
https://soundcloud.com/we-are-wood

We are Wood, “When Bees Made Honey from Edelweiss”

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