Let us start with the beginning, at home on the deck of a farm house, swinging under the porch while kids roast marshmallows over a campfire nearby. the adults - conversing sparsely, drunken with labour and sunsets - dream of lands where seasons of bounty are eternal and the rains plentiful. in this instant, there is no point in competing with the crickets, the evening is theirs to call each other in mating rites; it’s normal, yet mesmerizing. hypnotic doesn't quite cut it to describe the work of LikeATree, since each sound here morphs as it travels, as truth tellers murmur sweet prophecies, beckoning at the door of our souls (if we can stand the presence of strange creatures in our proximity). talking of which, it is now frogs’ turn to sign a lullaby and bid farewell. allow us to pass them softly to dig our way deeper into the woods where the stars drop by to visit each other. is it possible their scintillating light could also bare such a potent growl? what were we to do except join them in their chant…

The drum beat in this Future Montreal artist’s compositions is slow and steady as the pulse of those who risk entering the silence with fierce confidence. at those temples we imagine the blood flow would rise in imitation of the sizzle of sap across the cathedral of branches on new moon nights. a somber soil is the most fertile, therefore we would not dare to confide our desires in skies other than those dark ones. this ceremony we find ourselves invited to partake in is not a feeble attempt, it is rather one felt with every vibrating fibre of our entire beings. the echoing buzz of a distant city somehow reaches us, just as ancient glimmers of colours blink blindly from galaxies dead in glorious explosions. some still care staring back!

On this part of the path, there is no more hand to hold and be held by anymore, the marshes have halted all the others. yet, you knew the bell would summon you alone; that was agreed upon but you forgot why you made that choice. fear shortens your breath for a quick moment and is gone: going onward is a sole evidence. it is probably not considered walking if that is what you believe you are doing while listening to this blossoming producer: dancing is an imperative and no one should worry what one looks like when one replies positively to melodies.

The wetlands lie behind us, a delta. the group reunites as we prepare to dive in an ocean known only through rare rumours. to resist its sirens’ shrill, it’s clear, would render us crazy. hence we comply with this submersion. now cradled into its belly we softly rock as currents flood on by, flying us further into an abyss that wrinkles the skin of the earth. hiccups awaken us in time to steer us back to the surface to come up for air. at last the waves caress our mangled reveries and excitement builds as we climb the beach where we hope we might meet him. alas, he is too upset to receive us… how long must we wait with the uncertainty it may be in vain; how long is patience stretched before we see it as obstinacy?

They are allies, those who made it their mission to ignite you with the searing score of all that is. won’t you trust your proficiency in coping with the pain of loosing something you never were -shed some peels! don’t you want to discover who’s been here before and shelled themselves to fuel your trek along a maddening fine balance between order and chaos? as the story proves, the past lives, and reveals us through suffering it’s fair to say… lest we forget the pleasure of each adventure.﻿ 
released 20 September 2014

Music by LikeATree (Future Montreal)
Artwork by Dugong
Poetic write-up by Etienne Gour (Future Montreal)
Mastering by Colin Barber (Future Montreal) 

Past Lives LP Bandcamp

LikeATree - Past Lives LP (Future Montreal - FM010)

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LikeATree - Bodhi (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - Prisoner Dub (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - Sophrosyne's Paradigm (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - Orgone Cloudbuster (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - Kalyanamitra (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - From Duality To Oneness (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - Yugen (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - Paramnesian Dream (Past Lives LP - FM010)

LikeATree - An Ocean Refuses No River (Past Lives LP - FM010)

To the Elysian plain…where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor heavy storm, nor ever rain, but ever does Ocean send up blasts of the shrill-blowing West Wind that they may give cooling to men. -  Homer, Odyssey (4.560–565)

LikeATree - Elysian Fields

LikeATree - Hand Of Unseen Forces

LikeATree - Indra's Web

LikeATree - As Above So Below

Inspired by Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book High Strangeness
Art: Mind to Machine by Juan Sanders

LikeATree - High Strangeness

LikeATree - Tulku

“Man is something that shall be overcome.  Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.  What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

LikeATree - Singularity (Mix)

Triptych Unio Mystica by Johfra Bosschart (artwork)

The Demiurge

Beatport

11:11(LikeATree & BruddaB) & Dugong - Under The Dead Sea (Smallroom Compilation 01 -  SRM10)

11:11 (LikeATree & BruddaB) & Dugong - DMT (NEVER RELEASED)

Human (Gedankenklang Podcast)

LikeATree - Human Mix

EARTH Song Tribute *With Dugong

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.” - Antonio Porchia

LikeATree - Enter The Void. (Mix)

It is proposed that the widespread and pervasive distinctions between people (race, nation, family, profession, etc., etc.) which are now preventing mankind from working together for the common good, and indeed, even for survival, have one of the key factors of their origin in a kind of thought that treats things as inherently divided, disconnected, and "broken up" into yet smaller constituent parts. Each part is considered to be essentially independent and self-existent.
The notion that all these fragments is separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it. Individually there has developed a widespread feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face of what seems to be an overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going beyond the control and even the comprehension of the human beings who are caught up in it. 
(David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order, 1980)

Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. 
(Leibniz, 1670)

We are a part of Nature as a whole whose order we follow. 
(Spinoza, Ethics, 1673)

LikeATree - Welcome To The HoloMovement (Mix)

“Those who realize their folly are not true fools.” - Chuang Tzu

If you are a fool and are not aware of it… you are an authentic fool.  You are egocentrically identified with illusions and unconsciously experiencing a virtual reality.

On the other hand… if you are wakeful of your folly… you are not a true fool because you are a detached observer of yourself and your experience.  Detached observation is trans-egocentric witness consciousness and there is no illusory identification or virtual reality creation.  You are simply a witnessing consciousness watching your play.  Such wakefulness is holistic experience.  The play of consciousness is but universal folly.  In wakeful holistic experience… we are… all is… one blissful consciousness. - Charles Cannon

LikeATree - Those Who Realize Their Folly Are Not True Fools. (Mix)

As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul...
LikeATree with its branches spreading across the heavens and the roots digging deep into the earth...

The true crisis in the world is not social, political or economic, our crisis is a crisis of consciousness, an inability to directly experience our true nature. An inability to recognize this nature in everyone and in all things. 

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.” 
― Jim Jarmusch

"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid." 
― Franz Kafka

Currently looking for like-minded artists for collaborative projects, please contact me at kubz1111@gmail.com
https://musiclikeatree.bandcamp.com/releases

Currently Released Projects:
Past Lives LP (Future Montreal - FM010) - Full Solo Album
Dugong's Earthquake Music EP (Nu Label - NU042) - Hurricane
Dugong's I Rage For You EP (Lethal Dose - LDR036) - Holy Mountain
Smallroom Compilation 01 (Smallroom - SRM10) - Under The Dead Sea (as 11:11)



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