Treevolution by alyrik

LISTEN TO ALBUM PREVIEW: https://soundcloud.com/alyrik/treevolution-album-preview

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15 years ago, I wrote a haiku (the book is available via the link below*):

"Trees are bending.
They cannot go with the wind,
nor against it"

But now, with this musical album, I declare that the trees have another option — treevolution!

Trees can shed the chains of the soil and turn their roots into legs. Learning from the birds, they can change their leaves into feathers and their crowns into wings. It will take thousands of years of practice for those once bound to the earth to rise and fly alongside the birds. And yet I already hear it: roots pulling free from the ground, crowns humming as they stretch toward the sky, trying to reach the birds in flight.

And I also hear them begin to sing. This album is the song of the trees on their path to freedom.

P. S. There was meant to be a seventh track on this album — Birdness. It was meant to mark the moment when trees become birds. The track was almost finished; it had already been played in clubs and podcasts. But at some point, dissatisfied with the result, I chose to remake it. In the end, nothing came of it, and the earlier version can no longer be restored. Perhaps this is a sign that trees are never meant to become birds…

*The book (in Belarusian): https://lit-bel.org/upload/iblock/c48/c488e0372c71f313a2ef88493e28fdc2.epub

- Remix on DJ Datch:
https://editselect909.bandcamp.com/track/dj-datch-collina-alyrik-remix

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