Originally produced by David Howells and Tony Cox.
Engineered by Vic Gamm.
Originally recorded March 1970 at Sound Techniques,
Chelsea, London.
'Black Widow' and 'Little Black Cloud Suite' produced by
Bias Boshell and recorded at Unit 2, London, July 2008
Remastered July 2008 by Bias Boshell and Adrian Hardy
at Unit 2, London
Reviewthe remastering (and original mastering of the bonus tracks) of the two trees' albums by bias boshell & adrian hardy have - deliberately - been done to a pretty different sound from previous remasterings: do not throw away or sell your earlier cds until after you've compared them - you may want to keep both!
this remastered, expanded reissue of "trees" is dedicated: "in fondest memory of stephen unwin brown (1948-2008) who was so much more da man than we fools had ever realised. inspired teacher, inspired drummer, consummate friend."
regarding track 12, recorded in july 2008: "black widow is a song of bias's written around the time of the garden of jane delawney but never recorded by us up until now. the remaining four of us gathered to put this down in july this year. with thanks to mark roberts on drums and his sympathy in trying to recreate how unwin might have tackled it."
regarding track 13: "similarly little black cloud (you'll find a bbc version of this on the reissued on the shore) is a very early song by bias which we continually toyed with and never committed to. way too beautiful to ignore any further, we finally decided to commit to this instrumental version recorded in june 2008."
of the two demo versions:
"sadly the original multitracks for this album have long been lost, consigned evidently to the skip at some point."
of she moved thro' the fair, track 10: "an early demo that must have been recorded at bond street in august or september of 1969, with the addition of pipe organ and the unusual effect of an entirely flat lead guitar track. we had yet to explore the use of microtones but got significantly better at this on the road in later times."
of pretty polly, track 11: "...recorded in bond street in august 1969 and we'd evidently not worked out quite how to extend the banjo into the break, other than simply by employing a pair of scissors. celia's ascending vocals throughout the break are, however, truly extraordinary. we're not aware she ever sung across a lead guitar break again, from this moment forward."