The Mountains and the Trees

After recovering from the hangover, which by the way was induced after only 4 Kopperbergs, I think I might be a lightweight, I got to thinking about the gig at which caused the hangover. It was a quiet affair at a little bar in Southampton called Hamptons a hubmle little bar. there were three main bands playing, The Hollow orchestra in which a friend from work plays (check them out they are pretty good, http://www.myspace.com/theholloworchestra), a band called My First Tooth (the bass quitar is played by a woman which is the height of cool) and a Canadian guy called The Mountains and the Trees.

I have a little addiction to new music, I get bored easily so you can expect that once a week there I'll be spending my pennies on a new album of some sort. I really enjoy listening to new bands that arn't really 'my thing', its always so much more refreshing when you don't know what to expect. Anyway, the Mountains and the Trees really impressed me, it was just one guy with one of those things that records a bar of 8 or two and loops it, so he was playing all kinds of things himself, even using a violin bow on his guitar strings, very impressive.

So needless to say I bought his album, and the 'Bonus track' is a song called Letter to a freind. The lyrics are so relevant to me at the moment, just the other day I was thinking I should write a letter to a 'friend' of mine, I won't mention names. one of the lines 'the bridges you burned along the way, the smoke can still be seen', seemed so ironic. I'm a strong beleiver that in this world you have to be selfish because you only get one life and you don't get second chances at it. However, some people really are in a world of their own and 'never go out of their way to make somebody elses day' and should expect the same back. At the end of the song, the 'friend' dies, and nobody goes to his funeral so I guess the moral of the story is, don't be so self absorbed that you end up dying alone!

Jon Janes - The Mountain and the Trees.