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An eclectic, all-acoustic blend of folk, jazz, classical and world music.

Tree House creates a musical family tree as diverse as the emerging American culture. John Trevethan, of such progressive electronic groups as Element 115 and Transmuters, Tim Buchanan, of the folky Americana group Tombstone Trailerpark and Brenda Trevethan, a classically trained woodwind player, have found and created a common ground to work within and without. Utilizing instruments both ancient and just recently invented, Tree House weaves a sound where the modern mind can explore and at what it finds, breathe a little deeper.

While engineering the recording of Tombstone Trailerpark's song, "Pages of My Photo Book", John Trevethan proposed to Buchanan on doing a record together in the style of the aforementioned song and the self titled record by Mark Hollis.

They also utilized the Robert Fripp limiting philosophy, "Sitting on a sharp stick", in confining the record to acoustic instruments only, using instruments they were unfamiliar with previously and even writing on a classical guitar missing three strings. Fripp also had another influence on the record when, in a conversation with Trevethan, he asked how they could work in a building (the recording studio) where a 'For Sale' was posted. The song, "All Our Days Are Numbered", is the answer to Fripp's query.

The members of Tree House are arrogant and egotistical, they have actually never met each other and have had to rely on messengers and go-betweens to do such menial tasks as pressing the record button. Projected album release date: February 31, 2012.