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trees

by Red Tail Hawk

"Trees" is Red Tail Hawk's 2018 single, released March 2, 2018: a five-minute song in 6/8 with a soaring melody, lush harmonies and a heady groove, born of an unbounded love for nature. Ben Zanfagna wrote it in Ledreborg, Denmark, in the old-growth forest there, and the band tracked this version at Pilot Recording Studios, the converted church studio in Housatonic, Massachusetts, where they also made the EP Magnetic Malaise.

"Trees" was the band's only release between the 2016 album Night Soup and the 2019 remix of "Bilderberg." The cover art, a tree with its roots exposed, sets up the nature-and-man imagery the band carried into the 2020 album Strokes.

Credits. Benjamin Zanfagna (vocals, guitar, baritone saxophone), Mike Gruen (bass), Phil McGowan (drums), Alexander Sandman (guitar, backing vocals) and Tim Phillips (keys, mixing, mastering).

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